Best Southern Books

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Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon
Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon 4.35 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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The Stone Flower Garden
The Stone Flower Garden 3.83 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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Follow the River
Follow the River 4.23 avg rating — 22,889 ratings
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A Separate Country
A Separate Country 3.29 avg rating — 1,987 ratings
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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine 4.23 avg rating — 7,503 ratings
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 140,313 ratings
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays
27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays 3.98 avg rating — 734 ratings
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The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon 3.97 avg rating — 20,544 ratings
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Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever 3.73 avg rating — 56,790 ratings
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The Battle-Ground
The Battle-Ground 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
by: Ted Gioia
4.30 avg rating — 753 ratings
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The Shipping News
The Shipping News 3.88 avg rating — 150,747 ratings
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Blue Willow: A Novel
Blue Willow: A Novel 4.15 avg rating — 899 ratings
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The Reivers
The Reivers 3.77 avg rating — 7,983 ratings
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Enemy Women
Enemy Women 3.76 avg rating — 8,329 ratings
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The Almost Sisters
The Almost Sisters 3.95 avg rating — 28,961 ratings
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Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1955
Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1955 4.49 avg rating — 822 ratings
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Velva Jean Learns to Drive (Velva Jean, #1)
Velva Jean Learns to Drive (Velva Jean, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 4,810 ratings
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A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, #5)
A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, #5) 4.17 avg rating — 8,779 ratings
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Twelve Mile Limit (Doc Ford, #9)
Twelve Mile Limit (Doc Ford, #9) 4.17 avg rating — 3,233 ratings
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A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty 3.93 avg rating — 20,705 ratings
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Lost Lake (Lost Lake, #1)
Lost Lake (Lost Lake, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 37,681 ratings
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Kate Vaiden
Kate Vaiden 3.89 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2)
Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 137,720 ratings
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Crescendo: The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town
Crescendo: The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town 4.14 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux, #9)
Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux, #9) 4.05 avg rating — 7,115 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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Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum
Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Moonlight on the Nantahala
Moonlight on the Nantahala 3.92 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Into the Free (Into the Free, #1)
Into the Free (Into the Free, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
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Murder Boogies with Elvis (Southern Sisters, #8)
Murder Boogies with Elvis (Southern Sisters, #8) 4.30 avg rating — 2,694 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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Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age 3.88 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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Where the River Ends
Where the River Ends 4.19 avg rating — 11,510 ratings
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William Faulkner: Novels 1957–1962
William Faulkner: Novels 1957–1962 4.43 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia
Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia 4.01 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Blood and Money
Blood and Money 4.09 avg rating — 5,656 ratings
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Nature Girl
Nature Girl 3.67 avg rating — 26,495 ratings
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In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night 3.92 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
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The Outsiders
The Outsiders 4.14 avg rating — 1,538,644 ratings
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Big Trouble
Big Trouble 3.85 avg rating — 15,730 ratings
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Heaven's Prisoners (Dave Robicheaux, #2)
Heaven's Prisoners (Dave Robicheaux, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 11,294 ratings
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Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy
Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy 3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Native Tongue (Skink #2)
Native Tongue (Skink #2) 3.97 avg rating — 18,300 ratings
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Blue Asylum
Blue Asylum 3.63 avg rating — 5,926 ratings
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Confederates
Confederates 4.07 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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The Widow of Rose Hill (The Women of Rose Hill Book 2)
The Widow of Rose Hill (The Women of Rose Hill Book 2) 4.61 avg rating — 498 ratings
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One Wore Blue (Cameron Saga: Civil War Trilogy, #1)
One Wore Blue (Cameron Saga: Civil War Trilogy, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 1,698 ratings
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Secretariat Reborn: A Novel (1) (Christian Roberts Series)
Secretariat Reborn: A Novel (1) (Christian Roberts Series) 3.90 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Planter's Daughter (The Women of Rose Hill Book 1)
The Planter's Daughter (The Women of Rose Hill Book 1) 4.50 avg rating — 588 ratings
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The Buzzard Table (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #18)
The Buzzard Table (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #18) 3.91 avg rating — 2,967 ratings
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Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12)
Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12) 4.18 avg rating — 8,062 ratings
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Bad Monkey (Andrew Yancy, #1)
Bad Monkey (Andrew Yancy, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 53,447 ratings
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Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux, #11)
Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux, #11) 4.17 avg rating — 8,728 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (Ballad, #1)
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (Ballad, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 3,716 ratings
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Long Upon the Land (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #20)
Long Upon the Land (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #20) 4.11 avg rating — 2,686 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Death's Half Acre (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #14)
Death's Half Acre (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #14) 3.97 avg rating — 2,580 ratings
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A Diary From Dixie
A Diary From Dixie 3.92 avg rating — 1,349 ratings
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Traveller
Traveller 3.91 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
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The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870
The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 4.29 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Strip Tease
Strip Tease 3.88 avg rating — 17,343 ratings
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Sand Sharks (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #15)
Sand Sharks (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #15) 3.90 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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The Lost Ones (Quinn Colson, #2)
The Lost Ones (Quinn Colson, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 4,310 ratings
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Fever Season (Benjamin January, #2)
Fever Season (Benjamin January, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 1,747 ratings
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The Mermaid Chair
The Mermaid Chair 3.22 avg rating — 88,808 ratings
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Southern Fatality (A Jersey Barnes Mystery #1)
Southern Fatality (A Jersey Barnes Mystery #1) 3.64 avg rating — 196 ratings
370.
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface 4.32 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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Christmas Mourning (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #16)
Christmas Mourning (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #16) 3.90 avg rating — 2,650 ratings
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And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi
And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Last Car to Elysian Fields (Dave Robicheaux, #13)
Last Car to Elysian Fields (Dave Robicheaux, #13) 4.14 avg rating — 6,424 ratings
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic 4.08 avg rating — 163 ratings
375.
Louisiana Power & Light
Louisiana Power & Light 3.71 avg rating — 596 ratings
375.
Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around: A Memoir of Floods, Fires, Parades, and Plywood
Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around: A Memoir of Floods, Fires, Parades, and Plywood 3.76 avg rating — 212 ratings
375.
Bloodline: Five Stories
Bloodline: Five Stories 4.04 avg rating — 439 ratings
375.
Faded Lives
Faded Lives 3.52 avg rating — 82 ratings
375.
Yankee, Go Home
Yankee, Go Home 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
375.
The Great Collapse (Survivors of the Pulse, #1)
The Great Collapse (Survivors of the Pulse, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 126 ratings
375.
A Place Called Wiregrass
A Place Called Wiregrass 3.93 avg rating — 577 ratings
375.
Copper Crown
Copper Crown 3.78 avg rating — 94 ratings
375.
A Diary's House
A Diary's House 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
375.
Deep Enough for Ivorybills (Brown Thrasher Books)
Deep Enough for Ivorybills (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.32 avg rating — 69 ratings
375.
Act Locally
Act Locally
by: S.L. Vail
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
375.
Evidence of Life
Evidence of Life 3.51 avg rating — 1,603 ratings
375.
Delaney's People: A Novel In Small Stories
Delaney's People: A Novel In Small Stories
by: Beth Duke
3.94 avg rating — 748 ratings
375.
Haunted Savannah: The Official Guidebook to Savannah Haunted History Tour Conducted by Cobblestone Tours
Haunted Savannah: The Official Guidebook to Savannah Haunted History Tour Conducted by Cobblestone Tours 3.97 avg rating — 117 ratings
375.
The Albino Album
The Albino Album 3.89 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Safe & Sound
Safe & Sound 3.84 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Overlook
Overlook 3.84 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Delicate Devastation (The Endurers, #3)
Delicate Devastation (The Endurers, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 43 ratings
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illuminating gracie
illuminating gracie 3.98 avg rating — 94 ratings
375.
Light Under the House
Light Under the House
by: Aaron L.
3.69 avg rating — 54 ratings
375.
Not Dead in the Heart of Dixie
Not Dead in the Heart of Dixie 4.23 avg rating — 47 ratings
375.
Learning to Kiss in the Snow
Learning to Kiss in the Snow really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 61 ratings
375.
Killers of the Dream
Killers of the Dream 4.14 avg rating — 556 ratings
375.
South of Reason
South of Reason 4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Todd
Todd 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature
N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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