Southern

Southern literature (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region. Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one’s role within it, a sense of justice, the region's dominant religion (Christianity) and the burdens/rewards religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, a sense of social class and place, and the use of the Southern dialect.

New Releases Tagged "Southern"

Porch Lights
While We Were Watching Downton Abbey
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life
Board Stiff (An Elliott Lisbon Mystery, #1)
That Old Flame of Mine
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Secrets Over Sweet Tea
A Hunger in the Heart

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  • Virtue by Allison Bassen
    Virtue
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    Release date: Apr 27, 2013
    MOVE OVER FIFTY SHADES...THERE'S A NEW BOOK IN TOWN CALLED VIRTUE

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    Giveaway dates: Apr 24 - May 24, 2013
    10 copies available, 750 people requesting
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  • The Hazards of Skinny Dipping by Alyssa Rose Ivy
    The Hazards of Skinny Dipping
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    Release date: May 21, 2013
    *New Adult Romance*

    This isn't a deep book about first loves or self-discovery. If you want a book like that, I'd be happy to recommend one, but I don'…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: Apr 04 - May 24, 2013
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  • The Baker's Man by Jennifer Moorman
    The Baker's Man
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    In her enchanting debut novel, Jennifer Moorman invites you to a whimsical little Southern town where magic floats on every breeze and is baked into e…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: Apr 25 - May 24, 2013
    3 copies available, 1372 people requesting
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  • Dead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse, #13)
    Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12)
    The House Girl
    Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse, #11)
    The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
    Calling Me Home
    A Land More Kind Than Home
    The Girl Who Chased the Moon
    Home
    The Restorer (Graveyard Queen, #1)
    The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
    The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life
    The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
    Roses
    The Dry Grass of August
    Slow Heat in Heaven by Sandra BrownThe League for the Suppression of Celery by Wendy RussDream Man by Linda HowardGiving Chase by Lauren DaneLadybugs and Fireflies by Cheryl Alldredge
    Great Contemporary Southern Romances
    26 books — 15 voters
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
    Best Southern Books
    335 books — 445 voters

    A Rush of Wings by Adrian PhoenixIn the Blood by Adrian PhoenixHalfway to the Grave by Jeaniene FrostBeneath the Skin by Adrian PhoenixEtched in Bone by Adrian Phoenix
    Paranormal in New Orleans
    180 books — 199 voters
    Southern Mystical Moments by Patricia H. GrahamMoonlight on the Nantahala by Micheal RiversHillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun... by Patricia H. GrahamGhosts of the North Carolina Shores by Micheal RiversPast, Present, and Promises by Patricia H. Graham
    North Carolina Setting and/or Author
    118 books — 90 voters

    Popular Southern Books

    The Help
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    The Secret Life of Bees
    Gone with the Wind
    Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
    Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
    The Sound and the Fury
    As I Lay Dying
    The Prince of Tides
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

    Clyde Edgerton
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.
    Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

    Nancy B. Brewer
    He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck. (from Carolina Rain, by Nancy B. Brewer)
    Nancy B. Brewer, Carolina Rain

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