Southern Historical Fiction

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Southern historical fiction
• Focus on Gone with the Wind

The March 
By E. L Doctorow
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Doctorow is known for his lyrical language and ability to mesh accurate historical events with the most imaginative of historical fiction. In The March, Union General William Sherman marches through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the civil war. Doctorow depicts all of the death and destruction that come from this march, but also the love and care that spring up in its wake. 

The Wind Done Gone 
By Alice Randall
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Randall tells the tale of Cindy, the beautiful, illegitimate half-sister of Scarlett O'Hara. The book focuses on describing the seedy underbelly of the genteel south and un-romanticizing the south Margaret Mitchell illustrates.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 
By Carson McCullers
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Set in a Georgia Mill town in the 1930’s, John Singer, a deaf-mute, becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia. Each person’s goal is to escape their doomed small town. Generally considered a masterpiece of southern historical fiction, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is also a part of Oprah’s Bookclub.

The Help 
By Kathryn Stockett
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In Jackson Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the Civil Rights Movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women – black and white, mothers and daughters – view one another.

Some other YA authors you might want to try are John Green, Ellen Hopkins, or Ann Brashares.