10 best novels about the US Civil War

3. Gone with the Wind

You can't make a list of Civil War novels without including Margaret Mitchell's 1936 classic. Her story of a ravaged South – interwoven with the romance of plucky Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara and the roguish Rhett Butler – won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and went on to become one of the bestselling books of all time. The 1939 movie version starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh is perhaps equally beloved.

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