Books all Georgians Should Read

The Georgia 2008 Top 25 Books By Living Georgia Writers

The Georgia Top 25 Reading List is a project of the Georgia Center for the Book. The list is made up of books set in Georgia or written by a resident or former resident of the state. The list, aimed at enhancing public apreciation of Georgia's rich literary tradition, was chosen by the public and members of the Center's advisory council. The purpose of the Top 25 is to promote reading and discussion and to enhance appreciation of Georgia's rich literary traditions.

The 2008 Georgia Top 25 Books By Living Georgia Writers

Taking After Mudear

Ansa, Tina McElroy

Above the Fall Line: The Trail from White Pine Cabin

Blackmarr, Amy

Be Sweet

Blount, Roy Jr.

Waltzing Through the Endtime (poetry)

Bottoms, David

Baby Brother’s Blues

Cleage, Pearl

Dwelling Place

Clarke, Erskine

Strong at the Broken Places

Cleland, Max

Georgia Odyssey

Cobb, James C.

The Meaning of Consuelo

Cofer, Judith Ortiz

A Cabinet of Wonders

Dodd, Renee

There Is No Me Without You

Greene, Melissa Fay

The Untelling

Jones, Tayari

The Race Beat

Klibanoff, Hank

The Book of Marie

Kay, Terry

Crabcakes

McPherson, James Alan

A Little Salvation (poetry)

Mitcham, Judson

Your Body is Changing

Pendarvis, Jack

Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land

Ray, Janisse

Downtown

Sams, Ferrol

Beyond Reach

Slaughter, Karin

Native Guard (poetry)

Trethewey, Natasha

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Walker, Alice

For the Confederate Dead (poetry)

Young, Kevin

The Big Mama Stories

Youngblood, Shay

In the Morning: Reflections from First Light

Williams, Philip Lee

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The 2005 Georgia Top 25 Reading List

The Last Radio Baby

Andrews, Raymond

Ugly Ways

Ansa, Tina McElroy

Going to Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Pond

Blackmarr, Amy

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Boyd, Valerie

The Latin Deli

Cofer, Judith Ortiz

The Water is Wide

Conroy, Pat

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

Crews, Harry

Wit

Edson, Margaret

The Temple Bombing

Greene, Melissa Fay

Trouble No More

Grooms, Tony

Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son

Hemphill, Paul

Daughter of My People

Kilgo, James

Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege

Leslie, Kent

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

McCullers, Carson

Lamb in His Bosom

Miller, Caroline

Sabbath Creek

Mitcham, Judson

Everything That Rises Must Converge

O'Connor, Flannery

And the Dead Shall Rise

Oney, Steve

Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn

Pomerantz, Gary

Wild Ginger

Sellers, Bettie

The Celestine Sibley Sampler

Sibley, Celestine

Freedom: Georgia's Anti-Slavery Heritage 1733-1865

Thurmond, Michael

Driving Miss Daisy

Uhry, Alfred

Mama Makes Up Her Mind

White, Bailey

A Distant Flame

Williams, Philip Lee

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The 2002 Georgia Top 25 Reading List

Baby Of The Family

Ansa, Tina McElroy

Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil

Berendt, John

Armored Hearts

Bottoms, David

Cold Sassy Tree

Burns, Olive

Tobacco Road

Caldwell, Erskine

An Hour Before Daylight

Carter, Jimmy

What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day

Cleage, Pearl

The Prince Of Tides

Conroy, Pat

The Library Dragon

Deedy, Carmen, illustrated by Michael White

Deliverance

Dickey, James

The Souls Of Black Folk

Du Bois, W.E.B.

Praying For Sheetrock

Greene, Melissa Fay

Dream Boy

Grimsley, Jim

Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales

Harris, Joel Chandler, and Julius Lester

To Dance With The White Dog

Kay, Terry

Walking With The Wind

Lewis, John

The Member Of The Wedding

McCullers, Carson

Gone With The Wind

Mitchell, Margaret

A Good Man Is Hard To Find, And Other Stories

O'Connor, Flannery

Lighthouse

Price, Eugenia

Ecology Of A Cracker Childhood

Ray, Janisse

Run With The Horsemen

Sams, Ferrol

Peachtree Road

Siddons, Anne Rivers

The Color Purple

Walker, Alice

A Testament Of Hope: The Essential Writings And Speeches Of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Washington, James Melvin, Editor