5 must-read southern books like Southernmost by Silas House

Cover of Southernmost by Silas House

Southernmost

By: Silas House

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles…

"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"

-Silas House, Southernmost

"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them going, to keep them strong."

-Silas House, Southernmost

If you liked the southern plot in Southernmost by Silas House , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Lure: A Novel by Felice Picano

1. The Lure: A Novel

By: Felice Picano

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

In 1979, Felice Picano rocketed to fame with the publication of this shocking, controversial thrill… read more

Similar categories in Felice Picano's The Lure: A Novel book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson

2. The Birds of Opulence

By: Crystal Wilkinson

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberriesand Water Streetco… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Wilkinson's The Birds of Opulence book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
Cover of By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Jethro Soutar

3. By Night the Mountain Burns

By: Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel , Jethro Soutar

2.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

By Night The Mountain Burnsrecounts the narrator's childhood on a remote island off the West Africa… read more

Similar categories in Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel's By Night the Mountain Burns book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • fiction

4. Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders

By: None

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining exploration into the death stories of our nation's greatest leaders--and the wild w… read more

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5. Fair and Tender Ladies

By: Lee Smith

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From Ivy Rowe's birth on Blue Star Mountain, her life is full of passion and longing as she writes … read more

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Cover of The Berry Pickers by Amanda    Peters

6. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

7. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Cover of James by Percival Everett

8. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Caretaker by Ron Rash

9. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of North Woods by Daniel       Mason

10. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

11. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

12. Demon Copperhead

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Cover of I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

13. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

Similar categories in Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

Cover of When These Mountains Burn by David    Joy

14. When These Mountains Burn

By: David Joy

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail hi… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's When These Mountains Burn book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It had never been that addicts don’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over."

-David Joy, When These Mountains Burn

Cover of Sandwich by Catherine Newman

15. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

Cover of Those We Thought We Knew by David    Joy

16. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

17. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

By: Cassie Chambers

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Chambers's Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • southern
  • audiobook
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"

-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Cover of Southernmost by Silas House

18. Southernmost

By: Silas House

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more

Similar categories in Silas House's Southernmost book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • southern
  • religion
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"

-Silas House, Southernmost

"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them …"

-Silas House, Southernmost

Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

19. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

20. Gay Poems for Red States

By: Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

4.56

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

No one will protect you. Months after being named the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Willie Edw… read more

Similar categories in Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.'s Gay Poems for Red States book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner

21. Colton Gentry's Third Act

By: Jeff Zentner

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A story of love, healing, and second chances ” (Emily Henry) following a down on his luck country … read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Colton Gentry's Third Act book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"His heart leapt like a murmuration of starlings taking flight. Every reach of him filled with light. He wondered how anyone survived this feeling he'd just named. This delirious sweetness. Maybe no o…"

-Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

Cover of Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia

22. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

By: Neema Avashia

4.26

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more

Similar categories in Neema Avashia's Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of All the Colors of the Dark by Chris  Whitaker

23. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson

24. Perfect Black

By: Crystal Wilkinson

4.65

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

2022 NAACP Image Award Winner Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a … read more

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Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore

25. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The North Line by Matt Riordan

26. The North Line

By: Matt Riordan

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Matt Riordan’s debut novel, a college student in need of quick money finds work on an Alaskan fi… read more

Similar categories in Matt Riordan's The North Line book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Weird but Normal: Essays by Mia Mercado

27. Weird but Normal: Essays

By: Mia Mercado

3.50

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It’s all weird, but also pretty normal. Navigatin… read more

Similar categories in Mia Mercado's Weird but Normal: Essays book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • audiobook
Cover of A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson

28. A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age

By: Alec Wilkinson

3.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Wilkinson has accomplished something more moving and… read more

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Cover of Burn by Peter Heller

29. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Once These Hills by Chris McGinley

30. Once These Hills

By: Chris McGinley

4.55

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

It’s 1898. Up on Black Boar Mountain in eastern Kentucky, life is quiet for the small settlement of… read more

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Cover of The Shutouts by Gabrielle  Korn

31. The Shutouts

By: Gabrielle Korn

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant queer dystopian novel from the author of Yours for the Taking, following a cast of char… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Korn's The Shutouts book and Silas House's Southernmost

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

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