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RamblingRose

(1,104 posts) Fri Jun 2, 2023, 09:36 PM Jun 2023

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Looking for recs for historical fiction set in Savannah, Coastal GA, SC, NC, Sapelo Island.

I thought I had a link for historical fiction travel books.

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Looking for recs for historical fiction set in Savannah, Coastal GA, SC, NC, Sapelo Island. (Original Post) RamblingRose Jun 2023 OP

Great idea. cachukis Jun 2023 #1

You got a rec from me! True Dough Jun 2023 #2

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil vanlassie Jun 2023 #3

I'm wondering if there are any books about the regions' history w/ slavery & the Gullah people n/t RamblingRose Jun 2023 #4

Julie Dash, japple Jun 2023 #6

Thanks RamblingRose Jun 2023 #7

Here are a few. I highly recommend the 1st 3 japple Jun 2023 #5

Thank you RamblingRose Jun 2023 #8

I'll do the states thing, and then you can narrow down from there ExWhoDoesntCare Jun 2023 #9

Try Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2023 #10

cachukis

(2,924 posts)

1. Great idea.

Reply to RamblingRose (Original post)

Fri Jun 2, 2023, 09:38 PM

Jun 2023

True Dough

(22,164 posts)

2. You got a rec from me!

Reply to RamblingRose (Original post)

Fri Jun 2, 2023, 09:38 PM

Jun 2023

Kick and rec!

vanlassie

(5,923 posts)

3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Reply to RamblingRose (Original post)

Sat Jun 3, 2023, 01:17 AM

Jun 2023

Written like a novel. True story.

RamblingRose

(1,104 posts)

4. I'm wondering if there are any books about the regions' history w/ slavery & the Gullah people n/t

Reply to RamblingRose (Original post)

Sat Jun 3, 2023, 08:42 AM

Jun 2023

japple

(10,453 posts)

6. Julie Dash,

Reply to RamblingRose (Reply #4)

Sun Jun 4, 2023, 08:09 PM

Jun 2023

Daughters of the Dust https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0923MNCF4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

RamblingRose

(1,104 posts)

7. Thanks

Reply to japple (Reply #6)

Sun Jun 4, 2023, 10:45 PM

Jun 2023

japple

(10,453 posts)

5. Here are a few. I highly recommend the 1st 3

Reply to RamblingRose (Original post)

Sun Jun 4, 2023, 01:14 PM

Jun 2023

Susan Straight, I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

James McBride, Song Yet Sung

Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

Pamela Bauer Mueller, Water To My Soul: The Story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney

Pat Conroy, The Water is Wide and The Prince of Tides
almost all of his books are set in coastal SC

DuBose Heyward, Mamba’s Daughters

Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary

RamblingRose

(1,104 posts)

8. Thank you

Reply to japple (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 4, 2023, 10:57 PM

Jun 2023

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)

9. I'll do the states thing, and then you can narrow down from there

Reply to RamblingRose (Original post)

Thu Jun 8, 2023, 08:17 AM

Jun 2023

Georgia: https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/georgia-the-state?genres=219

North Carolina: https://www.theuncorkedlibrarian.com/books-set-in-north-carolina/#Women%E2%80%99s_Historical_Fiction_Books_Set_In_North_Carolina

Also: https://flyingoffthebookshelf.com/books-about-north-carolna/

South Carolina: https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/south-carolina?genres=219

Also: https://www.julesbuono.com/books-set-in-south-carolina/

Most of the links, you'll have to scan to find the historical fiction, but it doesn't take long.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,430 posts)

10. Try Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow.

Reply to RamblingRose (Original post)

Mon Jun 19, 2023, 12:09 AM

Jun 2023

It's set in Charleston, SC, during the American Revolution.

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