Scott M. Morris, Waiting for April

Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter

Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

Fannie Flagg, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

Lee Smith, The Last Girls

Erskine Caldwell, God’s Little Acre

Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden

Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury