22 books
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Southern Gothic Books
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As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 191,285 ratings — published 1930
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,971 ratings — published 1952
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,028,063 ratings — published 1960
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 199,317 ratings — published 1929
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,085 ratings — published 1940
Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 279 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 57,503 ratings — published 1973
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 50,822 ratings — published 1955
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 42,848 ratings — published 2011
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,858 ratings — published 1936
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 300,832 ratings — published 1994
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 504,495 ratings — published 1987
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,672 ratings — published 1932
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,954 ratings — published 1960
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,220 ratings — published 1971
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.21 — 29,282 ratings — published 1979
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 27,002 ratings — published 1968
The Elementals (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,922 ratings — published 1981
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,999 ratings — published 1947
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,258,515 ratings — published 2006
The Little Friend (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 136 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 85,079 ratings — published 2002
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,004 ratings — published 1951
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 234,875 ratings — published 1985
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,129 ratings — published 2006
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,059 ratings — published 1948
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,905 ratings — published 2017
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,430 ratings — published 1965
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 72,066 ratings — published 2023
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 745,852 ratings — published 1966
Sanctuary (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 15,215 ratings — published 1931
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 89 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 325,238 ratings — published 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 395,474 ratings — published 1937
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,015 ratings — published 2000
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,603 ratings — published 1992
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 661,777 ratings — published 1976
When the Reckoning Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,794 ratings — published 2021
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.17 — 261,086 ratings — published 2005
Summer Sons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.79 — 14,696 ratings — published 2021
Swamplandia! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.28 — 60,922 ratings — published 2011
The Orchard Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.51 — 13,585 ratings — published 1965
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,425 ratings — published 1976
Revelator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,157 ratings — published 2021
The Boatman's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 6,236 ratings — published 2020
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,670 ratings — published 1941
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,802 ratings — published 2010
Cold Moon Over Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,751 ratings — published 1980
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,380 ratings — published 2006
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,669 ratings — published 1946
The Flood (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 87,001 ratings — published 1983
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 62 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,728,449 ratings — published 2018
Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga (Blackwater, #1-6)
by (shelved 62 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,291 ratings — published 1983
“In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming through the worn and worthless husk of the microsecond previous, halting, beginning to show the slow and infinitesimal accreations of decay in the clocking away of life in a mechanism encoded at the moment of conception, withering, shunted aside by time's next orgasmic thrust, and all to the beating of some galactic heart, to voices, a madman's mutterings from a snare in the web of the world.”
― The Long Home
― The Long Home
“La vida me estaba tratando bien… y entonces vi al fantasma. Peor aún, él me vio a mí.”
― The Restorer
― The Restorer












