Every state is known for something. As you work your way through the list, don't miss the best books set in Alabama. While you're at it, check out the best movies set in Alabama, too.
Alabama is a southeastern U.S. state that’s home to significant landmarks from the American Civil Rights Movement. The city of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, now a museum, was a protest headquarters in the 1960s.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s church and the Rosa Parks Museum, dedicated to the activist, can be found in the capital of Montgomery.
Best Books Set in Alabama
- BRAND NEW TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD PAPERBACK BOOK
- Lee, Harper (Author)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, paperback
- Ellison, Ralph (Author)
Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison
He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of “the Brotherhood,” before retreating amid violence and confusion.
- Hardcover Book
- Truman Capote (Author)
A Christmas Memory
Author: Truman Capote
Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: “It's fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals.
- Parks, Rosa (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
Rosa Parks: My Story
Author: Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is best known for the day she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Yet there is much more to her story than this one act of defiance. In this straightforward, compelling autobiography, Rosa Parks talks candidly about the civil rights movement and her active role in it. Her dedication is inspiring; her story is unforgettable.
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- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Grau, Shirley Ann (Author)
The Keepers of the House
Author: Shirley Ann Grau
Seven generations of the Howland family have lived in the Alabama plantation home built by an ancestor who fought for Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812.
Over the course of a century, the Howlands accumulated a fortune, fought for secession, and helped rebuild the South, establishing themselves as one of the most respected families in the state. But that history means little to Abigail Howland.
The inheritor of the Howland manse, Abigail hides the long-buried secret of her grandfather’s thirty-year relationship with his African American mistress. Her fortunes reverse when her family’s mixed-race heritage comes to light and her community—locked in the prejudices of the 1960s—turns its back on her. Faced with such deep-seated racism, Abigail is pushed to defend her family at all costs.
Now that you've completed the list of best books set in this state, why not check out some others? Here are the Best Books Set in All 50 States.
To continue learning, check out the Alabama State History Project.
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Further Reading About the State:
- Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
- The Old Federal Road in Alabama: An Illustrated Guide (Alabama: The Forge of History)
- Trees of Alabama (Gosse Nature Guides)
- Alabama: The Making of an American State
- Alabama (A True Book: My United States)
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