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As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 195,888 ratings — published 1930
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 410 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 40,410 ratings — published 1952
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 382 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,154,341 ratings — published 1960
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,638 ratings — published 1929
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 125,031 ratings — published 1940
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 59,577 ratings — published 1973
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,847 ratings — published 1955
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,942 ratings — published 1936
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 44,582 ratings — published 2011
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,464 ratings — published 1987
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,553 ratings — published 1994
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,450 ratings — published 1960
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,994 ratings — published 1932
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,610 ratings — published 1971
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 28,160 ratings — published 1968
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,435 ratings — published 1979
The Elementals (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,185 ratings — published 1981
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,290,131 ratings — published 2006
The Little Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 88,035 ratings — published 2002
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 342,631 ratings — published 1947
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,727 ratings — published 1951
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,182 ratings — published 2006
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 249,529 ratings — published 1985
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,406 ratings — published 1948
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,705 ratings — published 2017
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.66 — 78,112 ratings — published 2023
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 760,367 ratings — published 1966
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,732 ratings — published 1965
Sanctuary (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 15,552 ratings — published 1931
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,624 ratings — published 1937
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 96 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 357,186 ratings — published 2020
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,130 ratings — published 2000
When the Reckoning Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 13,569 ratings — published 2021
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,378 ratings — published 1992
The Boatman's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.47 — 6,545 ratings — published 2020
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 674,802 ratings — published 1976
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,612 ratings — published 1976
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.17 — 271,959 ratings — published 2005
Revelator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,697 ratings — published 2021
Summer Sons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,207 ratings — published 2021
The Flood (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.68 — 91,922 ratings — published 1983
The Orchard Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.51 — 14,023 ratings — published 1965
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,000 ratings — published 1941
Swamplandia! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.29 — 61,568 ratings — published 2011
Cold Moon Over Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,366 ratings — published 1980
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,226 ratings — published 2010
Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga (Blackwater, #1-6)
by (shelved 70 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,573 ratings — published 1983
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 44,633 ratings — published 2006
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,816,176 ratings — published 2018
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,247 ratings — published 2002
“This Force isn’t human, and it doesn’t think or act like a human. In fact, we can’t even be sure if this Force thinks at all in the way that we understand thinking. It exists beyond what we can comprehend, and it doesn’t fit neatly into the categories and ideas we use to understand the world.”
― Doorway in the Swamp
― Doorway in the Swamp
“From When Goodness Dies
“Goodness doesn’t vanish—it fades slowly, like the last light in a room where love used to live.”
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“Goodness doesn’t vanish—it fades slowly, like the last light in a room where love used to live.”
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