Best Southern Books

Fiction or nonfiction set in the American South or about Southerners
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3.92 avg rating — 258,577 ratings
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4.28 avg rating — 296,641 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 637,358 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 298,214 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 326,143 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 105,667 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 175,593 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 895,266 ratings
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3.71 avg rating — 159,294 ratings
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4.28 avg rating — 76 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 204,882 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 549,620 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 264,762 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 101,932 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 407,343 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 128,780 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 62,046 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 59,908 ratings
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3.67 avg rating — 197,913 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 6,790 ratings
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3.74 avg rating — 90,438 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 42,956 ratings
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4.44 avg rating — 157,443 ratings
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4.28 avg rating — 504,073 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 43,962 ratings
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3.95 avg rating — 82,915 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 59,094 ratings
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3.47 avg rating — 63,912 ratings
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4.03 avg rating — 246,011 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 43,124 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 31,827 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 419,189 ratings
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3.82 avg rating — 17,446 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 8,003 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 17,231 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 237,842 ratings
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4.17 avg rating — 48,576 ratings
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3.51 avg rating — 13,022 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 14,335 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 60,239 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 1,601,625 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 31,272 ratings
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3.82 avg rating — 21,428 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 612,385 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 14,636 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 51,189 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 96,752 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 434,618 ratings
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4.39 avg rating — 38,377 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 43,481 ratings
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3.66 avg rating — 27,766 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 784,588 ratings
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3.63 avg rating — 12,900 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 1,551 ratings
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3.79 avg rating — 30,325 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 46,386 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 9,800 ratings
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4.24 avg rating — 14,300 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 185,060 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 108,221 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 14,805 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 560,057 ratings
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4.38 avg rating — 32,331 ratings
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4.17 avg rating — 247 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 197,493 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 25,210 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 25,619 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 23,291 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 262,018 ratings
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4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings
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3.78 avg rating — 15,039 ratings
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4.19 avg rating — 782,073 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 6,784 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 25,427 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 6,167 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 6,071 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 13,358 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 4,460 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 66,894 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 14,440 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 304,431 ratings
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4.39 avg rating — 1,060 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 113,339 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 4,965 ratings
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765 books · 812 voters · list created July 19th, 2008 by Melissa Delbridge (votes) .
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Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Alright, so it's the Bible Belt and all, but how can the Holy Bible (King James) be part of Southern Literature?!


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Julie add zeitoun


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Julie wrote: "add zeitoun"

Everybody can add books to this list, so feel free to do so yourself, Julie -- just click on the tab "add books," above next to "all votes" and then select any and all books you want to add, either from your own bookshelves or by performing a search from among Goodreads's database.


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Julie Thanks!! Julie


message 5: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl Uh, deleting Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.....


message 6: by Garth (new)

Garth My vote is for Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine.

Whenever I hear someone rave about The Help, I suggest they read Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. The Help has good parts, but on the whole Your Blues Ain't Like Mine -- a novel based on the Emmett Till murder -- seems so much more realistic and honest about how horrible conditions were for African-Americans in the 1950s South.

Here's a post I wrote about the novel for Newsworthy Novels, a blog that matches novels to today's headlines and events (this entry was for Black History Month): http://newsworthynovels.blogspot.com/...


message 7: by Zoe's Human (new)

Zoe's Human The Good Earth removed... because it happens to Chinese people... in China... which I'm very confident is not now and has never been a part of the American South... wtf...

On a side note, it is an amazing book.


message 8: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Apr 06, 2015 02:15AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Michelle wrote: "The Good Earth removed... because it happens to Chinese people... in China... which I'm very confident is not now and has never been a part of the American South... wtf...

Here's another one... As far as I know, The Shipping News (currently #277) is not set in the American South but in Newfoundland, Canada.


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