Best Southern Gothic Literature

1.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,546 ratings
2.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,266 ratings
3.
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,460 ratings
4.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,325 ratings
5.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 3.92 avg rating — 289,193 ratings
6.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,597 ratings
7.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,833 ratings
8.
Wise Blood
Wise Blood 3.82 avg rating — 36,557 ratings
9.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,920 ratings
10.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire 3.98 avg rating — 328,868 ratings
11.
Light in August
Light in August 3.94 avg rating — 65,240 ratings
12.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,428 ratings
13.
The Kestrel Waters
The Kestrel Waters 4.28 avg rating — 178 ratings
14.
Child of God
Child of God 3.82 avg rating — 52,906 ratings
15.
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories 4.06 avg rating — 26,125 ratings
16.
Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone 3.86 avg rating — 38,154 ratings
17.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces 3.89 avg rating — 291,767 ratings
18.
Wicked Temper
Wicked Temper 3.78 avg rating — 264 ratings
19.
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories 4.22 avg rating — 21,771 ratings
20.
Deliverance
Deliverance 3.89 avg rating — 33,569 ratings
21.
Outer Dark
Outer Dark 3.89 avg rating — 24,134 ratings
22.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 4.06 avg rating — 63,545 ratings
23.
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Other Voices, Other Rooms 3.75 avg rating — 17,275 ratings
24.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,015 ratings
25.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
The Ballad of the Sad Café 3.79 avg rating — 25,466 ratings
26.
Twilight
Twilight 3.95 avg rating — 3,016 ratings
27.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter 3.83 avg rating — 45,893 ratings
28.
Suttree
Suttree 4.20 avg rating — 27,010 ratings
29.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,387 ratings
30.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time 4.14 avg rating — 39,416 ratings
31.
The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away 4.07 avg rating — 15,072 ratings
32.
Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road 3.71 avg rating — 15,711 ratings
33.
Red Lory
Red Lory 3.46 avg rating — 279 ratings
34.
Sanctuary
Sanctuary 3.63 avg rating — 14,457 ratings
35.
A Feast of Snakes
A Feast of Snakes 4.01 avg rating — 5,073 ratings
36.
Provinces of Night
Provinces of Night 4.20 avg rating — 2,878 ratings
37.
Joe
Joe 4.17 avg rating — 3,628 ratings
38.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.20 avg rating — 8,257 ratings
39.
Some Small Magic
Some Small Magic 3.92 avg rating — 313 ratings
40.
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories 4.30 avg rating — 2,138 ratings
41.
Serena
Serena
by: Ron Rash
3.55 avg rating — 36,784 ratings
42.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.24 avg rating — 7,824 ratings
43.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.31 avg rating — 2,548 ratings
44.
Steal Away Home
Steal Away Home 3.52 avg rating — 357 ratings
45.
The Little Friend
The Little Friend 3.48 avg rating — 79,034 ratings
46.
There Will Be Stars
There Will Be Stars 3.80 avg rating — 334 ratings
47.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,879 ratings
48.
The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,350 ratings
49.
The Long Home
The Long Home 4.03 avg rating — 2,746 ratings
50.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,289 ratings
51.
Swamplandia!
Swamplandia! 3.28 avg rating — 59,343 ratings
52.
The Gospel Singer
The Gospel Singer 4.22 avg rating — 1,827 ratings
53.
Tomato Red
Tomato Red 3.80 avg rating — 3,480 ratings
54.
This Dark Road to Mercy
This Dark Road to Mercy 3.79 avg rating — 9,593 ratings
55.
Compulsion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #1)
Compulsion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
56.
Gone South
Gone South 3.99 avg rating — 7,625 ratings
57.
The Bottoms
The Bottoms 4.19 avg rating — 9,487 ratings
58.
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place 4.35 avg rating — 2,816 ratings
59.
Bootlicker
Bootlicker 4.26 avg rating — 46 ratings
60.
The Prince of Tides
The Prince of Tides 4.26 avg rating — 213,975 ratings
61.
Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South
Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
62.
The Knockout Artist
The Knockout Artist 3.96 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
63.
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Reflections in a Golden Eye 3.84 avg rating — 7,038 ratings
64.
Give Us a Kiss
Give Us a Kiss 3.94 avg rating — 1,496 ratings
65.
The Orchard Keeper
The Orchard Keeper 3.52 avg rating — 12,465 ratings
66.
The Lords of Discipline
The Lords of Discipline 4.34 avg rating — 29,674 ratings
67.
Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand
Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand 3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings
67.
The Elementals
The Elementals 3.99 avg rating — 21,709 ratings
67.
All the King's Men
All the King's Men 4.09 avg rating — 65,738 ratings
67.
So Many Things To Bury
So Many Things To Bury it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
71.
The Curse of Crow Hollow
The Curse of Crow Hollow 3.63 avg rating — 883 ratings
72.
The Devil Walks in Mattingly
The Devil Walks in Mattingly 3.65 avg rating — 452 ratings
73.
The Keepers of the House
The Keepers of the House 4.01 avg rating — 13,373 ratings
74.
Galveston
Galveston 3.72 avg rating — 15,365 ratings
75.
My Sunshine Away
My Sunshine Away 3.57 avg rating — 18,635 ratings
76.
The Death of Sweet Mister
The Death of Sweet Mister 3.90 avg rating — 3,452 ratings
77.
And the Ass Saw the Angel
And the Ass Saw the Angel
by: Nick Cave
3.85 avg rating — 11,131 ratings
78.
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia 3.93 avg rating — 4,445 ratings
79.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3.92 avg rating — 996,642 ratings
80.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating — 321,368 ratings
81.
The Great Santini
The Great Santini 4.16 avg rating — 34,303 ratings
81.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,361 ratings
83.
In the Heart of the Dark Wood
In the Heart of the Dark Wood 3.67 avg rating — 443 ratings
83.
In the Pines
In the Pines 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
85.
The Secret Sense of Wildflower (Wildflower #1)
The Secret Sense of Wildflower (Wildflower #1) 4.13 avg rating — 1,757 ratings
86.
Music of the Swamp
Music of the Swamp 4.08 avg rating — 666 ratings
87.
Body
Body 3.88 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
88.
The Water Is Wide
The Water Is Wide 4.17 avg rating — 26,373 ratings
89.
Scar Lover
Scar Lover 3.75 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
90.
Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses 3.93 avg rating — 10,440 ratings
91.
The Portable Poe
The Portable Poe 4.28 avg rating — 2,192 ratings
92.
Beach Music
Beach Music 4.18 avg rating — 53,726 ratings
93.
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature 4.06 avg rating — 86 ratings
94.
The Weight of Blood
The Weight of Blood 3.76 avg rating — 23,021 ratings
95.
Car
Car 3.97 avg rating — 808 ratings
96.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,257,993 ratings
97.
The Resurrectionist
The Resurrectionist 3.59 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
97.
Boy With Wings
Boy With Wings 3.87 avg rating — 134 ratings
97.
The Wretched and Undone
The Wretched and Undone 3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
100.
Celebration
Celebration 3.67 avg rating — 729 ratings
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