Books about the Southeast United States
Check out our Book Lists and Reviews of Southeast United States recommended reading:
Guest post review of Swamplandia! by Karen Russell on The Uncorked Librarian’s blog featuring books set in Florida
Guest post review of Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward and Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith on The Uncorked Librarians’s blog featuring books set in the South
American SouthEAST - General
Fiction
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Non-Fiction
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
alabama
Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Non-Fiction
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
florida
Read all of our posts on Florida here
Fiction
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell - read our guest post review of this book on The Uncorked Librarian's blog here
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - Read our book review here
Georgia
Read all of our posts on Georgia here
Fiction
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
louisiana
Fiction
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Non-Fiction
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
mississippi
Fiction
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
north carolina
Read all of our posts on North Carolina here
Fiction
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living by Martin Clark
Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle
Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle
Non-Fiction
Blue Ridge Folklife by Ted Olson - read our book review here
south carolina
Read all of our posts on South Carolina here
Fiction
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
texas
Fiction
Texas by James Michener
Virginia
Read all of our posts on Virginia here
Fiction
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith (read our review)
Non-Fiction
The Man Who Moved a Mountain by Richard C. Davids (read our review)
Factory Man by Beth Macy
Truevine by Beth Macy
Blue Ridge Folklife by Ted Olson (read our review)
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
A Guide to the Crooked Road by Joe Wilson
Poetry
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
west virginia
Non-Fiction
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington