The list starts with author and then a good starter title.
- Dorothy Allison -- Bastard Out of Carolina
- Mary Kay Andrews -- Savannah Blues
- Tina McElroy Ansa -- The Hand I Fan With
- Lois Battle -- The Florabama Ladies’ Auxiliary & Sewing Circle
- Wendell Berry -- Jayber Crow
- Rick Bragg -- All Over But the Shoutin’ (B)
- Jeanne Braselton -- A False Sense of Well Being
- Larry Brown -- Joe
- Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
- Fred Chappell -- I Am One of You Forever
- Mark Childress -- Crazy in Alabama
- Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
- Pearl Cleage -- Babylon Sisters
- Pat Conroy -- The Water Is Wide
- Robert Dalby -- Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly
- Pat Cunningham Devoto -- The Summer We Got Saved
- James Dickey -- Deliverance
- John Dufresne -- Louisiana Power and Light
- Pamela Duncan -- Moon Women
- Tony Earley -- Jim the Boy
- Clyde Edgerton -- Walking Across Egypt
- Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying
- Fannie Flagg -- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe
- Shelby Foote -- Shiloh
- Connie May Fowler -- Before Women Had Wings
- Dorothea Benton Frank -- Sullivan’s Island
- Tom Franklin -- Hell at the Breach
- Charles Frazier -- Cold Mountain
- Ernest J. Gaines -- A Lesson Before Dying
- Tim Gautreaux -- The Clearing
- William Gay -- The Long Home
- Kaye Gibbons -- Ellen Foster
- Ellen Gilchrist -- I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy & Other Stories
- Karin Gillespie -- Bet Your Bottom Dollar
- Ellen Glasgow -- The Romantic Comedians
- Gail Godwin -- A Mother and Two Daughters
- Jim Grimsley -- Winter Birds
- Allan Gurganus -- The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- Beth Henley -- Crimes of the Heart (play)
- Patti Callahan Henry -- When Light Breaks
- Carl Hiaasen -- Tourist Season
- Home Hickam -- Rocket Boys (B)
- Cathy Holton -- Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes
- Silas House -- Clay’s Quilt
- Josephine Humphreys -- Rich in Love
- Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Joshilyn Jackson -- Gods in Alabama
- Paulette Jiles -- Stormy Weather
- Edward P. Jones -- The Known World
- Jan Karon -- At Home in Mitford
- Terry Kay -- To Dance with the White Dog
- Francis Parkinson Keyes -- Dinner at Antoine’s
- Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
- Nanci Kincaid -- As Hot as It Was You Ought to Thank Me
- Cassandra King -- The Same Sweet Girls
- Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Michael Malone -- Handling Sin
- Charles Martin -- When Crickets Cry
- Bobbie Ann Mason -- In Country
- Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
- Sharyn McCrumb -- If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
- Carson McCullers -- The Member of the Wedding
- Tim McLaurin -- Keeper of the Moon (B)
- Larry McMurtry -- The Last Picture Show
- Joan Medlicott -- The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love
- Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- Mary Alice Monroe -- The Beach House
- Robert Morgan -- Gap Creek
- Willie Morris -- North toward Home (B)
- Flannery O’Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
- David Payne -- Early from the Dance
- T. R. Pearson -- A Short History of a Small Place
- Walker Percy -- The Second Coming
- Katherine Anne Porter -- Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Eugenia Price -- Lighthouse
- Reynolds Price -- Kate Vaideb
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Cross Creek (B)
- Sheri Reynolds -- The Rapture of Canaan
- Ann B. Ross -- Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
- Gwyn Hyman Rubio -- Icy Sparks
- Ferrol Sams -- Run with the Horsemen
- Mary Lee Settle -- O Beulah Land
- Louise Shaffer -- The Three Miss Margarets
- Anne Rivers Siddons -- Homeplace
- George Singleton -- Drowning in Gruel
- Lee Smith -- Fair and Tender Ladies
- Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember
- William Styron -- A Tidewater Morning
- Lalita Tademy -- Cane River
- Peter Taylor -- A Summons to Memphis
- Adriana Trigiani -- Big Stone Gap
- Augusta Trobaugh -- Resting in the Bosom of the Lamb
- Alice Walker -- The Color Purple
- Paula Wall -- The Rock Orchard
- Daniel Wallace -- Big Fish
- Ashley Warlick -- Seek the Living
- Robert Penn Warren -- All the King’s Men
- Ken Wells -- Meely LaBauve
- Rebecca Wells -- Little Altars Everywhere
- Eudora Welty -- The Ponder Heart
- Michael Lee West -- Crazy Ladies
- Bailey White -- Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living(NF)
- Karen White -- Falling Home
- James Wilcox -- Hunk City
- Tennessee Williams -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play)
- Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward Angel
- Daniel Woodrell -- Winter’s Bone
- Steve Yarbrough -- Prisoners of War