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Alabama
List by Kathryn E. Holland Braund

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee, 1960 Pulitzer Prize

2. Naturalist
by Edward O. Wilson, 1994

3. All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
as told to Theodore Rosegarten, 1974

4. Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers
by Johnson J. Hooper, 1845

5. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg, 1987

6. A Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote, 1956

7. The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller, 1903

8. Why We Can’t Wait
by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963

9. The Store
by T. S. Stribling, 1933 Pulitzer Prize

10. Whiskey Man
by Howel H. Raines, 1977
 
 

Kathryn E. Holland Braund is a native of Alabama and a professional historian.  Her work focuses on the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century southeast, particularly the Creek and Seminole Indians. She is the author of Deerskins and  Duffels: The Creek Indians, Anglo-America and the Deerskin Trade, 1685-1815  (1993), co-author with Gregory A. Waselkov, William Bartram on the  Southeastern Indians (1995), and editor of a new edition of A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida by Bernard Romans, originally published in 1775 (1999).  Here is a good link for Alabama.