Southern Fiction


The Help
To Kill a Mockingbird
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Secret Life of Bees
Where the Crawdads Sing
Gone With the Wind
The Prince of Tides
Cold Sassy Tree
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Peach Keeper
The Kitchen House
Between, Georgia
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
Go Set a Watchman
Hurricane Season by Lauren K. DentonThe Sweet Smell of Magnolias and Memories by Celeste Fletcher McHaleThe Hideaway by Lauren K. DentonThe Help by Kathryn StockettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Contemporary Southern Women Writers
216 books — 79 voters
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneMad Love by Lynessa LayneGlory Road by Lauren K. DentonDangerous Games by Lynessa Layne
Top Alabama Authors
14 books — 8 voters

The House of Eve by Sadeqa  JohnsonCurves for Days by Laura MoherThe First Ladies by Marie Benedict
Anticipated Southern Fiction 2023
3 books — 2 voters
The Terrible Speed of Mercy by Jonathan RogersFlannery O'Connor by Flannery O'ConnorFlannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph C. WoodFlannery O'Connor by Flannery O'ConnorThe Habit of Being by Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
24 books — 5 voters


Wilton Barnhardt
Southerners. Such literate, civilized folk, such charm and cleverness and passion for living, such genuine interest in people, all people, high and low, white and black, and yet how often it had come to, came to, was still coming to vicious incomprehension, usually over race but other things too - religion, class, money. How often the lowest elements had burst out of the shadows and hollers, guns and torches blazing, galloping past the educated and tolerant as nightriders, how often the despicab ...more
Wilton Barnhardt, Lookaway, Lookaway

Jennifer Peer
I love to watch her move over me. Face as lovely as any heavenly constellation. As I breathe her in, intoxicating. Her body entwined with mine, the thing I crave for a lifetime of I love yous before we crash back into the wide, wide, sea.
Jennifer Peer, Not On Your Latte: A HOT Southern Romance

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