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Books Every Southerner Should Own

Caroline Rogers

July 7, 2017 at 6:14 PM

The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Beloved by Toni Morrison

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

A Death in the Family by James Agee

Cane by Jean Toomer

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The Metamorphoses by Ovid

The Odyssey by Homer

Walden and “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau

Add these classics to your bookshelf, pronto.

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