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10 Great Books of Southern Fiction

There are plenty of things about the South that I'm either indifferent to (NASCAR, sweet tea) or ashamed of (a history of slavery, segregation and racism; Ernest). But I'm certainly proud of our writing tradition, from William Faulkner to Alice Walker. Here are 10 great novels and collections of short fiction by Southern writers, set in the 20th Century South.As with any of the lists on my blog, these are simply my favorites. We do plenty of lists in Paste magazine, all of which are researched, vetted and argued over endlessly. But what follows are simply 10 books that were...  read more