We were discussing Southern fiction earlier, and I promised you a list. Here it is. I’ve read these and liked them. You may suggest others; I hope you do.
Agee, James / A Death in the Family
Burke, James Lee / the Dave Robicheaux series of books
Capote, Truman / Other Voices, Other Rooms
Conroy, Pat / The Prince of Tides; The Lords of Discipline
Dickey, James / Deliverance
Edgerton, Clyde / Walking Across Egypt; Raney
Faulkner, William / As I Lay Dying; Absalom, Absalom!
Flagg, Fannie / Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Frazier, Charles / Cold Mountain
Gaines, Ernest / The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Gaines, Ernest / A Gathering of Old Men
Gay, William / I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down*
Gibbons, Kaye / A Virtuous Woman; Ellen Foster
Gilchrist, Ellen / Victory Over Japan*
Kidd, Sue Monk / The Secret Life of Bees
Lee, Harper / To Kill a Mockingbird
McCarthy, Cormac / Suttree
McCullers, Carson / The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
McCullers, Carson / The Member of the Wedding
O’Connor, Flannery / Wise Blood; A Good Man Is Hard to Find*
Percy, Walker / The Moviegoer
Powell, Pagett / Edisto
Price, Reynolds / Kate Vaiden; A Long and Happy Life
Smith, Lee / Fair and Tender Ladies; The Devil’s Dream
Stockett, Kathryn / The Help
Styron, William / The Confessions of Nat Turner; Lie Down in Darkness
Taylor, Peter / A Summons to Memphis*
Twain, Mark / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Walker, Alice / The Color Purple
Warren, Robert Penn / All the King’s Men
Welty, Eudora / The Optimist’s Daughter; A Curtain of Green*
* These are short stories.
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