317 books
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512 voters
Popular Southern Fiction Books
Popular Southern Fiction Books
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3,496)
The Help (Hardcover)
by Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author) (shelved 142 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 959,235 ratings — published 2009
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by Sue Monk Kidd (shelved 82 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 756,231 ratings — published 2002
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Audio CD)
by Beth Hoffman (Goodreads Author) (shelved 74 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 42,382 ratings — published 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by Harper Lee (shelved 73 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,681,111 ratings — published 1960
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by Fannie Flagg (shelved 62 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,666 ratings — published 1987
Gone with the Wind (Paperback)
by Margaret Mitchell (shelved 59 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 641,597 ratings — published 1936
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by Rebecca Wells (Goodreads Author) (shelved 45 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.70 — 362,872 ratings — published 1996
The Prince of Tides (Paperback)
by Pat Conroy (shelved 42 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 88,496 ratings — published 1986
The Peach Keeper (Hardcover)
by Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author) (shelved 39 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 54,749 ratings — published 2011
Between, Georgia (Paperback)
by Joshilyn Jackson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 39 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 9,416 ratings — published 2006
gods in Alabama (Paperback)
by Joshilyn Jackson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 39 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,787 ratings — published 2005
Backseat Saints (Hardcover)
by Joshilyn Jackson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 34 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,173 ratings — published 2010
Garden Spells (Hardcover)
by Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author) (shelved 34 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 47,779 ratings — published 2007
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by Charles Frazier (shelved 33 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 119,863 ratings — published 1994
Cold Sassy Tree (Paperback)
by Olive Ann Burns (shelved 33 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,253 ratings — published 1984
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author) (shelved 30 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,528 ratings — published 2010
South of Broad (Hardcover)
by Pat Conroy (shelved 30 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 25,907 ratings — published 2009
The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Hardcover)
by Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author) (shelved 29 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 35,004 ratings — published 2010
The Sugar Queen (Hardcover)
by Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author) (shelved 28 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,587 ratings — published 2008
Bastard Out of Carolina (Paperback)
by Dorothy Allison (shelved 28 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,990 ratings — published 1992
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty (Hardcover)
by Joshilyn Jackson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 25 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,284 ratings — published 2012
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by Kathleen Grissom (shelved 25 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 103,216 ratings — published 2010
Sullivan's Island (Lowcountry Tales #1)
by Dorothea Benton Frank (Goodreads Author) (shelved 25 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,719 ratings — published 2000
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by Alice Walker (shelved 24 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 260,922 ratings — published 1982
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
by Joshilyn Jackson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 23 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.41 — 7,157 ratings — published 2008
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by John Kennedy Toole (shelved 22 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 133,020 ratings — published 1980
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by Carson McCullers (shelved 21 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 55,500 ratings — published 1940
The Dry Grass of August (Paperback)
by Anna Jean Mayhew (Goodreads Author) (shelved 20 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,411 ratings — published 2011
Savannah Blues (Weezie and Bebe Mysteries, #1)
by Mary Kay Andrews (shelved 20 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,306 ratings — published 2002
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by Mark Twain (shelved 20 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 809,627 ratings — published 1884
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by William Faulkner (shelved 20 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 125,816 ratings — published 1929
Bloodroot (Hardcover)
by Amy Greene (Goodreads Author) (shelved 18 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 9,364 ratings — published 2010
Beach Music (Paperback)
by Pat Conroy (shelved 18 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 23,209 ratings — published 1995
Light in August (Paperback)
by William Faulkner (shelved 18 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 41,075 ratings — published 1932
Little Altars Everywhere (Paperback)
by Rebecca Wells (Goodreads Author) (shelved 17 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.49 — 21,833 ratings — published 1992
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (Miss Julia, #1)
by Ann B. Ross (shelved 17 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,353 ratings — published 1990
Hissy Fit (Paperback)
by Mary Kay Andrews (shelved 17 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,694 ratings — published 1994
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by Flannery O'Connor (shelved 17 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 24,760 ratings — published 1971
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by William Faulkner (shelved 17 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 84,128 ratings — published 1930
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by John Berendt (shelved 17 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 116,603 ratings — published 1994
I Still Dream About You (Hardcover)
by Fannie Flagg (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,870 ratings — published 2010
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
by Charlaine Harris (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 301,617 ratings — published 2001
The House on Tradd Street (Tradd Street, #1)
by Karen White (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,243 ratings — published 2008
The Fixer Upper (Hardcover)
by Mary Kay Andrews (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,556 ratings — published 2009
Plantation (Lowcountry Tales #2)
by Dorothea Benton Frank (Goodreads Author) (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,016 ratings — published 2001
Isle of Palms (Lowcountry Tales #3)
by Dorothea Benton Frank (Goodreads Author) (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,371 ratings — published 2003
Savannah Breeze (Weezie and Bebe Mysteries, #2)
by Mary Kay Andrews (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,420 ratings — published 2006
Gap Creek (Paperback)
by Robert Morgan (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.63 — 24,761 ratings — published 1999
Ellen Foster (Paperback)
by Kaye Gibbons (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,612 ratings — published 1987
Walking Across Egypt (Paperback)
by Clyde Edgerton (shelved 16 times as southern-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,881 ratings — published 1987
“There were thousands of children just like her in the world. She had walked through the fire and come out the other side scorched, but not consumed by it.”
― J.L. Murphey, Unknown Book 11614965
― J.L. Murphey, Unknown Book 11614965
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― Scott B. Pruden
― Scott B. Pruden






