Best Southern Gothic Literature

100.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires 3.79 avg rating — 279,209 ratings
100.
A Taste of Shotgun
A Taste of Shotgun 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
103.
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories 4.01 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
104.
Sewing Holes
Sewing Holes 4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Sharp Objects
Sharp Objects 4.01 avg rating — 1,179,314 ratings
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Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 13,258 ratings
107.
A Tidewater Morning
A Tidewater Morning 3.88 avg rating — 1,402 ratings
108.
Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror
Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror 4.08 avg rating — 236 ratings
109.
Over the Plain Houses
Over the Plain Houses 3.69 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
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The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter 3.52 avg rating — 15,055 ratings
111.
An American Family: The Baby with the Curious Markings
An American Family: The Baby with the Curious Markings 3.04 avg rating — 117 ratings
112.
Gradle Bird
Gradle Bird 4.15 avg rating — 398 ratings
113.
'night, Mother
'night, Mother 3.91 avg rating — 12,567 ratings
113.
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works 4.49 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
113.
3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood
3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood 4.30 avg rating — 2,355 ratings
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The Wilds
The Wilds 3.80 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
117.
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen 3.78 avg rating — 14,254 ratings
118.
Snopes
Snopes 4.37 avg rating — 815 ratings
119.
The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 5,832 ratings
120.
The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do
The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do 3.75 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
120.
The Yearling
The Yearling 4.03 avg rating — 30,134 ratings
122.
We Almost Disappear
We Almost Disappear 4.12 avg rating — 72 ratings
123.
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher 3.85 avg rating — 83,630 ratings
124.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,198 ratings
125.
Time Done Been Won't Be No More
Time Done Been Won't Be No More 4.26 avg rating — 126 ratings
126.
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads 3.78 avg rating — 5,796 ratings
127.
The gypsy's curse;: A novel
The gypsy's curse;: A novel 4.07 avg rating — 529 ratings
127.
Fallen Land
Fallen Land 3.81 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
129.
Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain 3.89 avg rating — 248,109 ratings
130.
The Ballad of Tom Dooley (Ballad, #9)
The Ballad of Tom Dooley (Ballad, #9) 3.68 avg rating — 3,154 ratings
131.
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by: Anne Rice
4.02 avg rating — 633,846 ratings
132.
Legacy
Legacy 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
132.
The Rebel Wife
The Rebel Wife 3.22 avg rating — 1,445 ratings
132.
The Hunter, the Hunted and the Thief
The Hunter, the Hunted and the Thief 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
132.
The Albino Album
The Albino Album 3.89 avg rating — 101 ratings
132.
Bayou, Vol. 1
Bayou, Vol. 1 3.97 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
132.
This Side of the River
This Side of the River 3.70 avg rating — 76 ratings
132.
Blue's Point
Blue's Point 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
132.
Confederate Chipmunks & Carny Cooter (The Cobblepotts #1)
Confederate Chipmunks & Carny Cooter (The Cobblepotts #1) 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
132.
Burying the Honeysuckle Girls
Burying the Honeysuckle Girls 3.89 avg rating — 19,218 ratings
132.
Temple Secrets (Temple Secrets #1)
Temple Secrets (Temple Secrets #1) 4.02 avg rating — 2,635 ratings
132.
My Sweet Vidalia
My Sweet Vidalia 4.20 avg rating — 129 ratings
132.
Half in Shadow
Half in Shadow 3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings
132.
Calloustown
Calloustown 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings
132.
The Dying of the Light
The Dying of the Light 3.26 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
132.
Oyster
Oyster 3.74 avg rating — 506 ratings
132.
Clay's Quilt
Clay's Quilt 4.05 avg rating — 4,671 ratings
132.
The Casquette Girls (The Casquette Girls, #1)
The Casquette Girls (The Casquette Girls, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 4,412 ratings
132.
The Bourbon Thief
The Bourbon Thief 3.97 avg rating — 7,033 ratings
132.
Cold Moon Over Babylon
Cold Moon Over Babylon 3.98 avg rating — 5,459 ratings
132.
The Queen Bee
The Queen Bee 4.08 avg rating — 64 ratings
132.
Perilous Confessions (The Possession Chronicles, #1)
Perilous Confessions (The Possession Chronicles, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 70 ratings
132.
Wake the Bones
Wake the Bones 3.44 avg rating — 2,466 ratings
132.
Loving the Dead and Gone
Loving the Dead and Gone 4.07 avg rating — 243 ratings
132.
The Loved One
The Loved One 3.75 avg rating — 13,363 ratings
132.
A House with Good Bones
A House with Good Bones 3.67 avg rating — 57,867 ratings
157.
Burial To Follow
Burial To Follow 3.31 avg rating — 227 ratings
157.
Naked in Garden Hills
Naked in Garden Hills 4.08 avg rating — 324 ratings
157.
Dream Chaser
Dream Chaser 4.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
157.
All Things Bright and Strange
All Things Bright and Strange 3.54 avg rating — 615 ratings
157.
Southern Bastards, Vol. 1: Here Was a Man
Southern Bastards, Vol. 1: Here Was a Man 4.12 avg rating — 7,451 ratings
157.
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things 3.98 avg rating — 197,140 ratings
157.
One Mississippi
One Mississippi 3.71 avg rating — 4,667 ratings
157.
Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)
Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 616,823 ratings
157.
The White Ship
The White Ship 3.42 avg rating — 2,403 ratings
157.
Dark Sisters
Dark Sisters 4.31 avg rating — 125 ratings
167.
Blood Flats
Blood Flats 4.36 avg rating — 39 ratings
167.
Eve's Garden
Eve's Garden 4.52 avg rating — 29 ratings
167.
Southern Bastards, Vol. 2: Gridiron
Southern Bastards, Vol. 2: Gridiron 4.19 avg rating — 4,697 ratings
167.
Redemption Road
Redemption Road
by: John Hart
4.09 avg rating — 22,232 ratings
167.
Strange as This Weather Has Been
Strange as This Weather Has Been 3.88 avg rating — 1,492 ratings
167.
The Descendant
The Descendant 2.73 avg rating — 783 ratings
167.
The Storm
The Storm 4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
174.
Southern Bastards, Vol. 3: Homecoming
Southern Bastards, Vol. 3: Homecoming 4.20 avg rating — 2,671 ratings
174.
Me & Emma
Me & Emma 3.91 avg rating — 22,122 ratings
174.
Butcher's Crossing
Butcher's Crossing 4.18 avg rating — 31,894 ratings
174.
The Dunwich Horror
The Dunwich Horror 3.81 avg rating — 14,082 ratings
178.
The Winter Calf (Maple Gap #1)
The Winter Calf (Maple Gap #1) 4.18 avg rating — 68 ratings
178.
Dagon
Dagon 3.70 avg rating — 12,010 ratings
180.
The Mulching of America
The Mulching of America 3.47 avg rating — 647 ratings
180.
Long Man
Long Man 3.79 avg rating — 2,620 ratings
180.
Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
by: Greg Iles
4.17 avg rating — 40,929 ratings
180.
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Whisperer in Darkness 3.89 avg rating — 6,384 ratings
180.
The Wild Palms
The Wild Palms 3.86 avg rating — 5,693 ratings
185.
Bloodroot
Bloodroot 3.80 avg rating — 8,336 ratings
185.
Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage, #6)
Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage, #6)
by: Greg Iles
4.43 avg rating — 23,797 ratings
185.
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 45,418 ratings
185.
The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu 4.02 avg rating — 115,386 ratings
185.
Mudbound
Mudbound 4.05 avg rating — 69,751 ratings
190.
The Hawk Is Dying
The Hawk Is Dying 4.21 avg rating — 332 ratings
190.
Back Roads
Back Roads 3.75 avg rating — 26,827 ratings
190.
The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)
The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5)
by: Greg Iles
4.25 avg rating — 24,862 ratings
190.
An Inhabitant of Carcosa
An Inhabitant of Carcosa 3.67 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
190.
Baby Doll
Baby Doll 3.74 avg rating — 423 ratings
190.
A Land More Kind Than Home
A Land More Kind Than Home 3.88 avg rating — 28,440 ratings
196.
This Thing Don't Lead to Heaven
This Thing Don't Lead to Heaven 3.90 avg rating — 155 ratings
196.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 3.68 avg rating — 8,604 ratings
196.
3 By Flannery O'Connor
3 By Flannery O'Connor 4.30 avg rating — 2,355 ratings
196.
Pretender
Pretender 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Man of the Crowd
The Man of the Crowd 3.39 avg rating — 2,376 ratings
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