Oxford American List of the Best Southern Novels

Total: 5/32

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  1. Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner
  2. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
  3. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  4. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  6. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
  7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  8. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  9. Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
  10. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  11. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  12. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Gregory Toole
  13. Light in August by William Faulkner
  14. A Death in the Family by James Agee
  15. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
  16. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  17. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  19. Native Son by Richard Wright
  20. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
  21. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
  22. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
  23. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  24. The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
  25. Cane by Jean Toomer
  26. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  27. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  28. Deliverance by James Dickey
  29. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  30. The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy
  31. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  32. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

[source: Oxford American magazine]

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