Here is our selection of 25 Books About the South. This list has been hand selected by our own Southern belle at TheReadingRoom. Steeped with stories of tradition, it represents some of the best classics and popular fiction the South has to offer. It was a hard list of books to choose, but our aim was not to double up too much regarding authors — which is why you will see just a few of the usual suspects missing. We hope though, that this list will guide you through southern tradition and go down as smooth as sweet tea.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
- Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
- The Firm by John Grisham
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- A Death in the Family by James Agee
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flaggby
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
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