Jay B. Hubbell
A rich and comprehensive presentation of Southern writers and their achievements from earliest colonial times to the eve of the 20th century.
Johnson Jones Hooper
Rollicking escapades on the Alabama frontier. A good starting place for the important literature of “Southwestern humour.”
Andrew Lytle
Five stories from different periods of Southern history by one of the most important Southern writers of the 20th century.
Harriette Arnow
A moving story of a Kentucky mountain woman condemned to life in industrial Detroit.
Wendell Berry
A good place to begin the reading of Berry’s many novels, stories, and poems about rural and small town life in Kentucky.
Fred Chappell
A North Caroilna family on the eve of World War II, told inimitably with both realism and mystery.
William Faulkner
The courage and sufferings of Southern women and children in the War for Southern Independence and Reconstruction.
Caroline Gordon
This modestly titled story of a hunter and fisherman has been recognized as an epic account of Southern life.
Mary Johnston
Mary Johnston
Realistic portrayal of the experiences of Virginia men and women in The War.
Thomas Nelson Page
Old Virginia before, during, and after The War.
Edgar Allen Poe
The genius of the first great Southern (and American) creative writer, available in many versions.
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
A moving portrayal of poor Southerners wresting a living from the land.
Robert Ruark
A boy learning the wisdom of life from his grandfather while growing up in coastal North Carolina.
William Gilmore Simms
An unforgettable story of South Carolinians at the end of the Revolution. Perhaps a good place to begin reading Simms’s many novels and stories.
John W. Thomason, Jr.
A Methodist preacher on the Texas frontier and with Hood’s brigade in The War.
Owen Wister
The impoverished gentry of early 20th century Charleston portrayed in favourable contrast to the Northern rich, by the author of The Virginian.
Richard Adams
An English writer tells the story of the War for Southern Independence through the experiences of its greatest horse, who was, after all, present at many great events.
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
The most popular book in America in the immediate post-bellum period. A tale of the South, loss and redemption.
