The Color Purple? The Sound and the Fury? (We know it’s a difficult question.)
The American South has given us some of our very best writers.
And those writers have created some necessary reading.
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Maybe you keep returning to those pre-war novels from the Southern renaissance.
Like William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.
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Or maybe you can't get enough of the new classics.
Like Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones.
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Southern literature just has a specific appeal — and we want to hear about the ones you love.
Of any variety — fiction, essays, poetry, whatever.
What's Your Favorite Book About The South?