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“Il mondo di Belle” (The Kitchen House) di Kathleen Grissom tra i 100 libri da leggere della Southern Literature americana insieme a Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy e altri grandi

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100 Must-Read Works of Southern Literature

A Riot reader from the Midwest was so intrigued by my love letter to Flannery O’Connor, she tweeted me and asked if I had a copy of my Southern literature class reading list. She always wanted to dig into Southern lit, but didn’t know where to start. I suddenly realized that if you aren’t exposed to Southern lit, you really don’t know where to start. Sure, you’ve read To Kill a Mockingbird, and yeah… that Faulkner guy was from Mississippi (let’s face it, Faulkner’s words ain’t easy on the brain). But what else is there?

I started to make a list of Southern books I had in my personal library, and I had around 70 that I would be willing to tell a stranger to read. Bookseller extraordinaire Joe Hickman of Lemuria Books in Jackson, Mississippi helped me fill in some gaps, and we exchanged a few notes on upcoming releases. Lemuria is by far the best bookstore in the South because they have a huge staff full of people who know their stuff. Plus, they have ALL THE BOOKS. Seriously. The books overflow off the shelves all over the floor. Great place.

A few notes: some authors have so many good books, I just listed the ones I liked the most. In the case of Faulkner, I picked his more accessible novels. There is some really great nonfiction included and a lot of really great nonfiction NOT included. I had to cut it off at some point.

I suggest you pour yourself a glass of single barrel bourbon, make a batch of cheese straws, and start reading.

1. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place – Harry Crews
2. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
3. A Death in the Family – James Agee
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
5. Airships – Barry Hannah
6. A Land More Kind Than Home – Wiley Cash
7. A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest Gaines
8. All Over But the Shoutin’ – Rick Bragg
9. All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
10. Apostles of Light – Ellen Douglas
11. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
12. A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
13. A Time to Kill – John Grisham
14. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
15. Bastard Out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison
16. Bats Out of Hell – Barry Hannah
17. Big Bad Love – Larry Brown
18. Black Boy – Richard Wright
19. Blues All Around Me – B.B. King
20. Brother to a Dragonfly – Will Campbell
21. Burning Bright: Stories – Ron Rash
22. Before Women Had Wings – Connie May Fowler
23. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
24. Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters – Robert Gordon
25. Child of God – Cormac McCarthy
26. The Civil War: A Narrative (I-III) – Shelby Foote
27. Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
28. Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns
29. *The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty – Eudora Welty
30. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
31. The Complete Stories – Flannery O’Connor
32. The Courting of Marcus Dupree – Willie Morris
33. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter – Tom Franklin
34. Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man – Fannie Flagg
35. Deep Blues – Robert Palmer
36. Deliverance – James Dickey
37. Delta Wedding – Eudora Welty
38. Ellen Foster – Kaye Gibbons
39. The End of California – Steve Yarbrough
40. Every Day By the Sun – Dean Faulkner Wells
41. The Fall of the House of Zeus – Curtis Wilkie
42. Father of the Blues – W. C. Handy
43. Fire in the Morning – Elizabeth Spencer
44. Geronimo Rex – Barry Hannah
45. Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues – William Ferris
46. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
47. The Great Santini – Pat Conroy
48. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
49. Hell at the Breech – Tom Franklin
50. House of Prayer No. 2 – Mark Richard
51. I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down – William Gay
52. It Wasn’t All Dancing and Other Stories – Mary Ward Brown
53. Joe – Larry Brown
54. The Keepers of the House – Shirley Ann Grau
55. The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom
56. Known World – Edward P Jones
57. Lanterns on the Levee – William Alexander Percy
58. The Last Gentleman – Walker Percy
59. The Last Girls – Lee Smith
60. The Last of the Southern Girls – Willie Morris
61. Light in August – William Faulkner
62. The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
63. Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South – Roy Blount Jr.
64. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
65. The Mind of the South – W.J. Cash
66. The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
67. Mudbound – Hillary Jordan
68. The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure – Jack Pendarvis
69. Native Guard – Natasha Trethewey
70. North Toward Home – Willie Morris
71. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All – Allan Gurganus
72. Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored – Clifton Taulbert
73. One Foot in Eden – Ron Rash
74. One Mississippi – Mark Childress
75. The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
76. Other Voices, Other Rooms – Truman Capote
77. Poachers – Tom Franklin
78. The Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy
79. Provinces of Night – William Gay
80. The Quiet Game – Greg Iles
81. Raney – Clyde Edgerton
82. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 – John Barry
83. Run with the Horseman – Ferrol Sams
84. Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward
85. Salvation on Sand Mountain – Dennis Covington
86. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
87. Serena – Ron Rash
88. The Sharpshooter Blues – Lewis Nordan
89. Shiloh and Other Stories – Bobbie Ann Mason
90. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
91. Southern Belly: A Food Lover’s Companion – John T. Edge
92. Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom – Peter Guralnick
93. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
94. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
95. Victory Over Japan – Ellen Gilchrist
96. Walking Across Egypt – Clyde Edgerton
97. Welding with Children – Tim Gautreaux
98. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
99. Work Shirts for Madmen – George Singleton
100. Zeitoun – Dave Eggers

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