Best Southern Gothic Books — Community Picks

Discover the top Southern Gothic books as rated by the RateYourReads community. 70 books in this genre.

• A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Paradise by Toni Morrison
• A Painted House by John Grisham
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• The Lottery, or The Adventures of James Harris by Shirley Jackson
• The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack