Southern Literature -- from the Conference on Southern Lit
Explore the finest Southern literature with a curated list of books from the Conference on Southern Lit. Discover classic and contemporary works that capture the essence of the South.
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
by Janisse Ray
A memoir of a childhood, spend in an isolated Georgia community of Crackers, that grew into a passion to save the vanishing longleaf pine ecocystem …
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Nowhere Else on Earth
by Josephine Humphreys
Now in paperback, the love of a young girl for a heroic outlaw is rendered in this richly textured story of a war-torn community and …
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A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a …
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My Own Country
by Abraham Verghese
From the author of The Covenant of Water and New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone: a story of medicine in the American heartland, and …
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The Tennis Partner
by Abraham Verghese
When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member …
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Oral History
by Lee Smith
A curse laid on the inhabitants of Hoot Owl Holler follows each succeeding generation for a century, in a tale of love, murder, obsession, and …
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Rich in Love
by Josephine Humphreys
At the age of seventeen, Lucille Odom finds herself in the middle of an unexpected domestic crisis. As she helps guide her family through its …
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Dreams of Sleep
by Josephine Humphreys
Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten--year marriage falling apart. As Alice and her husband, Will, struggle …
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by Ernest J. Gaines
“Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . …
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A Gathering of Old Men
by Ernest J. Gaines
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane …
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