#1 

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)

#2

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

#3

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987) 

#4

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961) 

#5

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952) 

#6

The Sound and the Fury  by William Faulkner (1929)

#7

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982) 

#8

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)

#9

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)

#11

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

#12

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)

#14

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997) 

#16

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)

#19

The March by E. L. Doctorow (2005) 

#23

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1938)

#25

Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)

#26

A Death in the Family by James Agee (1957)

#29

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)

#30

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (1976)

#31

Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (1988)

#32

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990)

#34

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019)

#35

Deliverance by James Dickey (1970)

#36

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (1971)

#40

Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1928)

#41

The Reivers by William Faulkner (1962)

#43

Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry (1941)

#44

In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (1941)

#45

Collected Stories by William Faulkner (1950)

#47

The Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (1965)

#49

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (2013)

#51

The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor (1985)

#53

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines (1999)

#54

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)

#56

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1974) 

#58

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison (1992) 

#66

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (1952)

#67

The Help by Kathryn Stockett (2009) 

#68

The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty (1980)

#71

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)

#74

The View from Pompey's Head by Hamilton Basso (1954)

#76

The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones by Jesse Hill Ford (1965)

#77

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories by Doris Betts (1973)

#78

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe (1998)

#81

Serena by Ron Rash (2008)

#86

Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner (1951)

#87

The Grass Harp by Truman Capote (1951) 

#90

A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (1955) 

#91

Band of Angels by Robert Penn Warren (1955)

#95

Home from the Hill by William Humphrey (1958)

#101

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (1965)

#117

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1976)

#120

A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren (1956)

#121

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)

#122

Sounder by William H. Armstrong (1969)

#123

Sanctuary by William Faulkner (1931)

#128

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2002)

#132

The Christmas Wife: Stories by Helen Norris (1985)

#134

White People by Allan Gurganus (1991)

#140

Song of the Shank by Jeffrey Renard Allen (2014)

#144

The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow (1954)

#148

Ninety-Two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane (1973)

#151

Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove (1986)

#152

Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard (1991)

#156

The Firm by John Grisham (1991)

#157

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)

#158

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

#161

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (2010)

#163

Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (2012)

#167

The Dog of the South by Charles Portis (1979)

#179

A Painted House by John Grisham (2001)

#184

The Hamlet by William Faulkner (1940)

#186

Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner (1948)

#191

The Green Mile by Stephen King (1996)