Anne Rivers Siddons Books in Order

This early collection gathers Siddons's personal essays about Atlanta, family, and the evening news anchor whose broadcasts bookend her days. Moving with the seasons, she reflects on politics, parenting, weather, and small domestic rituals to sketch the texture of one Southern city in a time of change.

Pretty, privileged Maggie Deloach arrives at a small Alabama college intent on sorority life, the right fiancé, and a predictable future. As the civil rights movement erupts around her, one act of conscience pulls her into protest, costs her social standing, and forces her to decide what she really believes.

Written as a McDonald City Guide, this nonfiction book leads readers through late 1970s Atlanta, from landmarks and neighborhoods to restaurants and nightlife. Siddons mixes practical directions with wry observations, capturing a booming Southern city just before it fully remade itself.

Colquitt Kennedy and her husband cherish their quiet Atlanta cul de sac until a striking new house rises on the lot next door. As each new family who moves in is destroyed by scandal or tragedy, Colquitt comes to believe the house itself is hunting them.

Ruth Yancey grows up dirt poor and abused in a Georgia mill town, but she is determined to claim the grand mansion called Fox's Earth for herself. Through charm and ruthless manipulation she dominates her husband, child, and granddaughters, until a younger woman finally challenges the destructive legacy she has built.

Micah Winship fled her Georgia hometown after clashing with her father over civil rights, building a career as a hard edged journalist. Twenty years later she reluctantly returns to help care for him and is drawn into a fight over the family farm, an old love, and what home really means.

From childhood in a Buckhead mansion through decades of Atlanta's explosive growth, narrator Shep Bondurant is bound to his beautiful, volatile cousin Lucy. Their intertwined lives, and Lucy's long slide into scandal and addiction, mirror a city wrestling with race, class, and the price of Southern gentility.

Leaving a violent marriage, Andy Calhoun moves with her young daughter to Pemberton, an old money Georgia hunting town, hoping for anonymity. Instead she is drawn to Tom Dabney, a wild poet living in the woods, whose fierce battle against a nearby nuclear arms plant drags Andy into a conflict between safety, love, and the land.

Once, four very different sorority sisters forged an intense friendship during spring breaks on the North Carolina Outer Banks. Nearly thirty years later, Kate, Cecie, Ginger, and Fig reunite at a beach house, where illness, old jealousy, and the reappearance of a past love force them to confront what they did to each other.

Maude Gascoigne, a young woman from a fading South Carolina plantation, marries into a proud Boston banking family and is introduced to Retreat, their exclusive Maine summer colony. Across generations of marriages, betrayals, and whispered scandals, Maude fights to hold her fractured family together and claim the seaside refuge as her own.

Catherine Gaillard has spent her life sheltered in a Tennessee college town, afraid to leave its safe boundaries. When she finally agrees to travel through Italy with her professor husband and a younger couple, the beauty and chaos of the hill towns push her into a risky love and a reckoning with her marriage.

In the spring of 1966, Smoky O'Donnell leaves her working class Savannah family for a job at Atlanta's edgy new magazine, Downtown. As the civil rights movement and pop culture transform the city, she learns to navigate newsroom politics, romance, and her own shift from obedient daughter to outspoken reporter.

Atlanta homemaker Merritt Fowler has spent her life tending everyone else, from her demanding husband and domineering mother in law to her fragile teenage daughter, Glynn. When Glynn runs away to stay with glamorous Aunt Laura in California, the three women end up in a redwood hideaway where an earthquake and a new love shake Merritt's carefully arranged world.

Molly Redwine has spent decades as a comfortable Atlanta wife and mother, until her husband asks for a divorce and her difficult mother dies. Shaken and adrift, she escapes to Martha's Vineyard, where caring for two elderly cousins, a sick young man, and her grieving father forces her to build a self she can live with.

Caroline Venable seems to have it all, from a powerful developer husband to an easy Charleston social life, but her heart belongs to the wild Lowcountry island she inherited from her grandfather. When she learns her husband plans to build a resort there, Caroline must choose between saving the island and saving her marriage.

In 1961 small town Georgia, shy tomboy Peyton McKenzie lives with her distant father and bossy aunt, convinced she carries a terrible secret. Then her glamorous, rule breaking cousin Nora roars into town in a pink convertible, upending local manners and forcing Peyton to see her world differently.

Child welfare advocate Anny Butler finally finds a family when she marries charming surgeon Lewis Aiken and joins his lifelong Charleston circle, the Scrubs, at their beloved Sullivan's Island beach house. As hurricanes, accidents, and betrayals accumulate, Anny has to face what belonging really costs.

Twelve year old Emily Parmenter lives on her family's South Carolina plantation, raising spaniels with her father and hiding from the pain of her mother's abandonment and brother's suicide. When glamorous, damaged Lulu Foxworth comes to stay, their intense friendship and Lulu's secrets threaten Emily's fragile sense of safety.

In this lively stage retelling set in Italy, Rapunzel grows up mixing herbs, healing villagers, and dreaming of adventure before she is suddenly locked in a tower. Surrounded by magic bushes, scheming princes, mafia bosses, and a surprisingly helpful pig, she fights to reclaim her freedom and choose her own future.

After her architect husband dies suddenly, sculptor Lilly Constable McCall retreats to her family's cottage on the Maine coast. There she relives the pivotal summer of her childhood, first love, and rivalry, and must decide what those memories mean for the rest of her life.

Atlanta heiress Thayer Wentworth grows up torn between a chilly mother and a beloved grandmother, finding brief freedom as a counselor at a mountain summer camp. Years later, happily married to a charismatic Celtic folklore professor, she discovers his new boys' camp on Burnt Mountain hides something far darker than myth.

For years four doctors' wives escaped each August to a secluded beach house, until a sudden death shattered the ritual. When they reunite on a remote South Carolina barrier island with a much younger new friend, old grief, rivalries, and dangerous secrets surface in the summer heat.