Southern Regional Interest

The Top 20 Southern Novels from The Greenville Journal, May 1, 2009:

Eight college professors of Southern literature were asked which Southern novels they considered the most influential.

• "Absalom! Absalom!" by William Faulkner
• "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren
• "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
• "Cane" by Jean Toomer
• "Deliverance" by Jame Dickey
• "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
• "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe
• "Native Son" by Richard Wright
• "Roots" by Alex Haley
• "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman" by Ernest J. Gaines
• "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
• "The Last Gentleman" by Walker Percy
• "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
• "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
• "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
• "Tobacco Road" by Erskine Caldwell
• "Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor
• "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
• "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
• "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon, Jr.