Oxford American Best Southern Books of All Time

55 obres 441,183 Llibres 7,625 Ressenyes 4.1
Based on a poll of 134 scholars, writers, and others; results published in the August 2009 edition of the Oxford American.

See also their list of the Most Underrated Southern Books
Categories:
Tots, No ficció (23), Novels (32)
ObraCategoriaEtiqueta d'ordenació
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) de James Agee
No ficció1
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) de William Faulkner
Novels1
Black Boy (1945) de Richard Wright
No ficció2
All the King's Men (1946) de Robert Penn Warren
Novels2
The Mind of the South (1941) de W. J. Cash
No ficció3
El soroll i la fúria (1929) de William Faulkner
Novels3
One Writer's Beginnings (1983) de Eudora Welty
No ficció4
Les Aventures d'en Huckleberry Finn (1884) de Mark Twain
Novels4
The Civil War: A Narrative (1958) de Shelby Foote
No ficció5
Matar un rossinyol (1960) de Harper Lee
Novels5
A sangre fría (1965) de Truman Capote
No ficció6
The Moviegoer (1961) de Walker Percy
Novels6
Killers of the Dream (1949) de Lillian Smith
No ficció7
Mentre em moria (1930) de William Faulkner
Novels7
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) de Frederick Douglass
No ficció8
Invisible Man (1952) de Ralph Ellison
Novels8
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (1978) de Harry Crews
No ficció9
North Toward Home (1967) de Willie Morris
No ficció9
Wise Blood (1952) de Flannery O'Connor
Novels9
Flannery O'Connor: Mystery and Manners (1969) de Sally Fitzgerald
No ficció10
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) de Zora Neale Hurston
Novels10
All Over but the Shoutin' (1997) de Rick Bragg
No ficció11
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia (1995) de Dennis Covington
No ficció11
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (1979) de Sally Fitzgerald
No ficció11
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) de Harriet A. Jacobs
No ficció11
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (1941) de William Alexander Percy
No ficció11
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) de Carson McCullers
Novels11
Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) de Mary Chesnut
No ficció12
La Conxorxa dels ximples (1980) de John Kennedy Toole
Novels12
Life on the Mississippi (1883) de Mark Twain
No ficció13
Llum d'Agost (1932) de William Faulkner
Novels13
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other (1975) de Walker Percy
No ficció14
The Burden of Southern History (1960) de C. Vann Woodward
No ficció14
A Death in the Family (1957) de James Agee
Novels14
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1997) de John M. Barry
No ficció15
The Earl of Louisiana (1961) de A. J. Liebling
No ficció15
Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951) de C. Vann Woodward
No ficció15
Look Homeward, Angel (1929) de Thomas Wolfe
Novels15
Beloved (1987) de Toni Morrison
Novels16
El Despertar (1899) de Kate Chopin
Novels17
The Color Purple (1982) de Alice Walker
Novels18
Native Son (1940) de Richard Wright
Novels19
Suttree (1979) de Cormac McCarthy
Novels20
La filla de l'optimista (1972) de Eudora Welty
Novels20
Go Down, Moses (1942) de William Faulkner
Novels21
Gone with the Wind (1936) de Margaret Mitchell
Novels21
The Golden Apples (1947) de Eudora Welty
Novels22
The Known World (2003) de Edward P. Jones
Novels23
Cane (1923) de Jean Toomer
Novels23
Deliverance (1970) de James Dickey
Novels24
A Lesson Before Dying (1993) de Ernest J. Gaines
Novels24
Meridià de sang (1985) de Cormac McCarthy
Novels24
The Last Gentleman: A Novel (1966) de Walker Percy
Novels24
Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) de Dorothy Allison
Novels25
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) de William Styron
Novels25

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