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Serious Southern Fiction
Notable fiction set in the American South, dealing with the peculiar steamy decadence of the South.
Related Genres
Family Sagas: The South
Humor: Southern/Small Town
Authors & Titles
- Agee, Jonis: South of Resurrection
- Allison, Dorothy: Bastard Out of Carolina
- Arnoult, Darnell: Sufficient Grace
- Bailey, Tom: Cotton Song
- Benoit, Brent: All Saints' Day
- Biguenet, John: Oyster
- Black, Daniel: They Tell Me of a Home
- Bradley, John Ed: My Juliet
- Brown, John Gregory: Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
- Brown, Larry: Fay
- Brown, Larry: A Miracle of Catfish
- Brown, Nic: Floodmarkers
- Burke, James Lee: Half of Paradise
- Burke, James Lee: Lay Down My Sword and Shield
(NOTE: This title is part of the Hackberry Holland series, listed under Regional Mysteries: Texas)
- Burke, James Lee: To the Bright and Shining Sun
- Burke, James Lee: Two for Texas
- Caldwell, Erskine: Tobacco Road
- Cheek, Stephen: Cane and Able
- Covington, Vicki: Gathering Home
- Covington, Vicki: Night Ride Home
- Cox, Elizabeth: The Slow Moon
- Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (edited by F. Brett Cox & Andy Duncan)
- Curtiss, Huston: Sins of the Seventh Sister
- Daugharty, Janice: Whistle
- Davis, Charles: Drifting South
- Davis, Rod: Corina's Way
- Dewberry, Elizabeth: Sacrament of Lies
- Dexter, Pete: Paris Trout
- Dickson, Athol: River Rising
- Downs, Greg: Spit Baths
- DuFresne, John: Deep in the Shade of Paradise
- DuFresne, John: Louisiana Power and Light
- Dunbar, Wylene: Margaret Cape
- Durban, Pam: The Laughing Place
- Durban, Pam: So Far Back
- Durkee, Lee: Rides of the Midway
- Edgerton, Clyde: The Floatplane Notebooks
- Edgerton, Clyde: Killer Diller
- Edgerton, Clyde: Raney
- Edgerton, Clyde: Walking Across Egypt
- Elliott, Scott: Coiled in the Heart
- Eppes, Cindy: South of Reason
- Faulkner, William: Yoknapatawpha County series
(in no particular order) "...because Faulkner did not catch his characters neatly between book covers but let them ramble with life-like imprecision from book to book, unraveling a satisfactory chronology is a major undertaking--certainly beyond the scope of this bibliography." -Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series by Janet and Jonathan Husband
- Sartoris
- The Sound and the Fury
- As I Lay Dying
- Sanctuary
- Light in August
- Absalom, Absalom!
- The Unvanquished
- The Hamlet (Snopes Trilogy #1)
- Go Down, Moses
- Intruder in the Dust
- Requiem For a Nun
- The Town (Snopes Trilogy #2)
- The Mansion (Snopes Trilogy #3)
- The Reivers
- Flags in the Dust
- Ford, Darnella: Finding Me
- Frank, Dorothea Benton: Lowcountry series
- Sullivan's Island
- Plantation
- Isle of Palms
- Shem Creek
- Pawleys Island
- Full of Grace
- The Land of Mango Sunsets
- Return to Sullivan's Island
- Lowcountry Summer
- Gay, William: The Long Home
- Gay, William: Provinces of Night
- Gearino, G.D.: Blue Hole
- George, Anne Carroll: This One and Magic Life
- Gibbons, Kaye: A Cure for Dreams
- Gibbons, Kaye: Ellen Foster series
- Ellen Foster
- The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster
- Gibbons, Kaye: A Virtuous Woman
- Gordon, Caroline: The Women on the Porch
- Gwyn, Aaron: Dog on the Cross
- Haines, Carolyn: Judas Burning
- Haines, Carolyn: Penumbra
- Haines, Carolyn: Summer of the Redeemers
- Haines, Carolyn: Touched
- Hall, Barbara: A Better Place
- Hall, Barbara: Close to Home
- Hannah, Barry: Yonder Stands Your Orphan
- Harris, William C. Jr.: Jesus Island series
- Delirium of the Brave
- No Enemy But Time
- Haynes, Melinda: Chalktown
- Haynes, Melinda: Mother of Pearl
- Haynes, Melinda: Willem's Field
- Hazelgrove, William Elliott: Tobacco Sticks
- Hermes, Myrlin A.: Careful What You Wish For
- Hill, David: Butterfly Sunday
- Hill, David: Sacred Dust
- Hill, Mars: The Moaner's Bench
- Howard, Ravi: Like Trees, Walking
- Hurston, Zora Neale: Jonah's Gourd Vine
- Hurston, Zora Neale: Moses, Man of the Mountain
- Hurston, Zora Neale: Mules and Men
- Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Jackson, Joshilyn: Between, Georgia
- Jackson, Joshilyn: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
- Jordan, Hillary: Mudbound
- Kagen, Lesley: Tomorrow River
- Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees
- Kingsbury, Suzanne: The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me
- Lansens, Lori: Rush Home Road
- Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lemann, Nancy: Malaise
- Lott, Bret: A Song I Knew by Heart
- Malone, Michael: Red Clay, Blue Cadillac
- Manley, Frank: True Hope
- Marius, Richard: Bourbon County series
- The Coming of Rain
- After the War
- An Affair of Honor
- Maron, Margaret: Last Lessons of Summer
- Mayes, Frances: Swan
- McCarthy, Cormac: The Orchard Keeper
- McCarthy, Susan Carol: True Fires
- McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- McFather, Nell: Southern Secrets
- Mda, Zakes: Cion
(NOTE: This title is part of the Toloki series, listed under Race Relations)
- Mitcham, Judson: Sabbath Creek
- Morris, Michael: Slow Way Home
- Morris, Scott M.: Waiting for April
- Morris, Willie: Taps
- Naslund, Sena Jeter: Four Spirits
- Neilson, Melany: The Persia Cafe
- New Stories From the South
- 1986 edition
- 1987 edition
- 1988 edition
- 1989 edition
- 1990 edition
- 1991 edition
- 1992 edition
- 1993 edition
- 1994 edition
- 1995 edition
- 1996 edition
- 1997 edition
- 1998 edition
- 1999 edition
- 2002 edition
- 2003 edition
- 2004 edition
- 2005 edition
- 2006 edition
- 2007 edition
- 2008 edition
- 2009 edition
- 2010 edition
- O'Connor, Flannery: Collected Stories
- O'Connor, Flannery: Everything That Rises Must Converge
- O'Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find and other stories
- O'Connor, Flannery: Wise Blood
- Odell, Jonathan: The View From Delphi
- Parker, Michael: Trent series
- Hello Down There
- Towns Without Rivers
- Patrick, Jennifer: The Night She Died
- Payne, David: Back to Wando Passo
- Pearson, T.R.: Blue Ridge
- Percy, Walker: The Last Gentleman
- Phillips, Gin: The Well and the Mine
- Piccirilli, Tom: A Choir of Ill Children
- Price, Reynolds: Great Circle series
- The Surface of Earth
- The Source of Light
- The Promise of Rest
- Pruett, Lynn: Ruby River
- Rash, Ron: One Foot in Eden
- Rash, Ron: Saints at the River
- Reynolds, April: Knee-Deep in Wonder
- Reynolds, Sheri: Bitterroot Landing
- Reynolds, Sheri: Firefly Cloak
- Reynolds, Sheri: The Rapture of Canaan
- Rubio, Gwyn Hyman: Icy Sparks
- Sanders, Dori: Clover
- Sanders, Dori: Her Own Place
- Sherman, Dayne: Welcome to the Fallen Paradise
- Smith, Deborah: On Bear Mountain
- Smith, Deborah: The Stone Flower Garden
- Smith, R.T.: Uke Rivers Delivers
- Spencer, Elizabeth: The Southern Woman
- Tartt, Donna: The Little Friend
- Trobaugh, Augusta: Swan Place
- Vernon, Olympia: Logic
- Ward, Jesmyn: Where the Line Bleeds
- Warren, Robert Penn: All the King's Men
- Watson, Brad: The Heaven of Mercury
- Watson, Sterling: Sweet Dream Baby
- Welty, Eudora: Losing Battles
- White, Susan Rebecca: Bound South
- Whitney, P.L.: This is Graceanne's Book
- Williams, Naomi: Two Rivers
- Williams, Tennessee: Collected Stories
- Wimberley, Darryl: A Tinker's Damn
- Wintner, Robert: In a Sweet Magnolia Time
- Woodrell, Daniel: Winter's Bone
- Yancey, Richard: A Burning in Homeland
- Yarbrough, Steve: Prisoners of War
- Zigal, Thomas: The White League
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