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Southern Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 610 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,813,438 ratings — published 1960
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 525 times as southern)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,998,239 ratings — published 2009
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 372 times as southern)
avg rating 4.28 — 325,306 ratings — published 1987
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 357 times as southern)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,571,122 ratings — published 2018
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as southern)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,253,163 ratings — published 1936
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as southern)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,348,009 ratings — published 2001
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as southern)
avg rating 3.92 — 293,703 ratings — published 1994
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 118,740 ratings — published 1940
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as southern)
avg rating 3.72 — 185,753 ratings — published 1930
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,015 ratings — published 1929
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 215,742 ratings — published 1986
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 383,887 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as southern)
avg rating 4.28 — 747,975 ratings — published 1982
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 567,699 ratings — published 1996
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 185 times as southern)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,332,744 ratings — published 1885
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 179 times as southern)
avg rating 4.02 — 105,292 ratings — published 1984
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as southern)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,609 ratings — published 1992
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Audio CD)
by (shelved 160 times as southern)
avg rating 3.96 — 87,350 ratings — published 2010
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as southern)
avg rating 3.89 — 296,200 ratings — published 1980
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as southern)
avg rating 3.79 — 304,711 ratings — published 2020
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as southern)
avg rating 3.31 — 289,841 ratings — published 2015
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as southern)
avg rating 3.82 — 37,448 ratings — published 1952
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as southern)
avg rating 4.07 — 107,637 ratings — published 2007
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as southern)
avg rating 4.00 — 147,980 ratings — published 2017
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as southern)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,209 ratings — published 2010
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as southern)
avg rating 3.94 — 66,418 ratings — published 1932
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 559,473 ratings — published 2001
The Peach Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 64,760 ratings — published 2011
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 331,079 ratings — published 2014
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as southern)
avg rating 4.16 — 49,405 ratings — published 1955
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as southern)
avg rating 4.23 — 300,812 ratings — published 2010
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,768 ratings — published 1936
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as southern)
avg rating 4.39 — 40,675 ratings — published 1971
The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 63,623 ratings — published 2010
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as southern)
avg rating 3.89 — 249,463 ratings — published 1997
South of Broad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as southern)
avg rating 3.87 — 50,619 ratings — published 2009
The Moviegoer (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as southern)
avg rating 3.64 — 30,712 ratings — published 1961
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as southern)
avg rating 3.98 — 332,973 ratings — published 1947
Gods in Alabama (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,045 ratings — published 2005
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as southern)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,738 ratings — published 2012
The Sugar Queen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 57,286 ratings — published 2008
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as southern)
avg rating 4.22 — 260,497 ratings — published 2019
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as southern)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,411 ratings — published 1946
Mudbound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as southern)
avg rating 4.06 — 70,157 ratings — published 2008
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as southern)
avg rating 3.96 — 72,929 ratings — published 2011
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as southern)
avg rating 4.47 — 769,425 ratings — published 2022
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as southern)
avg rating 3.52 — 15,412 ratings — published 1972
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as southern)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,011,767 ratings — published 1876
Beach Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as southern)
avg rating 4.19 — 54,546 ratings — published 1995
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as southern)
avg rating 4.40 — 717,551 ratings — published 2017
“Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the language that he uses? Are not our attitudes toward people and events in great part shaped by the very language in which we describe them? When we try to describe one person to another or to a group, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job -- no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.”
― The Language of the American South
― The Language of the American South
“The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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