The Best Southern Nonfiction of All Time
List curated by 134 judges. Full list available in the source link.
- 1
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee · 1941 · 5 lists
- 2
Black Boy
Richard Wright · 1945 · 4 lists
- 3
The Mind of the South
W.J. Cash · 1941 · 1 list
- 4
One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty · 1984 · 1 list
- 5
The Civil War
Shelby Foote · 1958 · 3 lists
- 6
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1965 · 16 lists
- 7
Killers of the Dream
Lillian E. Smith · 1 list
- 8
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass · 1845 · 2 lists
- 9
A Childhood
Harry Crews · 1978 · 1 list
- 10
North Toward Home
Willie Morris · 1967 · 1 list
- 11
Mystery and Manners
Flannery O'Connor · 1969 · 1 list
- 12
All Over But the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg · 1997 · 1 list
- 13
The Habit of Being
Flannery O'Connor · 1978 · 1 list
- 14
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Ann Jacobs · 2013 · 1 list
- 15
Lanterns on the Levee
William Alexander Percy · 1941 · 1 list
- 16
Salvation on Sand Mountain
Dennis Covington · 1995 · 1 list
- 17
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Mary Boykin Chesnut · 1981 · 2 lists
- 18
I'll Take My Stand
Twelve Southerners · 1930 · 1 list
- 19
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain · 1883 · 2 lists
- 20
The Burden of Southern History
C. Vann Woodward · 1913 · 1 list
- 21
The Message In the Bottle
Walker Percy · 1656 · 1 list
- 22
The Earl of Louisiana
A.J. Liebling · 1961 · 1 list
- 23
Origins of the New South
C. Vann Woodward · 1951 · 1 list
- 24
Rising Tide
John Barry · 1997 · 2 lists
- 25
The Unsettling of America
Wendell Berry · 1977 · 1 list