Books about the Southeast United States


Check out our Book Lists and Reviews of Southeast United States recommended reading:


American SouthEAST - General

Fiction

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


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

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