Best Southern Books
Fiction or nonfiction set in the American South or about Southerners
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list created July 19th, 2008
by Melissa Delbridge (votes) .
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Nov 19, 2009 08:22AM
Alright, so it's the Bible Belt and all, but how can the Holy Bible (King James) be part of Southern Literature?!
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Julie wrote: "add zeitoun"
Everybody can add books to this list, so feel free to do so yourself, Julie -- just click on the tab "add books," above next to "all votes" and then select any and all books you want to add, either from your own bookshelves or by performing a search from among Goodreads's database.
Everybody can add books to this list, so feel free to do so yourself, Julie -- just click on the tab "add books," above next to "all votes" and then select any and all books you want to add, either from your own bookshelves or by performing a search from among Goodreads's database.
My vote is for Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine.
Whenever I hear someone rave about The Help, I suggest they read Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. The Help has good parts, but on the whole Your Blues Ain't Like Mine -- a novel based on the Emmett Till murder -- seems so much more realistic and honest about how horrible conditions were for African-Americans in the 1950s South.
Here's a post I wrote about the novel for Newsworthy Novels, a blog that matches novels to today's headlines and events (this entry was for Black History Month): http://newsworthynovels.blogspot.com/...
Whenever I hear someone rave about The Help, I suggest they read Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. The Help has good parts, but on the whole Your Blues Ain't Like Mine -- a novel based on the Emmett Till murder -- seems so much more realistic and honest about how horrible conditions were for African-Americans in the 1950s South.
Here's a post I wrote about the novel for Newsworthy Novels, a blog that matches novels to today's headlines and events (this entry was for Black History Month): http://newsworthynovels.blogspot.com/...
The Good Earth removed... because it happens to Chinese people... in China... which I'm very confident is not now and has never been a part of the American South... wtf...
On a side note, it is an amazing book.
On a side note, it is an amazing book.
Michelle wrote: "The Good Earth removed... because it happens to Chinese people... in China... which I'm very confident is not now and has never been a part of the American South... wtf...
Here's another one... As far as I know, The Shipping News (currently #277) is not set in the American South but in Newfoundland, Canada.
Here's another one... As far as I know, The Shipping News (currently #277) is not set in the American South but in Newfoundland, Canada.
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