Genre :: Southern (16 books)

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  #9

  The Sound and the Fury

  by William Faulkner

  (15 Reviews)

  703 Points

  "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."

  

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  #62

  As I Lay Dying

  by William Faulkner

  (11 Reviews)

  281 Points

  "Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file."

  

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  #73

  Absalom, Absalom!

  by William Faulkner

  (5 Reviews)

  246 Points

  "From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it..."

  

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  #99

  Light in August

  by William Faulkner

  (5 Reviews)

  188 Points

  "Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.'"

  

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  #104

  The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

  by Carson McCullers

  (8 Reviews)

  181 Points

  "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."

  

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  #136

  A Confederacy of Dunces

  by John Kennedy Toole

  (4 Reviews)

  142 Points

  "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on..."

  

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  #210

  The Complete Stories

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (1 Review)

  95 Points

  "Old Dudley folded into the chair he was gradually molding to his own shape and looked out the window fifteen feet away into another window framed by blackened red brick."

  

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  #222

  The Moviegoer

  by Walker Percy

  (3 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch."

  

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  #250

  Wise Blood

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (3 Reviews)

  84 Points

  "Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."

  

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  #320

  Bastard Out of Carolina

  by Dorothy Allison

  (1 Review)

  68 Points

  "I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne."

  

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