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. ...more

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The Calamity Club
Summer State of Mind
The Foursome
A Brewed Awakening
Miss Beth Bettencourt: A Bynum, Georgia Novel
Trouble's Turn to Lose (Carolina Tales, #3)
Judge Stone
The Storm
Road Trip
Summer State of Mind
The Foursome
All the Sinners Bleed
The Lies They Told
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Summers at the Saint
Leave It Up To Love
Beach House Rules
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3)
Dominion
The Forget-Me-Not Library
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShutePicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Fictitious Australia
484 books — 125 voters

Daddy's Game by Normandie AllemanDaddy Morebucks by Normandie AllemanSilent We Stood by Henry ChappellKinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky FriedmanDallas Noir by David Hale Smith
Books Set In Dallas
32 books — 29 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
837 books — 749 voters

32 Candles by Ernessa T. CarterThe Coldest Winter Ever by Sister SouljahTryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made by Virginia DeBerryFlyy Girl by Omar TyreeThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Best Black/African American Chicklit
433 books — 403 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggGarden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Quirky Southern Fiction
982 books — 1,930 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Where the Crawdads Sing
Gone With the Wind
The Secret Life of Bees
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Prince of Tides
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Color Purple
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)

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