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

New Releases Tagged "Southern"

The Southern Sorority of Superstitious Witches
Paper Ghosts
We Already Dug the Grave
In the Woods They Wait
Falling for Peachtree Bluff (Peachtree Bluff #5)
Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion
Judge Stone
All the Sinners Bleed
Paper Ghosts
The Storm
Road Trip
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
The Foursome
Falling for Peachtree Bluff (Peachtree Bluff #5)
The Mountains We Call Home (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #3)
Summer State of Mind
Dominion
The Witch's Orchard
The Women of Oak Ridge
Leave It Up To Love
The Help by Kathryn StockettA Time to Kill by John GrishamCrossing Lake Pontchartrain by Arthur  ByrdThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerClub Dead by Charlaine Harris
Books Set in Mississippi
403 books — 105 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Gothic Literature
359 books — 527 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeLowcountry Boil by Susan M. BoyerThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Neon Rain by James Lee BurkeBootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
Best Southern Mysteries
223 books — 129 voters
The Raven Boys by Maggie StiefvaterThe Dream Thieves by Maggie StiefvaterThe Casquette Girls by Alys ArdenBeautiful Creatures by Kami GarciaCompulsion by Martina Boone
Southern Paranormal YAs
103 books — 110 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
The Color Purple
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)

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

“ You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?" "Not at all," Cindy Lou answers. "Daddy freed him." Ron's jaw almost hits the floor. His wine glass does. ...more ”
― Daven Anderson, Vampire Syndrome

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