I’ve only occasionally read literature set in the southern USA, but I have enjoyed it just about every time I did. So I couldn’t resist the chance to improve myself a little by entering The Introverted Reader’s Southern Literature Reading Challenge.

(Isn’t this just the purtiest little button you’ve seen?)

To qualify, books must be non-fiction or fiction of any genre, adult or young adult, written by an author from the South and set mostly in the South. The southern states that Jen will allow to qualify for this challenge are: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. West Virginia and Florida–as long as I find a book by a Florida author and/or set in Florida that feels Southern.

I’m entering at the “Have a glass of sweet iced tea, honey” level (3 books), just because I can’t commit to much more at this point but I do hope to exceed that goal.

1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Kentucky and Louisiana) Completed January 2012

2. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield (Arkansas) Completed January 2012

3. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (Texas) Completed September 2012