Southern Comfort
Enjoy these books set in the American South.
The Judas Field by Howard Bahr
Twenty years after the Civil War, Alison Sansing returns to the battlefield that took the lives of her father and brother. A powerful story of the human cost of warfare.
Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
A coming of age story set in a fictional South Carolina military academy in the mid-1960s, from the incomparable author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides.
Bad Ground by W. Dale Cramer
Seventeen year-old Jeremy Prine hitchhikes from Tennessee to Georgia to fulfill his mother’s dying wish that he find his uncle, severely disfigured in the mining accident that killed Jeremy’s father.
Spinning Dixie by Eric Dezenhall
Presidential press secretary and spin doctor extraordinaire Jonah Eastman draws on his considerable expertise to help save a friend’s ancestral plantation, with some unexpected results.
The March by E.L. Doctorow
A powerful depiction of Sherman’s march through Georgia and the Carolinas. The March was the winner of the 2005 National Book Critic Circle Award for Fiction.
Strangers and Sojourners: Stories from the Lowcountry by Mary Potter Engel
The residents of fictional Coosawaw County tell their distinctive stories in twenty-one linked short tales.
Shem Creek: A Lowcountry Tale by Dorothea Benton Frank
A single mother and her two teenage daughters move to small coastal South Carolina town in search of a better life.
Bet Your Bottom Dollar: A Bottom Dollar Girls Novel by Karin Gillespie
Quirky characters, homespun wit, and Southern charm fuel this unlikely Cinderella story.
Flies on the Butter by Denise Hildreth
Washington lobbyist Rose Fletcher uses the drive home to South Carolina to reflect on her life, with the help of the eccentrics she meets on the way.
Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes by Cathy Holton
Three Southern belles discover that they are all dealing with cheating spouses and work together to concoct their revenge.
The Same Sweet Girls by Cathy Holton
Six women nearing fifty renew the friendship they formed in college by meeting every two years.
Between Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
A feud between two families from opposite sides of the tracks puts Nonny Frett between a rock and a hard place.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Eight-year-old Scout tells about growing up as the daughter of lawyer Atticus Finch in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. To Kill a Mockingbird is a beloved classic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961.
A Song I Know by Heart by Brett Lott
In this powerful depiction of grief and loss, a mother and daughter-in-law make a painful journey of reconciliation.
Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
The life and times of Rhett Butler, of Gone with the Wind fame, from his own perspective.
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
The winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, All the King’s Men tells the story of the rise and fall of Willie Stark, modeled on Louisiania kingpin Huey Long.
