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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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