Southern Gothic Books

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As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 191,285 ratings — published 1930
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Wise Blood Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,971 ratings — published 1952
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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,028,063 ratings — published 1960
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The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 199,317 ratings — published 1929
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,085 ratings — published 1940
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Child of God (Vintage International) Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 279 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 57,503 ratings — published 1973
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 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
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The Devil All the Time The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 42,848 ratings — published 2011
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Absalom, Absalom! Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,858 ratings — published 1936
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 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
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Beloved Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 504,495 ratings — published 1987
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Light in August Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,672 ratings — published 1932
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The Violent Bear It Away The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,954 ratings — published 1960
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The Complete Stories The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,220 ratings — published 1971
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Suttree Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.21 — 29,282 ratings — published 1979
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Outer Dark Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 27,002 ratings — published 1968
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The Elementals The Elementals (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,922 ratings — published 1981
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A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,999 ratings — published 1947
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Sharp Objects Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,258,515 ratings — published 2006
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The Little Friend The Little Friend (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 136 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 85,079 ratings — published 2002
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The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories 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
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 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
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Twilight Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,129 ratings — published 2006
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Other Voices, Other Rooms Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,059 ratings — published 1948
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Sing, Unburied, Sing Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,905 ratings — published 2017
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,430 ratings — published 1965
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A House with Good Bones A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 72,066 ratings — published 2023
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In Cold Blood In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 745,852 ratings — published 1966
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Sanctuary Sanctuary (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 15,215 ratings — published 1931
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires 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
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 395,474 ratings — published 1937
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Provinces of Night Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,015 ratings — published 2000
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Bastard Out of Carolina Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,603 ratings — published 1992
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 661,777 ratings — published 1976
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When the Reckoning Comes When the Reckoning Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,794 ratings — published 2021
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No Country for Old Men No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.17 — 261,086 ratings — published 2005
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Summer Sons Summer Sons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.79 — 14,696 ratings — published 2021
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Swamplandia! Swamplandia! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.28 — 60,922 ratings — published 2011
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The Orchard Keeper The Orchard Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.51 — 13,585 ratings — published 1965
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A Feast of Snakes A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,425 ratings — published 1976
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Revelator Revelator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,157 ratings — published 2021
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The Boatman's Daughter The Boatman's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 6,236 ratings — published 2020
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Reflections in a Golden Eye Reflections in a Golden Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,670 ratings — published 1941
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,802 ratings — published 2010
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Cold Moon Over Babylon Cold Moon Over Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,751 ratings — published 1980
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Winter's Bone Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,380 ratings — published 2006
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The Member of the Wedding The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,669 ratings — published 1946
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The Flood (Blackwater, #1) The Flood (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 87,001 ratings — published 1983
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Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 62 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,728,449 ratings — published 2018
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Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga (Blackwater, #1-6) 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
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William Gay
“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.”
William Gay, The Long Home

Amanda Stevens
“La vida me estaba tratando bien… y entonces vi al fantasma. Peor aún, él me vio a mí.”
Amanda Stevens, The Restorer

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