Mississippi Writers - Best 100 books by

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Smonk
Smonk 3.64 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy 4.20 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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The Night of the Iguana
The Night of the Iguana 3.86 avg rating — 5,764 ratings
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Desperation Road
Desperation Road 4.05 avg rating — 3,587 ratings
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What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell
What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell 4.32 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty 3.94 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Soil
Soil 3.38 avg rating — 685 ratings
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Country Churchyards
Country Churchyards 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir 4.25 avg rating — 22,440 ratings
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Jubilee
Jubilee 4.37 avg rating — 6,826 ratings
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The Runaway Jury
The Runaway Jury 4.03 avg rating — 312,178 ratings
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The Miss Firecracker Contest
The Miss Firecracker Contest 3.41 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4) 3.90 avg rating — 128,893 ratings
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North Toward Home: A Memoir
North Toward Home: A Memoir 4.10 avg rating — 763 ratings
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Rock Springs
Rock Springs 4.06 avg rating — 5,688 ratings
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta 4.22 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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A Story of Deep Delight
A Story of Deep Delight 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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So Red the Rose (Southern Classics Series)
So Red the Rose (Southern Classics Series) 3.44 avg rating — 84 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
120.
The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists
The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists 4.30 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Mother of Pearl
Mother of Pearl 3.70 avg rating — 20,440 ratings
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Knight's Gambit
Knight's Gambit 3.50 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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Domestic Work: Poems
Domestic Work: Poems 4.20 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Wildlife
Wildlife 3.72 avg rating — 4,374 ratings
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The Heaven of Mercury
The Heaven of Mercury 3.57 avg rating — 866 ratings
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A Multitude of Sins
A Multitude of Sins 3.76 avg rating — 1,601 ratings
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Women With Men: 3 Stories
Women With Men: 3 Stories 3.64 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
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Uproar: Antiphonies to Psalms
Uproar: Antiphonies to Psalms 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Apostles of Light (Banner Books)
Apostles of Light (Banner Books) 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Thrall
Thrall 4.13 avg rating — 1,679 ratings
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Eudora Welty: Photographs
Eudora Welty: Photographs 4.44 avg rating — 349 ratings
132.
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy 4.18 avg rating — 299 ratings
132.
Danube Defiance
Danube Defiance 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Bycatch
Bycatch 4.47 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Black Wings Has My Angel
Black Wings Has My Angel 4.13 avg rating — 3,530 ratings
136.
The Ranger (Quinn Colson, #1)
The Ranger (Quinn Colson, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 6,999 ratings
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Secrets in the Vines
Secrets in the Vines 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Mississippi: conflict & change
Mississippi: conflict & change 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer 3.91 avg rating — 433 ratings
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D'Leaux, Mississippi: Life From Moss to Tuckertown
D'Leaux, Mississippi: Life From Moss to Tuckertown 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism 4.30 avg rating — 1,955 ratings
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Bats Out of Hell
Bats Out of Hell 4.08 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Blackwood
Blackwood 3.69 avg rating — 1,941 ratings
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Gray Mountain
Gray Mountain 3.67 avg rating — 106,190 ratings
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Dirty Work
Dirty Work 4.16 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother
Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother 4.32 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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The Fog Machine
The Fog Machine 4.08 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause"
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause" 4.35 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Squall in the Gulf
Squall in the Gulf 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
147.
Deep South (Anna Pigeon, #8)
Deep South (Anna Pigeon, #8) 3.97 avg rating — 9,039 ratings
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Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History 4.24 avg rating — 576 ratings
152.
Midnight on the Marne
Midnight on the Marne 4.06 avg rating — 575 ratings
154.
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,111 ratings
154.
How We Came to Be
How We Came to Be 4.42 avg rating — 48 ratings
156.
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales (Banner Books)
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales (Banner Books) 3.51 avg rating — 249 ratings
156.
Everything You've Been Taught is Wrong
Everything You've Been Taught is Wrong 3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Contrition
Contrition 3.52 avg rating — 50 ratings
159.
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works 4.49 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,721 ratings
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Cradle in the Oak
Cradle in the Oak 4.02 avg rating — 56 ratings
162.
Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)
Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4) 4.12 avg rating — 265,560 ratings
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Crazy in Alabama
Crazy in Alabama 3.96 avg rating — 5,562 ratings
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Mississippi and the Great Depression
Mississippi and the Great Depression liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
162.
Katrina, Mississippi: Voices from Ground Zero
Katrina, Mississippi: Voices from Ground Zero 4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings
166.
Nick
Nick 3.14 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
167.
The Lower Mississippi (Rivers of America, #19)
The Lower Mississippi (Rivers of America, #19) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Brethren
The Brethren 3.77 avg rating — 99,710 ratings
168.
Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell
Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell 3.45 avg rating — 76 ratings
168.
Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 22,113 ratings
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That Woman From Mississippi
That Woman From Mississippi 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War 3.55 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South 4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings
173.
Monument: Poems New and Selected
Monument: Poems New and Selected 4.39 avg rating — 690 ratings
175.
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy 3.82 avg rating — 250 ratings
176.
Death's Excellent Vacation
Death's Excellent Vacation 3.72 avg rating — 10,479 ratings
176.
Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta 4.65 avg rating — 91 ratings
178.
Many Bloody Returns
Many Bloody Returns 3.75 avg rating — 14,320 ratings
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From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715
From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715 3.70 avg rating — 64 ratings
180.
An Apple for the Creature (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
An Apple for the Creature (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) 3.87 avg rating — 8,024 ratings
180.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.30 avg rating — 827 ratings
180.
Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s (American Made Music Series)
Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s (American Made Music Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
183.
Tap Roots (Dabney Family Saga #2)
Tap Roots (Dabney Family Saga #2) 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings
183.
After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse
After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse 3.08 avg rating — 17,850 ratings
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We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi
We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi 4.49 avg rating — 162 ratings
186.
Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard, #1)
Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 28,463 ratings
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Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers: Memories of Mississippi 1964–65
Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers: Memories of Mississippi 1964–65
by: Jim Dann
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
188.
Shakespeare's Champion (A Lily Bard Mystery, #2)
Shakespeare's Champion (A Lily Bard Mystery, #2) 3.84 avg rating — 17,859 ratings
188.
Airships
Airships 4.02 avg rating — 3,179 ratings
188.
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967 (American Made Music Series)
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967 (American Made Music Series) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
191.
The Velvet Doublet
The Velvet Doublet 3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
191.
Shakespeare's Christmas (Lily Bard, #3)
Shakespeare's Christmas (Lily Bard, #3) 3.89 avg rating — 15,993 ratings
191.
One Time One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : A Snapshot Album
One Time One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : A Snapshot Album 4.43 avg rating — 90 ratings
194.
The Civil War
The Civil War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
194.
Shakespeare's Counselor (Lily Bard, #5)
Shakespeare's Counselor (Lily Bard, #5) 3.92 avg rating — 14,234 ratings
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Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement 3.62 avg rating — 511 ratings
197.
Poachers: Stories
Poachers: Stories 3.98 avg rating — 2,206 ratings
197.
The Lily Bard Mysteries Omnibus (Lily Bard, #1-5)
The Lily Bard Mysteries Omnibus (Lily Bard, #1-5) 4.19 avg rating — 1,096 ratings
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues (American Made Music Series)
Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues (American Made Music Series) 3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Recruit
The Recruit 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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