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The Pelican Brief
John Grisham
A Memphis law firm pays its new Harvard hires a little too well. The book that made Grisham a household name.
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A Cup of Light
A Novel
Nicole Mones
A Black father in small-town Mississippi kills the two men who raped his daughter, and a young white lawyer takes the case. Grisham's debut, and still one of his best.
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Beach Music
Pat Conroy
A grieving widower moves his daughter to Rome, then gets pulled back to South Carolina by his dying mother. Sprawling, generous, full of food and grief.
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The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy
A Marine fighter pilot rules his family like a barracks. Conroy's first big autobiographical novel, set on the Carolina coast.
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Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
Thomas Sutpen tries to build a dynasty in antebellum Mississippi, and the story gets told and retold by people who can't quite agree on what happened. Faulkner's most ambitious book.
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A Game of Thrones
Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire
George R. R. Martin
Tom Wingo travels from the South Carolina lowcountry to New York to help his twin sister's psychiatrist understand what their childhood did to them. Big, ocean-salted Conroy.
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The Compson family's long decline in Mississippi, told in four voices that don't always cooperate. Difficult and worth it.
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Ulysses
James Joyce
A pregnant girl walks into a Mississippi mill town looking for the man who left her, and sets off a chain of older fires. The most accessible Faulkner entry point.
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Bundren family hauls their mother's coffin across Mississippi, each member narrating a piece of the journey. A short, strange, essential Faulkner entry point.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's and three stories
Truman Capote
Holly Golightly in postwar New York, seen through the eyes of a young writer next door. Slimmer and sadder than the movie.
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In Cold Blood
A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
Truman Capote
Capote's genre-defining account of the 1959 Clutter family murders in rural Kansas. Meticulous, eerie, and still the benchmark for literary true crime.
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The Secret Heart of the Clock
Elias Canetti
O'Connor's most famous Southern Gothic collection, sharp with grace and violence in equal measure. If you've never read her, start here.
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The complete stories
Flannery O'Connor
A young man returns from the war and founds the Church Without Christ on the streets of a Tennessee city. Darkly funny, theologically charged, unmistakably O'Connor.
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Marion Meade
A Mississippi woman returns to bury her father and finds herself sorting through memory alongside his difficult young widow. Welty at her quietest and most precise.
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