Books Set in Southern States
Novels and stories set in Southern States, mostly lesbian & sapphic fiction, paranormal romance and gay fiction. The most-read are The Color Purple (1976), Kindred (1979) and Scarlett (1991).
This list collects 31 books in this collection by 30 authors, published between 1900 and 2011. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler, SparkNotes

Scarlett
Alexandra Ripley

The House Behind the Cedars
Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Ashes in the Wind
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Club Dead
Charlaine Harris

The House Next Door
Anne Rivers Siddons

Dream Boy
Jim Grimsley

Collected Stories of William Faulkner
William Faulkner

Trash
Dorothy Allison

Lie down in Darkness
William Styron

The Night Before
Lisa Jackson

Peau
Dorothy Allison

The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Steven Sherrill

Dixiana Moon
Fox, William, William Price Fox

Sea Change
Aimee Friedman

Sweetheart
Peter McGehee

Labour of Love
Doug Wilson

If the South had won the Civil War
MacKinlay Kantor

Demon hunting in Dixie
Lexi George

Sister Tricksters
Robert D. San Souci

The curse of the Raven Mocker
Marly Youmans

Jump!
Van Dyke Parks

Your Loving Arms
Gwendolyn Bikis

Growing and Planting Containerized Seedlings
Williston, Hamlin L.

Payback
Celia Cohen

Autobiography in Walker Percy
Edward J. Dupuy

Gothic traditions and narrative techniques in the fiction of Eudora Welty
Ruth D. Weston

Utilization of the Southern Pines
Koch, Peter

Robert Penn Warren's circus aesthetic and the Southern renaissance
Patricia L. Bradley

General Instructions for Artifical Reforestation of Southern Pine
Southern Seed Company