Hi! I’m currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird and, obviously, I’m loving it so far. Last month I read Gone with the Wind too and right now I’m currently exploring books with a southern setting (I don’t know if ‘southern gothic’ it’s the right term) about racism, family issues, war, religion… I’m from europe and I’m somehow very fascinated by the deep south. Can you suggest me novels with this vibe? Every genre.
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The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
In the electric mist with the confederate dead
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
The Barn, by Thompson is excellent about Mississippi. The Yellow House about New Orleans
Cold Sassy Tree. Anything by Pat Conroy. Anything by William Faulkner. A Time To Kill , Grisham. Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe.
If you want really southern and don’t mind them being older Eugenia Price
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc – Loraine Despres
Confederacy Of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
You might like “Soldier’s Joy” by Madison Smartt Bell.
Greg Iles, the Penn Cage series. And most by John Grisham
My Dog Skip by Willie Morris.
When We Were Yours – Lisa Wingate
A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
light in august
Light in August by William Faulkner