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)
South of Broad
The Help by Kathryn StockettTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggGarden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Quirky Southern Fiction
968 books — 1,906 voters
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann BurnsAt Home in Mitford by Jan KaronThe All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie FlaggThe Blue Castle by L.M. MontgomeryJamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Vintage Fiction
39 books — 10 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
23 books — 4 voters
As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerParis Trout by Pete DexterTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePraying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay GreeneMudbound by Hillary Jordan
Civil Rights in the South
5 books — 1 voter

Jennifer Peer
Tonight is about being our true selves with no apologies. It's the ultimate middle finger to the reality that'll come tomorrow. ...more
Jennifer Peer, Not On Your Latte: A HOT Southern Romance

The sun played children’s games with the clouds, but the clouds grew tired of such trifling and turned dark. Two days out of Memphis, a sort of desperation set in aboard the Clementine. Nerves were frayed from the long journey west and patience was as short as the supply of whiskey—a cross look could get you a poke in the eye, a sarcastic remark might prompt a pot shot from one of the cheap pistols that suddenly proliferated on board. Children carried them, even. The snotnoses—armed!
David Wesley Williams, Everybody Knows (2023)

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