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North Carolina
North Carolina Great Books list by Sally Buckner

Look Homeward, Angel  (fiction)
by Thomas Wolfe

The Tall Woman (fiction)
by Wilma Dykeman

Midquest (poetry)
by Fred Chappell:

I Am One of You  Forever  (fiction)
by Fred Chappell

The Mind of the South  (nonfiction)
by W.J. Cash

Cold Mountain (fiction)
by Charles Frazier

In Abraham's Bosom (drama)
by Paul Green

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American Negroes
by John Hope Franklin

Beasts of the Southern Wild
by Doris Betts:

The Astronomer and Other Stories (fiction)
by Doris Betts:

Fair and Tender Ladies (fiction)
by Lee Smith

Sally Buckner adds,
If allowed extra choices, I would name these:

George Moses Horton:  The Hope of Liberty (poetry)
James Boyd:  Drums (fiction)
Randall Jarrell:  The Complete Poems (poetry)
Gail Godwin:  A Southern Family (fiction)
Reynolds Price:  A Whole New Life (non-fiction)
Kaye Gibbons:  Ellen Foster