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
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

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

At Home in Mitford by Jan KaronCold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann BurnsThe All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie FlaggThe Blue Castle by L.M. MontgomeryJamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Vintage Fiction
40 books — 12 voters
The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHaleTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sweet Smell of Magnolias and Memories by Celeste Fletcher McHaleAll Things Bright and Strange by James  MarkertThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Best Southern Fiction Books
297 books — 107 voters

Flannery O'Connor
The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Some nights, we have the road to ourselves and the radio sings only for us. We play our shows and tear-ass out. Tonight, it was this little dive bar in a town we took to calling East Motherless. But we play, no matter. We rock and then we roll. The soundcheck and the fury, the power chord and the glory. Then we load our gear into a muddy-brown Merc with a little trailer behind, and we’re off. Slinging gravel, filling sky with road.
David Wesley Williams, Long Gone Daddies (2013)

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