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Serious Southern Fiction
Notable fiction set in the American South, dealing with the peculiar steamy decadence of the South.
Related Genres
Family Sagas: The South
Humor: Southern/Small Town
Authors & Titles
- Agee, Jonis: South of Resurrection
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- Allison, Dorothy: Bastard Out of Carolina
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- Arnoult, Darnell: Sufficient Grace
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- Bailey, Tom: Cotton Song
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- Benoit, Brent: All Saints' Day
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- Biguenet, John: Oyster
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- Black, Daniel: They Tell Me of a Home
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- Bradley, John Ed: My Juliet
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- Brown, John Gregory: Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
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- Brown, Larry: Fay
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- Brown, Larry: A Miracle of Catfish
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- Brown, Nic: Floodmarkers
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- Burke, James Lee: Half of Paradise
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- Burke, James Lee: Lay Down My Sword and Shield
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(NOTE: This title is part of the Hackberry Holland series, listed under Regional Mysteries: Texas)
- Burke, James Lee: To the Bright and Shining Sun
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- Burke, James Lee: Two for Texas
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- Caldwell, Erskine: Tobacco Road
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- Cheek, Stephen: Cane and Able
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- Covington, Vicki: Gathering Home
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- Covington, Vicki: Night Ride Home
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- Cox, Elizabeth: The Slow Moon
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- Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (edited by F. Brett Cox & Andy Duncan)
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- Curtiss, Huston: Sins of the Seventh Sister
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- Daugharty, Janice: Whistle
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- Davis, Charles: Drifting South
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- Davis, Rod: Corina's Way
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- Dewberry, Elizabeth: Sacrament of Lies
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- Dexter, Pete: Paris Trout
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- Dickson, Athol: River Rising
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- Downs, Greg: Spit Baths
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- DuFresne, John: Deep in the Shade of Paradise
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- DuFresne, John: Louisiana Power and Light
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- Dunbar, Wylene: Margaret Cape
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- Durban, Pam: The Laughing Place
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- Durban, Pam: So Far Back
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- Durkee, Lee: Rides of the Midway
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- Edgerton, Clyde: The Floatplane Notebooks
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- Edgerton, Clyde: Killer Diller
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- Edgerton, Clyde: Raney
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- Edgerton, Clyde: Walking Across Egypt
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- Elliott, Scott: Coiled in the Heart
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- Eppes, Cindy: South of Reason
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- Faulkner, William: Yoknapatawpha County series
(in no particular order) "...because Faulkner did not catch his characters neatly between book covers but let them ramble with life-like imprecision from book to book, unraveling a satisfactory chronology is a major undertaking--certainly beyond the scope of this bibliography." -Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series by Janet and Jonathan Husband
- Sartoris
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- The Sound and the Fury
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- As I Lay Dying
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- Sanctuary
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- Light in August
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- Absalom, Absalom!
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- The Unvanquished
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- The Hamlet (Snopes Trilogy #1)
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- Go Down, Moses
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- Intruder in the Dust
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- Requiem For a Nun
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- The Town (Snopes Trilogy #2)
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- The Mansion (Snopes Trilogy #3)
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- The Reivers
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- Flags in the Dust
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- Ford, Darnella: Finding Me
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- Frank, Dorothea Benton: Lowcountry series
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- Sullivan's Island
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- Plantation
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- Isle of Palms
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- Shem Creek
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- Pawleys Island
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- Full of Grace
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- The Land of Mango Sunsets
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- Return to Sullivan's Island
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- Lowcountry Summer
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- Gay, William: The Long Home
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- Gay, William: Provinces of Night
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- Gearino, G.D.: Blue Hole
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- George, Anne Carroll: This One and Magic Life
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- Gibbons, Kaye: A Cure for Dreams
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- Gibbons, Kaye: Ellen Foster series
- Ellen Foster
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- The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster
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- Gibbons, Kaye: A Virtuous Woman
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- Gordon, Caroline: The Women on the Porch
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- Gwyn, Aaron: Dog on the Cross
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- Haines, Carolyn: Judas Burning
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- Haines, Carolyn: Penumbra
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- Haines, Carolyn: Summer of the Redeemers
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- Haines, Carolyn: Touched
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- Hall, Barbara: A Better Place
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- Hall, Barbara: Close to Home
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- Hannah, Barry: Yonder Stands Your Orphan
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- Harris, William C. Jr.: Jesus Island series
- Delirium of the Brave
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- No Enemy But Time
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- Haynes, Melinda: Chalktown
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- Haynes, Melinda: Mother of Pearl
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- Haynes, Melinda: Willem's Field
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- Hazelgrove, William Elliott: Tobacco Sticks
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- Hermes, Myrlin A.: Careful What You Wish For
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- Hill, David: Butterfly Sunday
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- Hill, David: Sacred Dust
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- Hill, Mars: The Moaner's Bench
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- Howard, Ravi: Like Trees, Walking
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- Hurston, Zora Neale: Jonah's Gourd Vine
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- Hurston, Zora Neale: Moses, Man of the Mountain
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- Hurston, Zora Neale: Mules and Men
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- Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
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- Jackson, Joshilyn: Between, Georgia
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- Jackson, Joshilyn: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
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- Jordan, Hillary: Mudbound
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- Kagen, Lesley: Tomorrow River
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- Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees
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- Kingsbury, Suzanne: The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me
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- Lansens, Lori: Rush Home Road
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- Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
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- Lemann, Nancy: Malaise
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- Lott, Bret: A Song I Knew by Heart
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- Malone, Michael: Red Clay, Blue Cadillac
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- Manley, Frank: True Hope
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- Marius, Richard: Bourbon County series
- The Coming of Rain
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- After the War
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- An Affair of Honor
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- Maron, Margaret: Last Lessons of Summer
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- Mayes, Frances: Swan
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- McCarthy, Cormac: The Orchard Keeper
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- McCarthy, Susan Carol: True Fires
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- McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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- McFather, Nell: Southern Secrets
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- Mda, Zakes: Cion
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(NOTE: This title is part of the Toloki series, listed under Race Relations)
- Mitcham, Judson: Sabbath Creek
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- Morris, Michael: Slow Way Home
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- Morris, Scott M.: Waiting for April
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- Morris, Willie: Taps
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- Naslund, Sena Jeter: Four Spirits
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- Neilson, Melany: The Persia Cafe
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- New Stories From the South
- 1986 edition
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- 1987 edition
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- 1988 edition
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- 1989 edition
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- 1990 edition
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- 1991 edition
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- 1992 edition
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- 1993 edition
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- 1994 edition
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- 1995 edition
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- 1996 edition
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- 1997 edition
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- 1998 edition
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- 1999 edition
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- 2002 edition
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- 2003 edition
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- 2004 edition
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- 2005 edition
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- 2006 edition
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- 2007 edition
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- 2008 edition
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- 2009 edition
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- 2010 edition
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- O'Connor, Flannery: Collected Stories
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- O'Connor, Flannery: Everything That Rises Must Converge
- O'Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find and other stories
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- O'Connor, Flannery: Wise Blood
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- Odell, Jonathan: The View From Delphi
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- Parker, Michael: Trent series
- Hello Down There
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- Towns Without Rivers
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- Patrick, Jennifer: The Night She Died
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- Payne, David: Back to Wando Passo
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- Pearson, T.R.: Blue Ridge
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- Percy, Walker: The Last Gentleman
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- Phillips, Gin: The Well and the Mine
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- Piccirilli, Tom: A Choir of Ill Children
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- Price, Reynolds: Great Circle series
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- The Surface of Earth
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- The Source of Light
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- The Promise of Rest
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- Pruett, Lynn: Ruby River
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- Rash, Ron: One Foot in Eden
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- Rash, Ron: Saints at the River
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- Reynolds, April: Knee-Deep in Wonder
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- Reynolds, Sheri: Bitterroot Landing
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- Reynolds, Sheri: Firefly Cloak
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- Reynolds, Sheri: The Rapture of Canaan
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- Rubio, Gwyn Hyman: Icy Sparks
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- Sanders, Dori: Clover
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- Sanders, Dori: Her Own Place
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- Sherman, Dayne: Welcome to the Fallen Paradise
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- Smith, Deborah: On Bear Mountain
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- Smith, Deborah: The Stone Flower Garden
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- Smith, R.T.: Uke Rivers Delivers
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- Spencer, Elizabeth: The Southern Woman
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- Tartt, Donna: The Little Friend
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- Trobaugh, Augusta: Swan Place
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- Vernon, Olympia: Logic
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- Ward, Jesmyn: Where the Line Bleeds
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- Warren, Robert Penn: All the King's Men
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- Watson, Brad: The Heaven of Mercury
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- Watson, Sterling: Sweet Dream Baby
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- Welty, Eudora: Losing Battles
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- White, Susan Rebecca: Bound South
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- Whitney, P.L.: This is Graceanne's Book
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- Williams, Naomi: Two Rivers
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- Williams, Tennessee: Collected Stories
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- Wimberley, Darryl: A Tinker's Damn
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- Wintner, Robert: In a Sweet Magnolia Time
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- Woodrell, Daniel: Winter's Bone
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- Yancey, Richard: A Burning in Homeland
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- Yarbrough, Steve: Prisoners of War
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- Zigal, Thomas: The White League
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