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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1976
  • Latest Book:
    July 2014
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Anne Rivers Siddons was an American novelist who wrote stories set in the southern United States. She died of lung cancer at the age of 83.

Born: Jan 09, 1936 · Fairburn, GA
Died: Sep 11, 2019 · Charleston, SC

Book List in Order: 21 titles



  • Alabama, 1956: While Elvis Presley was singing about love, one young woman was learning about life.

    Everyone loves Maggie Deloach, one of the most popular girls on campus with everything going for her. An impeccable lineage. Picture-perfect looks...



  • THEIR LIVES WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios. But when construction of a beautiful new home begins i...



  • "A lusty Southern saga, this Gothic extravaganza of greed, madness and murder is a wicked brew, passionate and perverse....Excellently written."
    COSMOPOLITAN
    Ruth Yancey knew she was beautiful, she knew she was special. Despite her squalid Geor...



  • "Anne Rivers Siddons...writes with such astonishing lyrical beauty that you will want to read it aloud to everyone you ever loved."  --  Pat ConroyAfter twenty-one years Micah (Mike) Winship is making the big move--she's going home for a v...



  • He would make her whole againLeaving behind a disastrous marriage, Andy Calhoun moves to the small town of Pemberton, Georgia, "in search of banality." What she discovers, though, is not serenity, but Tom Dabney, a passionate and magical man.An exube...



  • “A blockbuster of a novel. . . . Peachtree Road is the meaty and absorbing story of a city turned on to power and of the privileged inhabitants who led it to its current station as a mecca of business, culture, and progress. . . . To say this book ...



  • “Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done. . . incredibly rich characterizations and a profound sense of place.”  --  CosmopolitanIn her magnificent classic Outer Banks, acclaimed New ...



  • "An outstanding multigenerational novel...We are hooked from the moment we meet Maude."  --New York TimesAn unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons. When Maude Chambliss f...



  • Hill Towns is a classic novel of remarkable emotional power, insight, and sensitivity from Anne Rivers Siddons, whose books live on the New York Times bestseller list and in the hearts of millions of her adoring fans. One of the acknowledged masters ...






  • The year is 1966, a time of innocence, possibility,and freedom. And for Atlanta, the country, and one woman making her way in a changing world, nothing will be the same . . .After an airless childhood in Savannah, Smoky O'Donnell arrives in Atlanta, ...



  • Anne Rivers Siddons invites you into her home and her heart

    In this collection of heartfelt and involving vignettes, Anne Rivers Siddons--the beloved bestselling author of Downtown, Hill Towns, and Colony--offers a stirring ...



  • “A literary meteor shower....One great read.” -- Detroit NewsA classic from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons, Fault Lines is the powerful and deeply moving story of three women on a life-changing road trip up the California ...



  • “A wonderful story. . . .Siddons has returned to what she does best: gives us a book full of laughter and adventure that has enough soul to leave us with something to think about after we finish reading.”   --  Detroit News/Free PressFr...



  • Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband -- and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and dinners hosting her husband's wealthy friends, clients, and associates i...



  • At twelve, Peyton McKenzie isn't ready to share her widowed father with anyone, let alone Nora, her redheaded, cigarette-smoking cousin who just rolled into town behind the wheel of a pink Thunderbird. But her father seems to like Nora, and she does ...



  • “Anne Rivers Siddons’s novels are women’s stories in the best sense, pulling you into the internal landscape of her characters’ lives and holding you there.” " PeopleA poignant novel of the love that unites us and the secrets that drive u...



  • Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter survived her mother's abandonment and her beloved older brother's death -- and now finds purpose in training her father's magnificent spaniels . . . and refuge in the magic of Sweetwater Creek. But a new friend has...



  • #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons moves from the Low Country to the wild coast of Maine to tell a tale of first love, marriage, and the secrets that determine our lives. For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lil...



  • From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose life is forever changed by the betrayal of her mother and by the man she loves Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was ...






  • Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began in their twenties when their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. The only crit...



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    Colony: As aged Maude Chambliss waits to be taken home by her granddaughter, she recalls her summers at Retreat, a colony in Maine: from her arrival in 1921 as a young bride, fresh from South Carolina, a misfit amid these wealthy Bostonians, to he...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anne Rivers Siddons has published 21 books.

Anne Rivers Siddons does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Girls of August, was published in July 2014.

The first book by Anne Rivers Siddons, Heartbreak Hotel, was published in October 1976.

No. Anne Rivers Siddons does not write books in series.