Southern Gothic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
Scout Finch watches her father defend a Black man in Depression-era Alabama.
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
A formerly enslaved woman is haunted by the ghost of her daughter.
- First published (per catalogue record)
- 1987
- Subgenre
- Historical Literary
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