21st Century Southern Literature

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Fay
Fay 3.99 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,392 ratings
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My Reading Life
My Reading Life 3.95 avg rating — 8,190 ratings
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Cherry
Cherry
by: Mary Karr
3.80 avg rating — 10,498 ratings
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Milk Blood Heat
Milk Blood Heat 4.02 avg rating — 9,850 ratings
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Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home
Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home 4.16 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Swamplandia!
Swamplandia! 3.28 avg rating — 59,352 ratings
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Mostly Dead Things
Mostly Dead Things 3.37 avg rating — 20,774 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,454 ratings
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The Sleeper: A Novel
The Sleeper: A Novel 3.33 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Tradition
The Tradition 4.23 avg rating — 10,006 ratings
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The Campfire Boys
The Campfire Boys 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Atlanta Noir (Akashic Noir)
Atlanta Noir (Akashic Noir) 3.54 avg rating — 402 ratings
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A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life 4.36 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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News of the World
News of the World 4.08 avg rating — 110,563 ratings
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Valentine
Valentine 3.76 avg rating — 43,512 ratings
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Heavy
Heavy 4.47 avg rating — 43,666 ratings
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South of Broad
South of Broad 3.87 avg rating — 50,102 ratings
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Flight Behaviour
Flight Behaviour 3.82 avg rating — 100,175 ratings
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Sleepovers: Stories
Sleepovers: Stories 4.13 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Provinces of Night
Provinces of Night 4.20 avg rating — 2,879 ratings
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Mustard, Milk, and Gin
Mustard, Milk, and Gin 4.23 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Red Lanterns
Red Lanterns 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land 4.08 avg rating — 118 ratings
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A House of Branches
A House of Branches 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Florida
Florida 3.77 avg rating — 34,599 ratings
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Eat Only When You're Hungry
Eat Only When You're Hungry 3.23 avg rating — 2,265 ratings
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The Greats of Cuttercane: The Southern Stories
The Greats of Cuttercane: The Southern Stories
by: Terry Kay
4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Valley of Light: A Novel
The Valley of Light: A Novel
by: Terry Kay
3.97 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Special Kay: The Wisdom of Terry Kay
Special Kay: The Wisdom of Terry Kay
by: Terry Kay
4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Lot
Lot 3.75 avg rating — 10,180 ratings
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We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration 4.30 avg rating — 335 ratings
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An American Marriage
An American Marriage 3.93 avg rating — 379,556 ratings
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Tentmaking: Poems and Prose Paragraphs
Tentmaking: Poems and Prose Paragraphs 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Scrapwood Man: Poetry & Prose
Scrapwood Man: Poetry & Prose did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Hummingbird Sleep: Poems, 2009-2011
Hummingbird Sleep: Poems, 2009-2011 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 (A Brown Thrasher Books Original)
Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 (A Brown Thrasher Books Original) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Colors of Africa
Colors of Africa really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes
Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes 3.48 avg rating — 255 ratings
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A Little Salvation: Poems Old and New (Brown Thrasher Books)
A Little Salvation: Poems Old and New (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch
Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch 4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings
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We Almost Disappear
We Almost Disappear 4.12 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Waltzing Through the Endtime
Waltzing Through the Endtime 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Meaning of Consuelo
The Meaning of Consuelo 3.60 avg rating — 809 ratings
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The Cruel Country
The Cruel Country 4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer 3.84 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon
Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon 4.37 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
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Death & the Days Light
Death & the Days Light 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South
Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South 3.97 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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The Complete Poems of James Dickey
The Complete Poems of James Dickey 4.71 avg rating — 31 ratings
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James Dickey: The World as a Lie
James Dickey: The World as a Lie 3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Please
Please 4.38 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The New Testament
The New Testament 4.24 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir 4.25 avg rating — 22,444 ratings
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Monument: Poems New and Selected
Monument: Poems New and Selected 4.39 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Domestic Work: Poems
Domestic Work: Poems 4.20 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Bellocq's Ophelia
Bellocq's Ophelia 4.28 avg rating — 831 ratings
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Congregation, Poems
Congregation, Poems 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Native Guard: Poems
Native Guard: Poems 4.20 avg rating — 4,698 ratings
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Thrall: Poems
Thrall: Poems 4.13 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
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Conversations with Natasha Trethewey (Literary Conversations Series)
Conversations with Natasha Trethewey (Literary Conversations Series) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast 3.94 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Seam Busters
Seam Busters
by: Mary Hood
4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Far Beyond the Gates
Far Beyond the Gates 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of William Bartram
The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of William Bartram 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Elegies for the Water
Elegies for the Water 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Distant Flame: A Novel
A Distant Flame: A Novel 4.27 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams
Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams 3.91 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Hank Hung the Moon and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts
Hank Hung the Moon and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts 3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Dogs Buried over the Bridge: A Memoir in Dog Years
The Dogs Buried over the Bridge: A Memoir in Dog Years 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana
Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana 3.65 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Leaving Atlanta
Leaving Atlanta 4.05 avg rating — 6,667 ratings
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Street Singers, Soul Shakers, Rebels with a Cause: Music from Macon
Street Singers, Soul Shakers, Rebels with a Cause: Music from Macon 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance 4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom 4.17 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Southern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 27)
Southern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 27) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains
Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,302 ratings
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Son of Real Florida: Stories from My Life
Son of Real Florida: Stories from My Life 4.27 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf
Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Dancing at the Waffle House: and Other Stories Neal Boortz Wishes He Had Told
Dancing at the Waffle House: and Other Stories Neal Boortz Wishes He Had Told 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Alive and Loose in the Ordinary: Stories of the Incarnation
Alive and Loose in the Ordinary: Stories of the Incarnation 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Behind the Moss Curtain, and Other Great Savannah Stories
Behind the Moss Curtain, and Other Great Savannah Stories 3.30 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from an Atlanta High School
Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from an Atlanta High School 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Atlanta Stories: Fables of the New South
Atlanta Stories: Fables of the New South
by: G.M. Lupo
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Current That Carries: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
The Current That Carries: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Juelz: Wisdom Sayings and Stories from Men of Hope with Martha Sterne
Juelz: Wisdom Sayings and Stories from Men of Hope with Martha Sterne it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Long-Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee
Long-Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee 4.14 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories
Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories 3.41 avg rating — 541 ratings
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The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee
The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings
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After Oconnor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia
After Oconnor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic 4.08 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Orange World and Other Stories
Orange World and Other Stories 3.97 avg rating — 6,568 ratings
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Like: Poems
Like: Poems 4.07 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Archaic Smile
Archaic Smile 4.45 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Hapax
Hapax 4.22 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Olives
Olives 4.27 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Poems of the American South (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
Poems of the American South (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) 3.62 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance
Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance 4.50 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class 4.35 avg rating — 43 ratings
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