The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Alabama

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
456 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee 1941 American English
906 Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington 1901 American English
1001 Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1981 American English
2204 The Story of My Life Helen Keller 1903 American English
2504 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi 2016 Ghanaian English
2698 All Over But The Shoutin' Rick Bragg 1997 American English
3099 Why We Can't Wait Martin Luther King 1964 American English
3590 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
3904 Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote 1948 American English
4200 The Elementals Michael McDowell 1981 American English
4299 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg 1987 American English
5307 Lee's Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1943 American English
5692 All God’s Dangers Theodore Rosengarten 1974 American English
5933 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
6249 Parting the Waters Taylor Branch 1988 American English
6290 I Have A Dream Martin Luther King 1973 American English
6487 The Keepers of the House Shirley Ann Grau 1964 American English
6553 The Quilts Of Gee's Bend William Arnett, Alvia Wardlaw, Jane Livingston, John Beardsley 2002 American English
6846 The Complete Short Stories Of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce 1970 American English
7684 Looking for Alaska John Green 2005 American English
7896 King David Levering Lewis 1970 Unknown English
8458 March John Lewis 2013 American English
8567 Slavery by Another Name Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 American English
8574 Let The Trumpet Sound Stephen B. Oates 1982 American English
8927 The End Of Men Hanna Rosin 2012 American English
9619 Give Us The Ballot Ari Berman 2015 American English
9757 Carry Me Home Diane McWhorter 2001 American English
10605 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
10947 Barracoon Zora Neale Hurston 2018 American English
11006 Naturalist E. O. Wilson 1994 American English
11455 The Store Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932 American English
11492 When Everything Changed Gail Collins 2009 American English
11941 Bearing the Cross David J. Garrow 1986 American English
12164 On the Bus with Rosa Parks Rita Dove 1999 American English
13600 Alabama Song Gilles Leroy 2007 French French
13971 Anthill E. O. Wilson 2010 American English
14011 The Life And Times Of Little Richard Charles White 1984 British English
14056 Sweet Soul Music Peter Guralnick 1986 American English
14162 The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman 1939 American English
14232 The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis 1995 American English
14499 Nowhere To Run Gerri Hirshey 2001 American English
14985 The March E. L. Doctorow 2005 American English
15616 Zelda Nancy Milford 1970 American English
15735 A Christmas Memory Truman Capote 1956 American English
15916 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce 1890 American English
15916 Three Days To See Helen Keller 1933 American English
15916 Wallace Marshall Frady 1968 English
17163 Ray Barry Hannah 1980 American English
17163 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee 2015 American English
17163 Freedom's Dominion Jefferson Cowie 2023 American English
17163 No Name In The Street James Baldwin 1972 American English
17163 Pillar Of Fire Taylor Branch 1998 American English
17163 At Canaan's Edge Taylor Branch 2006 American English
17163 Some Adventures Of Captain Simon Suggs Johnson Jones Hooper 1845 American English
17163 The Sun Does Shine Anthony Ray Hinton 2018 American English
17163 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17163 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17163 Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird Christopher Sergel 1990 American English
17163 His Truth Is Marching On Jon Meacham 2020 American English
17163 Black Like Me John Howard Griffin 1961 American English
17163 Angela Davis Angela Davis 1974 American English
17163 Abolition Angela Davis 2022 American English
17163 Stokely Speaks Stokely Carmichael 1971 American English
17163 An American Sunrise Joy Harjo 2019 American English
17163 Only The Ball Was White Robert Peterson 1970 Unknown English
17163 Road Swing Steve Rushin 1998 American English
17163 The Fall Of Roe Elizabeth Dias, Lisa Lerer 2024 Unknown English
17163 Native Nations Kathleen DuVal 2024 Unknown English
17163 Claudette Colvin Phillip Hoose 2009 American English
17163 Inside Out & Back Again Thanhhà Lại 2011 American English
17163 Rabbit Cake Annie Hartnett 2017 American English
17163 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
17163 Klan War Fergus M. Bordewich 2023 Unknown English
17163 Crossings Ben Goldfarb 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
17163 Saying It Loud Mark Whitaker 2023 Unknown English
17163 I Kissed Shara Wheeler Casey McQuiston 2022 American English