Beginner's Guide to Southern Gothic

1
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
16,887 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
4,721 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
2,864 members
56 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
727 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
6
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
25,629 members
363 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
7
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
8,649 members
115 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
8
The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
8,083 members
171 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
9
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix
4,626 members
206 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
10
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
4,401 members
124 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
11
Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell
4,013 members
252 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
sturlington
12
Boy's Life
by Robert R. McCammon
2,920 members
112 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
13
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,852 members
63 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
14
Lost Souls
by Billy Martin
2,574 members
48 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
15
The House Next Door
by Anne Rivers Siddons
1,322 members
52 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
16
The Elementals
by Michael McDowell
1,053 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
23,581 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.