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Southern Gothic Books
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As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 186,566 ratings — published 1930
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,860,987 ratings — published 1960
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.82 — 37,645 ratings — published 1952
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,679 ratings — published 1929
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,175 ratings — published 1940
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.82 — 55,092 ratings — published 1973
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.16 — 49,638 ratings — published 1955
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.92 — 294,664 ratings — published 1994
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 41,072 ratings — published 2011
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,910 ratings — published 1936
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 66,648 ratings — published 1932
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,484 ratings — published 1960
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,763 ratings — published 1971
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 489,162 ratings — published 1987
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,129 ratings — published 1979
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,481 ratings — published 1968
The Elementals (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,018 ratings — published 1981
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 334,027 ratings — published 1947
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,217,734 ratings — published 2006
The Little Friend (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 123 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 82,122 ratings — published 2002
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,073 ratings — published 2006
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,287 ratings — published 1951
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 218,678 ratings — published 1985
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,087 ratings — published 1965
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,674 ratings — published 1948
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 148,419 ratings — published 2017
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 727,260 ratings — published 1966
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 65,933 ratings — published 2023
Sanctuary (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,801 ratings — published 1931
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,928 ratings — published 2000
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,596 ratings — published 1937
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 648,609 ratings — published 1976
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.79 — 308,563 ratings — published 2020
Swamplandia! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.28 — 60,131 ratings — published 2011
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,716 ratings — published 1992
When the Reckoning Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 11,920 ratings — published 2021
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.17 — 245,850 ratings — published 2005
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,261 ratings — published 2010
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,233 ratings — published 1976
The Orchard Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.51 — 13,006 ratings — published 1965
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,346 ratings — published 1941
The Boatman's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.49 — 5,983 ratings — published 2020
Revelator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,588 ratings — published 2021
Summer Sons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.79 — 14,098 ratings — published 2021
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.87 — 40,017 ratings — published 2006
La riada (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 80,519 ratings — published 1983
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,300 ratings — published 1946
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.06 — 26,226 ratings — published 1930
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 59 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,607,563 ratings — published 2018
The Long Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,787 ratings — published 1999
“The Man Who Loved Too Much That Killed Him
A tragic psychological story of a man whose love turns into his undoing. This haunting piece explores obsession, loss, and the thin line between devotion and destruction.”
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A tragic psychological story of a man whose love turns into his undoing. This haunting piece explores obsession, loss, and the thin line between devotion and destruction.”
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“She quilted her tears into a blanket no one else had the courage to wrap around her.”
― Honey Girl: A Lyrical Southern Gothic Story of Love, Loss, and Redemption
― Honey Girl: A Lyrical Southern Gothic Story of Love, Loss, and Redemption












