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, 344 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
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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
    Dead Until Dark by Charlaine HarrisWould-Be Witch by Kimberly FrostBarely Bewitched by Kimberly FrostCrux by Moira RogersInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
    Southern-fried & Paranormal
    25 books — 5 voters
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerLight in August by William Faulkner
    Best Southern Gothic Literature
    72 books — 72 voters

    Shadowed Demise by Maryanne M. WellsLiving Dead in Dallas by Charlaine HarrisThe Accommodation by Jim SchutzeKinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky FriedmanYucatecans in Dallas, Texas by Rachel H. Adler
    Books Set In Dallas
    16 books — 2 voters
    The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Wayward Gifted - Broken Point by Donna K. ChildreeThe Help by Kathryn StockettDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
    Southern Goodness
    106 books — 42 voters

    Death In Dahlonega by Deborah MaloneThe Bitter Berry by Bettie SellersAuraria by Tim WestoverFable in the Blood by Byron Herbert ReeceThe Hiking Trails of North Georgia by Tim Homan
    North Georgia Books
    27 books — 3 voters

    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
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Charles Frazier
    Charles Frazier Nightwoods
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    Kellie Elmore, Magic in the Backyard

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    It's summer and time for wandering...
    Kellie Elmore, Magic in the Backyard

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