Recs if you like Wise Blood...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

A list of 100 gothic classics which covers over 250 years of literature, from the high-drama castles of the 1700s to the psychological "New Gothic" of today.

Family Secrets. Decay. Death. Rebirth.

Books set firmly in the Southern Gothic genre or books that incorporate Southern Gothic elements.

classics written by women

God loves you, but not enough to save you from these stories. Ethel Cain & Preacher’s Daughter vibes/inspired fiction

I see a few lists on here with this theme, but they were short themselves - and I was looking for a more diverse selection. So, thought I'd make my own list and share it! Nice for reading goals, but mostly, I like breaking up the rhythm if I'm reading something exceptionally long.

Books that feel like, “I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.” — Flannery O’Connor AND “Let us take a knife and cut the world in two—and see what worms are eating at the rind.” — Langston Hughes

TLDR; The southern gothic, the grit lit, the darkened, beautiful, rotten, heady places of the South.

Ethel Cain’s bookshelf. Haunted churches, dirt roads, and hymns gone sour.

Great for AP Literature, going to college, or tastefully expanding your library.