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As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 423 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 194,205 ratings — published 1930
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 39,980 ratings — published 1952
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 375 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,117,985 ratings — published 1960
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 201,502 ratings — published 1929
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,988 ratings — published 1940
Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 303 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,916 ratings — published 1973
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,528 ratings — published 1955
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,642 ratings — published 1936
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 44,002 ratings — published 2011
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 305,758 ratings — published 1994
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,906 ratings — published 1987
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,277 ratings — published 1960
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,548 ratings — published 1932
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,436 ratings — published 1971
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 27,761 ratings — published 1968
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,073 ratings — published 1979
The Elementals (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,706 ratings — published 1981
The Little Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 87,117 ratings — published 2002
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,280,217 ratings — published 2006
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 341,467 ratings — published 1947
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,519 ratings — published 1951
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 244,951 ratings — published 1985
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,158 ratings — published 2006
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,295 ratings — published 1948
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,195 ratings — published 2017
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.66 — 75,797 ratings — published 2023
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 755,309 ratings — published 1966
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,616 ratings — published 1965
Sanctuary (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 15,442 ratings — published 1931
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 97 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 337,390 ratings — published 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,402 ratings — published 1937
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,098 ratings — published 2000
When the Reckoning Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 13,351 ratings — published 2021
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,155 ratings — published 1992
The Boatman's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 6,429 ratings — published 2020
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 669,995 ratings — published 1976
Summer Sons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.76 — 15,911 ratings — published 2021
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.17 — 268,435 ratings — published 2005
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,557 ratings — published 1976
Revelator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,499 ratings — published 2021
The Orchard Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.51 — 13,865 ratings — published 1965
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,885 ratings — published 1941
The Flood (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.68 — 90,497 ratings — published 1983
Swamplandia! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.29 — 61,376 ratings — published 2011
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,107 ratings — published 2010
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 44,306 ratings — published 2006
Cold Moon Over Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,184 ratings — published 1980
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,791,083 ratings — published 2018
Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga (Blackwater, #1-6)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,471 ratings — published 1983
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,228 ratings — published 2002
“There are situations considered "not fit for children." Many I know grew up with these situations. Eight-year-olds with the Sheriff's Office number memorized. Southernness is raking up countless bags of Magnolia leaves knowing you'll eventually get a few blooms.”
― Some Books Are Not For Sale
― Some Books Are Not For Sale
“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
