Quintessential Southern Lit.

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

By Janisse Ray

A memoir of a childhood, spend in an isolated Georgia community of Crackers, that grew into a passion to save the vanishing longleaf pine ecocystem in which she was raised.

A Parchment of Leaves

By Silas House

"In 1917, a Cherokee woman who leaves her community to marry a white man finds herself isolated and discriminated against as she tries to settle in to her new life. By the author of Clay's Quilt"--NoveList.

Father and Son

By Larry Brown

A classic story of good and evil set in the rural American South of 1968.

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Cold Mountain

By Charles Frazier

Inman, an injured and disillusioned Confederate soldier, embarks on a harrowing journey home to his sweetheart, Ada, who herself is struggling to run the farm left her at her father's sudden death.