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Small Town Life: The Dark Side
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June 2001
Compiled by Suzanne Booker
of Monroe County Public Library,
Bloomington, IN, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina
Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio
Russell Banks Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter
Charles Beaumont The Intruder
Suzanne Berne A Crime in the Neighborhood
John Bilheimer The Contrary Blues
Erskine Caldwell Tobacco Road
Truman Capote In Cold Blood (nonfiction)
Caroline Chute The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Mary Higgins Clark On the Street Where You Live
Thomas Cook The Chatham School Affair
Harry Crews Celebration
Stephen Dobyns The Church of Dead Girls
Theodor Dreiser An American Tragedy
Elizabeth Engstrom Lizzie Borden
Peter Eugenides The Virgin Suicides
William Faulkner The Yoknapatawpha novels
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm
Martha Grimes The End of the Pier
John Grisham A Time to Kill, A Painted House
Elizabeth Hand Black Light
Thomas Hardy The Wessex novels (especially Jude the Obscure)
John Hassler Staggerford, Grand Opening
Nathanial Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Joan Hess The Magoddy mysteries
Janet Turner Hospital Oyster
Shirley Jackson The Lottery, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Stephen King Desperation, Needful Things, It, Salems Lot
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Joe R. Lansdale The Bottoms, Rumble Tumble, Bad Chili etc.
Letourneau Used Auto Parts
Ira Levin The Stepford Wives
Sinclair Lewis Main Street, Babbitt
Ross Lockridge, Jr. Raintree County
Charlotte MacLeod The Grub and Stakers mysteries
Cormac McCarthy The Orchard Keeper
Sharyn McCrumb She Walks These Hills, The Rosewood Casket etc.
Carson McCullers Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Larry McMurtry The Last Picture Show
Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology (poetry)
Grace Metalious Peyton Place
Flannery O'Connor The Complete Stories
Tawni O'Dell Back Roads
T.R. Pearson Cry Me a River
Frank Peretti The Oath
Jodie Picoult Salem Falls
David Prill Serial Killer Days
Andrew Pyper The Lost Girls
Ellery Queen The Glass Village
Philip Roth The Human Stain
William Satterthwait Miss Lizzie
Paullina Simons Red Leaves
Scott Smith A Simple Plan
John Steinbeck The Moon is Down
Donna Tartt The Secret History
Thomas Tryon Harvest Home
Larry Watson Montana 1948
Daniell Woodrell Give Us a Kiss, Tomato Red etc (Ozark Gothic)
John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos
Margaret Yorke mysteries
John Yount Hardcastle
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