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Southern Gothic Books
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As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 189,264 ratings — published 1930
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,964,501 ratings — published 1960
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,337 ratings — published 1952
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 197,747 ratings — published 1929
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,633 ratings — published 1940
Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 275 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 56,484 ratings — published 1973
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,189 ratings — published 1955
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 42,118 ratings — published 2011
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.92 — 298,194 ratings — published 1994
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,419 ratings — published 1936
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 67,195 ratings — published 1932
The Violent Bear It Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,742 ratings — published 1960
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,985 ratings — published 1987
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,043 ratings — published 1971
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,772 ratings — published 1979
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 26,403 ratings — published 1968
The Elementals (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,555 ratings — published 1981
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 337,085 ratings — published 1947
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,242,871 ratings — published 2006
The Little Friend (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 129 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 83,880 ratings — published 2002
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 228,129 ratings — published 1985
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,104 ratings — published 2006
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,701 ratings — published 1951
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.74 — 17,875 ratings — published 1948
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,265 ratings — published 1965
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 149,896 ratings — published 2017
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 738,661 ratings — published 1966
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 69,556 ratings — published 2023
Sanctuary (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 15,032 ratings — published 1931
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,970 ratings — published 2000
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 391,665 ratings — published 1937
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 318,782 ratings — published 2020
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 48,178 ratings — published 1992
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.17 — 255,230 ratings — published 2005
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 656,433 ratings — published 1976
Swamplandia! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.28 — 60,587 ratings — published 2011
When the Reckoning Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,505 ratings — published 2021
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,340 ratings — published 1976
Summer Sons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.79 — 14,433 ratings — published 2021
The Orchard Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.51 — 13,352 ratings — published 1965
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,556 ratings — published 2010
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,519 ratings — published 1941
Revelator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,917 ratings — published 2021
The Boatman's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.49 — 6,130 ratings — published 2020
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,322 ratings — published 2006
La riada (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 84,856 ratings — published 1983
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,507 ratings — published 1946
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.06 — 26,258 ratings — published 1930
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 60 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,685,221 ratings — published 2018
Cold Moon Over Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as southern-gothic)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,404 ratings — published 1980
“A girl sits out-of-doors in her slip./ She turns fourteen, twenty-eight, fifty-six,/ goes crazy.”
― Deepstep Come Shining
― Deepstep Come Shining
“He was driving into a world where the owls roosted with the chickens. Where folks kept Whip-poor-wills for pets and didn't get the Saturday Night Opry till Monday morning.”
― I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
― I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
