Great Fiction By Southern Writers
Discover the best fiction by Southern writers with our curated list of must-read books. Explore rich storytelling, deep characters, and iconic Southern literature.
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The Bottoms
by Joe R. Lansdale
In Depression-era East Texas, young Harry Crane discovers the body of a mutilated woman. As his father, the town constable investigates, Harry and his sister …
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Destiny of the Soul
by Heywood Steele
In 1968, Johnny Reno sold his soul to the Organization for a career in rock and roll. When fame and fortune became too much for …
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The Edge of the Water
by Michael McNabb
Now in his mid fifties, Doug Wallace takes a look back at the summer that not only changed, but directed his life for almost thirty …
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Out of Focus
by Michael McNabb
Set in Atlanta, this work is about hard-drinking, freelance photographer Dave Coleman who left the Atlanta police force seven years earlier after the murder of …
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These People are Us
by George Singleton
In George Singleton's smart and hilarious first book, characters that eerily resemble you and me try to make sense of modern absurdities: how to find …
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The Half-mammals of Dixie
by George Singleton
Presents a collection of short stories that captures the lives of such characters as a boy whose reputation is ruined forever after he stars in …
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Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks
by Greg Bottoms
"Like Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Joyce's Dubliners, or Isherwood's Berlin Stories, these stories about loss and redemption possess an evocative sense of place and society as …
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To the White Sea
by James Dickey
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Deliverance and Buckdancer's Choice comes the heart-stopping story of an American tail-gunner who parachutes from his burning plane into …
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Deliverance
by James Dickey
The canoe trip from hell. Classic take of four men caught in a primitive and violent test of manhood. Their adventure turns into a struggle …
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New Southern Harmonies
by Rosa Shand
The first collection of short stories from the Hub City Writers Project brings together the work of four award-winning fiction writers from South Carolina. New …
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Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
Ruth Ann Boatwright, a South Carolina bastard, tells her life with her family and the emotional and physical violence she experiences.
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Plantation
by Dorothea Benton Frank
Carolina Wimbley Levine had always sworn she'd never go home again, but when she must return to "see about Mother," she learns that Miss Lavinia, …
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A Walk to Remember
by Nicholas Sparks
A high school rebel and a minister's daughter find strength in each other in this star-crossed tale of "young but everlasting love" (Chicago Sun-Times). There …
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City Infernal
by Edward Lee
When Cassie's twin sister, Lissa, commits suicide, Cassie discovers she can travel to Hell to retrieve her sister's soul. Cassie thought she knew all about …
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A Patchwork Planet
by Anne Tyler
A lovable loser tries to get his life in order. He is Barnaby Gaitlin, 30, the black sheep of a rich Baltimore family, ex-juvenile delinquent …
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Beach Music
by Pat Conroy
An American living in Rome with his daughter after his wife's suicide tracks a classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both …
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Southern Blood
by Lawrence Schimel
Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the …