Cover of Gone with the Wind

Historical · Romance

Gone with the Wind

Bestseller: about 30 million copies (estimate)

Headstrong Scarlett O'Hara survives the American Civil War and its aftermath in Georgia, determined to save her family's plantation at any cost, while chasing the wrong man and brushing off the right one.

First published
1936
Pace
medium
Length
long
Format
Standalone

Read this if you want a huge, immersive historical epic with a fierce, flawed heroine.

Skip this if you won't read a romanticised, sympathetic portrait of the Old South and its treatment of slavery.

The feel

Content warnings

  • War
  • Racism
  • Slavery
  • Violence
  • Death

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