Fiction

Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. New York, NY: Vintage, 1999. Well, not exactly fiction but far from completely true, nonetheless this modern classic definitely reads like a novel while remaining one of the unique and readable travelogues of recent times.

Conroy, Pat. The Lords of Discipline. New York, NY: Bantam, 1985. For all practical purposes set at the Citadel, this novel takes you behind the scenes of the notoriously insular Charleston [1] military college.

Conroy, Pat. The Water is Wide. New York, NY: Bantam, 1987. Immortal account of Conroy’s time teaching African American children in a two-room schoolhouse on “Yamacraw” (actually Daufuskie) Island.

Hervey, Harry. The Damned Don’t Cry. Marietta, GA: Cherokee Publishing, 2003. The original Midnight, this bawdy 1939 potboiler takes you into the streets, shanties, drawing rooms, and boudoirs of real Savannahians during the Depression.

O’Connor, Flannery. Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works. Library of America, 1988. For a look into Savannah [2]’s conflicted, paradoxical soul, read anything by this native-born writer, so grounded in tradition yet so ahead of her time even to this day. This volume includes selected letters, an especially valuable (and entertaining) insight.