Mississippi Writers - Best 100 books by

1.
The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,149 ratings
2.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,272 ratings
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire 3.98 avg rating — 328,885 ratings
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Light in August
Light in August 3.94 avg rating — 65,244 ratings
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The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch 3.96 avg rating — 1,010,550 ratings
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie 3.74 avg rating — 141,053 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,473 ratings
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 4.06 avg rating — 63,551 ratings
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter 3.83 avg rating — 45,894 ratings
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The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating — 950,568 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,017 ratings
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The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter 3.52 avg rating — 15,055 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,288 ratings
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A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 820,163 ratings
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The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer 3.64 avg rating — 30,278 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,441 ratings
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The Firm
The Firm 4.06 avg rating — 634,760 ratings
18.
The Ponder Heart
The Ponder Heart 3.63 avg rating — 2,227 ratings
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The Little Friend
The Little Friend 3.48 avg rating — 79,051 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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The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.20 avg rating — 8,257 ratings
22.
The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text
The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text 3.77 avg rating — 6,498 ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville 4.44 avg rating — 13,429 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,306 ratings
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The Reivers
The Reivers 3.77 avg rating — 7,983 ratings
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My Dog Skip
My Dog Skip 4.02 avg rating — 2,177 ratings
27.
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War 3.99 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
28.
Delta Wedding
Delta Wedding 3.61 avg rating — 3,773 ratings
29.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,375 ratings
30.
The Client
The Client 4.06 avg rating — 458,522 ratings
31.
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories 4.06 avg rating — 26,126 ratings
32.
Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses 3.93 avg rating — 10,440 ratings
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son 3.99 avg rating — 523 ratings
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The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker 4.01 avg rating — 204,107 ratings
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Sanctuary
Sanctuary 3.63 avg rating — 14,460 ratings
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Fay
Fay 3.99 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
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Rivers (Rivers, #1)
Rivers (Rivers, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
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The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 5,832 ratings
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The Last Gentleman
The Last Gentleman 3.81 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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Native Guard: Poems
Native Guard: Poems 4.20 avg rating — 4,698 ratings
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Snopes: A Trilogy
Snopes: A Trilogy 4.37 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Hell at the Breech
Hell at the Breech 4.06 avg rating — 2,750 ratings
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Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 556,230 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings
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The Tilted World
The Tilted World 3.87 avg rating — 6,002 ratings
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Love in the Ruins
Love in the Ruins 3.82 avg rating — 4,264 ratings
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Miss Jane
Miss Jane 3.94 avg rating — 5,824 ratings
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Wolf Whistle
Wolf Whistle 3.98 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Why I Live at the P.O.
Why I Live at the P.O. 4.13 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,382 ratings
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Suddenly Last Summer
Suddenly Last Summer 3.94 avg rating — 7,607 ratings
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Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories 4.10 avg rating — 2,226 ratings
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One Writer's Beginnings
One Writer's Beginnings 4.07 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian 4.54 avg rating — 7,474 ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox 4.55 avg rating — 7,325 ratings
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Joe
Joe 4.17 avg rating — 3,630 ratings
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The Testament
The Testament 3.91 avg rating — 124,580 ratings
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Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.24 avg rating — 7,824 ratings
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The Courting of Marcus Dupree
The Courting of Marcus Dupree 4.30 avg rating — 237 ratings
60.
The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War
The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War 3.99 avg rating — 618 ratings
61.
The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)
The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)
by: Greg Iles
4.23 avg rating — 40,657 ratings
62.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust 3.74 avg rating — 6,155 ratings
63.
Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)
Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 260,850 ratings
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Shiloh
Shiloh 4.10 avg rating — 5,587 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
66.
Flags in the Dust
Flags in the Dust 3.90 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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Requiem for a Nun
Requiem for a Nun 3.54 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,666 ratings
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The Hard Times
The Hard Times 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Chamber
The Chamber 3.85 avg rating — 144,923 ratings
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Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2)
Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 137,705 ratings
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Crimes of the Heart
Crimes of the Heart 3.80 avg rating — 7,374 ratings
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The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 19,930 ratings
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The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War
The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War 3.97 avg rating — 612 ratings
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The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White
The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White 3.80 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America 4.22 avg rating — 5,752 ratings
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The Robber Bridegroom
The Robber Bridegroom 3.50 avg rating — 1,603 ratings
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A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories 4.01 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
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The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity 4.13 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Civil War: A Narrative
The Civil War: A Narrative 4.53 avg rating — 8,028 ratings
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Losing Battles
Losing Battles 3.61 avg rating — 625 ratings
81.
One Mississippi
One Mississippi 3.71 avg rating — 4,667 ratings
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The Golden Apples
The Golden Apples 3.80 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Heavy
Heavy 4.47 avg rating — 43,662 ratings
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Into the Free
Into the Free 3.95 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
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Bellocq's Ophelia
Bellocq's Ophelia 4.28 avg rating — 831 ratings
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Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoirs
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoirs 4.37 avg rating — 354 ratings
88.
Mortal Fear
Mortal Fear
by: Greg Iles
4.02 avg rating — 11,207 ratings
89.
Where Is Joe Merchant?
Where Is Joe Merchant? 3.87 avg rating — 4,405 ratings
90.
Blood Memory
Blood Memory
by: Greg Iles
4.16 avg rating — 17,983 ratings
91.
Taps
Taps 3.98 avg rating — 309 ratings
91.
A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season
A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
93.
Big Bad Love
Big Bad Love 4.10 avg rating — 2,327 ratings
94.
The Pelican Brief
The Pelican Brief 4.06 avg rating — 442,641 ratings
95.
Good-Bye, My Lady
Good-Bye, My Lady 4.27 avg rating — 128 ratings
96.
A Miracle of Catfish
A Miracle of Catfish 4.16 avg rating — 760 ratings
97.
Winter: Notes from Montana
Winter: Notes from Montana
by: Rick Bass
4.07 avg rating — 2,287 ratings
98.
Pelican Road
Pelican Road 4.04 avg rating — 194 ratings
99.
Oh, Promised Land (Dabney Family Saga #1)
Oh, Promised Land (Dabney Family Saga #1) 4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War 4.09 avg rating — 282 ratings
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