Oxford American Most Underrated Southern Books

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Oxford American's poll on the best southern books also asked its judges to name the most underrated southern books. A sampling, with judges' comments, was published in the August 2009 issue of Oxford toon meer American, and the full list in its website. toon minder
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Een sterfgeval in de familie (1957) door James Agee
A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) door Nelson Algren
The Gay Place (1961) door Billy Lee Brammer
Lovers of Louisiana (To-Day) (1988) door George Washington Cable
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (1962) door Harry M. Caudill
It Is Time, Lord (Voices of the South) (1963) door Fred Chappell
Go Down, Moses (1942) door William Faulkner
Sartoris (1929) door William Faulkner
George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes) (1948) door Douglas Southall Freeman
Of Love and Dust (1967) door Ernest J. Gaines
The Sheltered Life (1932) door Ellen Glasgow
The Keepers of the House (1964) door Shirley Ann Grau
The Recording Angel (1912) door Corra Harris
Youngblood (1982) door John Oliver Killens
Spaar de spotvogels (1960) door Harper Lee
To Make My Bread (1932) door Grace Lumpkin
Die wonderlijke zomer (1946) door Carson McCullers
Gejaagd door de wind (1936) door Margaret Mitchell
Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) door Anne Moody
The Great Big Doorstep (Lost American fiction) (1979) door E. P. O'Donnell
Hold Autumn in Your Hand (1941) door George Sessions Perry
True grit (1968) door Charles Portis
Cross Creek (1942) door Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Time of Man: A Novel (1926) door Elizabeth Madox Roberts
The Wave (Voices of the South) (1929) door Evelyn Scott
Killers of the Dream (1949) door Lillian Smith
River of Earth (1940) door James Still
Jubilee (1966) door Margaret Walker
The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought (1968) door Richard M. Weaver
Stoner (1965) door John Williams
Negroes With Guns (1962) door Robert F. Williams
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) door Tom Wolfe

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