Best Southern Books

Fiction or nonfiction set in the American South or about Southerners
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4.31 avg rating — 1,218,683 ratings
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4.47 avg rating — 2,828,324 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 277,084 ratings
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4.28 avg rating — 311,806 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 703,480 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 1,307,830 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 316,090 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 356,058 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 112,437 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 185,211 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 172,427 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 954,192 ratings
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4.39 avg rating — 97 ratings
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3.82 avg rating — 56 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 560,372 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 210,720 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 278,723 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 103,964 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 447,864 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 64,232 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 62,953 ratings
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25

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3.68 avg rating — 212,789 ratings
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3.76 avg rating — 96,403 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 135,486 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 45,246 ratings
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4.44 avg rating — 160,868 ratings
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4.29 avg rating — 541,929 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 85,012 ratings
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4.17 avg rating — 46,830 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 61,692 ratings
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3.47 avg rating — 72,826 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 249,897 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 45,353 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 32,901 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 433,263 ratings
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3.82 avg rating — 18,668 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 8,183 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 17,555 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 52,027 ratings
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3.52 avg rating — 14,314 ratings
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3.89 avg rating — 244,674 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 15,057 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 61,525 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 1,729,429 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 34,473 ratings
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3.80 avg rating — 23,874 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 630,030 ratings
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3.95 avg rating — 15,752 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 54,622 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 102,771 ratings
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4.39 avg rating — 39,627 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 449,536 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 45,303 ratings
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3.65 avg rating — 29,238 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 807,577 ratings
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3.63 avg rating — 13,820 ratings
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3.79 avg rating — 31,250 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 48,704 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 25,065 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 10,207 ratings
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4.24 avg rating — 15,763 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 190,643 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 117,669 ratings
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3.71 avg rating — 15,381 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 602,838 ratings
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4.40 avg rating — 36,397 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 22,095 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 320 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 593 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 176,001 ratings
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3.61 avg rating — 3,648 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 203,306 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 63,285 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 26,699 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 28,740 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 28,575 ratings
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4.49 avg rating — 3,383 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 24,284 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 78,829 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 281,381 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 23,109 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 16,359 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 816,009 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 7,126 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 27,955 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 6,297 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 5,189 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 6,186 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 14,507 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 4,806 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 68,905 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 14,983 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 319,305 ratings
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4.39 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 119,033 ratings
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804 books · 817 voters · list created July 19th, 2008 by Melissa Delbridge (votes) .
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Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) 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 add zeitoun


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) 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.


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Julie Thanks!! Julie


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Lobstergirl Uh, deleting Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.....


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Garth 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/...


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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.


message 8: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Apr 06, 2015 02:15AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) 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.


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