Beginner's Guide to Southern Gothic

1
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
16,902 members
238 reviews
3.9
3 Members
aulsmith, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
aulsmith: I'm not a big fan of southern gothic. but this book stuck with me.
2
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
4,723 members
110 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
sturlington: This book is a masterpiece of the southern Gothic.
3
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
2,865 members
57 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
4
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
2,641 members
55 reviews
4.2
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
5
Summer Sons
by Lee Mandelo
728 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
6
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
25,651 members
362 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
7
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
8,657 members
115 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
8
The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
8,092 members
171 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
9
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix
4,647 members
206 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
10
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
4,402 members
124 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
11
Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell
4,016 members
252 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
sturlington
12
Boy's Life
by Robert R. McCammon
2,924 members
113 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
13
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,854 members
63 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
14
Lost Souls
by Billy Martin
2,571 members
48 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
15
The House Next Door
by Anne Rivers Siddons
1,323 members
52 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
16
The Elementals
by Michael McDowell
1,054 members
59 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
17
The Reapers Are the Angels
by Alden Bell
1,028 members
119 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
18
Those Across the River
by Christopher Buehlman
842 members
86 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
19
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
by Cherie Priest
824 members
38 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
20
Cold Moon Over Babylon
by Michael McDowell
399 members
15 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
21
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,602 members
511 reviews
3.9
Explanations
bluepiano : not gothic
22
Love and Summer
by William Trevor
1,000 members
54 reviews
½ 3.7
Explanations
bluepiano : Not gothic. Not Southern. Not even American.