Florida


Their Eyes Were Watching God
Swamplandia!
Florida
The Nickel Boys
A Land Remembered
Hoot
Skinny Dip (Skink, #5; Mick Stranahan #2)
Paper Towns
Bad Monkey (Andrew Yancy, #1)
Nature Girl
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Tourist Season
The Orchid Thief
Stormy Weather (Skink #3)
Double Whammy (Skink #1)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Best Southern Literature
1,348 books — 2,576 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloA Land Remembered by Patrick D. SmithThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsSwamplandia! by Karen Russell
Best Books Set in or About Florida
825 books — 341 voters


Laura van den Berg
In Florida I count cats. I first started counting the cats--a mix of strays and outdoor pets with collars and bells--while walking the dog and soon realized that we are hopelessly surrounded. Cats lounge on driveways and front lawns, crouch like gargoyles on porch railings and fence post, lurk in the bushes and under cars and behind trees, peer out from underneath crawl spaces. The derelict houses in the neighborhood appear to have been overtaken by cats--they crowd the decaying front porches, u ...more
Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise

Damon  Thomas
A rich man dug up a paupers' grave. Down on the Dixie coast. Bodies found washed up on the shore were moved inland. And the rich got richer. People talked haunting. They spoke of ghosts. But that man lived a long life. Dedicated to the pursuit of material gain. Then died himself. There was no Divine retribution. No supernatural justice. Just a lot of people speaking ill of the dead. ...more
Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

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