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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 614 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,127,063 ratings — published 1960
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 533 times as southern)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,099,272 ratings — published 2009
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 372 times as southern)
avg rating 4.27 — 335,169 ratings — published 1987
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 366 times as southern)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,797,493 ratings — published 2018
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as southern)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,272,004 ratings — published 1936
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as southern)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,373,478 ratings — published 2001
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as southern)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,203 ratings — published 1994
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,215 ratings — published 1940
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as southern)
avg rating 3.72 — 194,561 ratings — published 1930
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 201,772 ratings — published 1929
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as southern)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,884 ratings — published 1937
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 221,408 ratings — published 1986
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as southern)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,521 ratings — published 1982
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 571,757 ratings — published 1996
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 186 times as southern)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,354,289 ratings — published 1885
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 184 times as southern)
avg rating 4.02 — 106,362 ratings — published 1984
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as southern)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,217 ratings — published 1992
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Audio CD)
by (shelved 160 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 89,261 ratings — published 2010
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 157 times as southern)
avg rating 3.78 — 338,907 ratings — published 2020
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as southern)
avg rating 3.81 — 40,083 ratings — published 1952
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as southern)
avg rating 3.31 — 296,715 ratings — published 2015
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as southern)
avg rating 3.89 — 308,661 ratings — published 1980
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,309 ratings — published 2017
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 142 times as southern)
avg rating 4.07 — 110,635 ratings — published 2007
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as southern)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,680 ratings — published 1932
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as southern)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,131 ratings — published 2010
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as southern)
avg rating 4.26 — 339,143 ratings — published 2014
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as southern)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,717 ratings — published 1936
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as southern)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,608 ratings — published 1955
The Peach Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,609 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as southern)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,462 ratings — published 1971
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 566,294 ratings — published 2001
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as southern)
avg rating 4.24 — 312,750 ratings — published 2010
The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as southern)
avg rating 3.97 — 64,713 ratings — published 2010
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as southern)
avg rating 3.89 — 252,655 ratings — published 1997
The Moviegoer (Vintage International)
by (shelved 116 times as southern)
avg rating 3.64 — 32,079 ratings — published 1961
South of Broad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as southern)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,067 ratings — published 2009
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as southern)
avg rating 3.98 — 341,734 ratings — published 1947
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as southern)
avg rating 4.46 — 906,396 ratings — published 2022
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as southern)
avg rating 4.21 — 279,059 ratings — published 2019
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as southern)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,903 ratings — published 1946
Gods in Alabama (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as southern)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,353 ratings — published 2005
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as southern)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,237 ratings — published 2011
Mudbound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as southern)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,252 ratings — published 2008
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as southern)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,503 ratings — published 2012
The Sugar Queen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 102 times as southern)
avg rating 3.99 — 58,181 ratings — published 2008
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as southern)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,046,189 ratings — published 1876
Beach Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as southern)
avg rating 4.19 — 56,830 ratings — published 1995
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as southern)
avg rating 3.52 — 16,225 ratings — published 1972
The Calamity Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as southern)
avg rating 4.62 — 392,102 ratings — published 2026
“Peach butter, peach leather, peach cobbler, peach pie, peach sonker, peach marmalade, brandied peaches, pickled peaches, peach sherbet, peach cordial, peach bread, and an archaic curiosity, peach quiddany, all appear in the earliest Southern journals, household diaries, and cookbooks. A recipe for ratafia dating from 1830 calls for one thousand peach kernels to be soaked in madeira wine.”
― The Best American Food Writing 2022: A Curated Collection of Mouthwatering and Comforting Culinary Articles
― The Best American Food Writing 2022: A Curated Collection of Mouthwatering and Comforting Culinary Articles
“There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr. Fruit had resisted all efforts to reorder what he had been doing perfectly well for many years. He had not only monitored the comings and goings of the town, his presence softened the ingrained evil that flourished along the invisible margins of the town’s consciousness. Any community can be judged in its humanity or corruption by how it manages to accommodate the Mr. Fruits of the world. Colleton simply adjusted itself to Mr. Fruit’s harmonies and ordinations. He did whatever he felt was needed and he did it with style. “That’s the Southern way” my grandmother said. “That’s the nice way.”
― The Prince of Tides
― The Prince of Tides
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