447 books
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South Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as south)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,878,787 ratings — published 1960
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as south)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,018,892 ratings — published 2009
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as south)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,621,298 ratings — published 2018
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as south)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,352,198 ratings — published 2001
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as south)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,256,383 ratings — published 1936
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as south)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,930 ratings — published 1929
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as south)
avg rating 3.31 — 290,836 ratings — published 2015
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as south)
avg rating 3.92 — 295,070 ratings — published 1994
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as south)
avg rating 3.72 — 186,862 ratings — published 1930
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as south)
avg rating 4.28 — 751,751 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as south)
avg rating 3.99 — 386,227 ratings — published 1937
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as south)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,353 ratings — published 1940
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as south)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,336,511 ratings — published 1885
61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
by (shelved 28 times as south)
avg rating 4.13 — 100,584 ratings — published 2010
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as south)
avg rating 4.00 — 148,555 ratings — published 2017
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as south)
avg rating 4.28 — 326,537 ratings — published 1987
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as south)
avg rating 4.26 — 216,521 ratings — published 1986
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as south)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,104 ratings — published 1999
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as south)
avg rating 4.06 — 444,588 ratings — published 2016
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as south)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,761 ratings — published 1992
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as south)
avg rating 4.07 — 445,389 ratings — published 1998
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as south)
avg rating 3.94 — 66,710 ratings — published 1932
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as south)
avg rating 3.89 — 297,858 ratings — published 1980
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as south)
avg rating 3.96 — 73,339 ratings — published 2011
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as south)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,958 ratings — published 1936
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as south)
avg rating 3.86 — 568,645 ratings — published 1996
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as south)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,119 ratings — published 2009
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as south)
avg rating 4.47 — 790,304 ratings — published 2022
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as south)
avg rating 3.93 — 385,335 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as south)
avg rating 4.25 — 307,399 ratings — published 2019
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as south)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,017,997 ratings — published 1876
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as south)
avg rating 3.89 — 249,965 ratings — published 1997
Bel Canto (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as south)
avg rating 3.94 — 322,111 ratings — published 2001
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as south)
avg rating 3.98 — 490,086 ratings — published 1987
Mudbound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as south)
avg rating 4.06 — 70,252 ratings — published 2008
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as south)
avg rating 4.31 — 270,889 ratings — published 1979
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as south)
avg rating 4.48 — 116,831 ratings — published 2010
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as south)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,599 ratings — published 1946
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as south)
avg rating 4.16 — 49,698 ratings — published 1955
The Moviegoer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as south)
avg rating 3.64 — 30,882 ratings — published 1961
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as south)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,103,715 ratings — published 1967
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as south)
avg rating 4.30 — 580,608 ratings — published 1969
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as south)
avg rating 4.26 — 332,174 ratings — published 2014
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as south)
avg rating 4.05 — 115,492 ratings — published 1995
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as south)
avg rating 3.84 — 45,119 ratings — published 2003
Cold Sassy Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as south)
avg rating 4.02 — 105,397 ratings — published 1984
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as south)
avg rating 3.82 — 37,735 ratings — published 1952
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as south)
avg rating 4.12 — 854,172 ratings — published 2020
Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as south)
avg rating 3.77 — 621,080 ratings — published 2009
“Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury. ”
― Monday Mourning
― Monday Mourning
“It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.”
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother













