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Southern

Southern literature (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region. Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one’s role within it, a sense of justice, the region's dominant religion (Christianity) and the burdens/rewards religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, a sense of social class and place, and the use of the Southern dialect. ...more

New Releases Tagged "Southern"

The Bog Wife
The House at Watch Hill (The Watch Hill Trilogy, #1)
This Cursed House
Model Home
Every Moment Since: A Novel
Compound Fracture
Bad Liar (Broussard and Fourcade, #3)
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
The Empress of Cooke County
This Is Why We Lied (Will Trent, #12)
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)
Broken Bayou
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
The Moonflowers
Summers at the Saint
All the Sinners Bleed
The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)
Bad Liar (Broussard and Fourcade, #3)
The Boys from Biloxi
The Book of Lost Friends
A Happier Life
The Bog Wife
Midnight at the Blackbird Café
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Gothic Literature
309 books — 483 voters
The Syndrome by Paul RegaBikenomics by Elly BlueTrail of 32 by Paul RegaThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinThe God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Novels by Paul Rega
6 books — 3 voters

Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraThe Far Pavilions by M.M. KayeThe Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Best 1800s Historical Fiction
470 books — 285 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Great Books of Southern Fiction
378 books — 445 voters

Devil's Creek by Todd KeislingBelow by Laurel HightowerAntioch by Jessica   LeonardSecret Santa by Andrew ShafferThe Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert
Gettin' F*cky in Kentucky
10 books — 1 voter
The Help by Kathryn StockettGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca WellsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Southern Chick Lit
282 books — 237 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Help
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Where the Crawdads Sing
Gone with the Wind
The Secret Life of Bees
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Prince of Tides
The Color Purple
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear. ...more
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There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr. Fruit had resisted all efforts to reorder what he had been doing perfectly well for many years. He had not only monitored the comings and goings of the town, his presence softened the ingrained evil that flourished along the invisible margins of the town’s consciousness. Any community can be judged in its humanity or corruption by how it manages to accommodate the Mr. Fruits ...more
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