Well, I am looking for someone to help me out with finding a good southern novel. One based in the south, rather old fashioned is nice but can be modern too. I love the Ann Rice series but have read them all. I have also read Fox's Earth by Anne Rivers Siddons if you know what I'm talking about. I love the sleepy southern town settings, african american influence, and the mystery(love, murder, betrayal) of the south. Also the architechture and everything, think New Orleans. Any good fiction or non-fiction books that have all or alot of these qualities?
2007-06-21 12:06:47 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Check out "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt
While Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, it is actually a magical non-fiction rendering of a secluded and hauntingly beautiful city in which an infamous murder took place. The book contains one beguiling and outrageous story after another--all true--in which Berendt offers up a rogue's gallery of true-life rascals, eccentrics and proper society folk who live behind the stately facades of Savannah's grandest houses.
An absolute gem of a read...
2007-06-21 12:13:49 · answer #1 · answered by Irish D.... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Along with To Kill a Mockingbird and Gone with the Wind, I suggest a series of books by Julie Smith. They are fiction and set in New Orleans.
2007-06-21 21:18:08 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Instantkarma♥♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. It's a funny book, set in New Orleans and written by a New Orleans native, published by LSU Press (Geaux Tigers!). Or "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy. That was a National Book Award winner.
2007-06-21 23:54:59 · answer #3 · answered by k9ergrease 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. As close to a perfect book as they come. You might also try Toni Morrison's Beloved. Another excellent book. Both are award winning masterpieces. Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is wonderful, too. Then, there is always Gone with the Wind. Pax - C
2007-06-21 19:10:02 · answer #4 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alice Hoffman's "Turtle Moon" southern as in small town Florida, a decent murder mystery and a very sweet dose of the supernatural...you'd have to read it to know what I mean by "sweet" but a novel I actually read a second time. Alexandra Ripley's "Scarlett" if you've already read GWTW, or actually anything of Hers-Charleston is also very good.
2007-06-21 19:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by lala611979 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fried Green Tomatoes. The Whitsle Stop Cafe anything by Fannie Flagg.
2007-06-21 19:09:05 · answer #6 · answered by chellyk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pat Conroy's Beach Music. I just finished it last night and I cried like a little baby. : ) It's an awesome book. Most of the book is based in Waterford, SC, between Charleston and Savannah, GA. It really is an awesome book.
2007-06-21 19:10:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a stereotypical book that not too many like but it pretty well-written, and you'll probably get a lot of replies with this--Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
2007-06-21 19:11:45 · answer #8 · answered by Insert nickname here 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For something a little edgy try Harry Crews and Larry Brown. Start with "The Knockout Artist," by Crews.
2007-06-21 22:32:37 · answer #9 · answered by Stephen L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Ya-Yas in Bloom are both good reads from Rebecca Wells
The book is very different from the film and, of course, much better
2007-06-21 19:23:59 · answer #10 · answered by becca7396 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋