Gone with the Wind question

Roses by Leila Meacham

The thorn Birds (is an australian familiar saga).
The house of the spirits (from Isabel Allende) all of you here will loooooove that book.
Out of Africa? I want to read it
The Scarlett letter (I loved the movie and I read the book last month, just horrible!!!)
Im planning to read Charleston from Alexandra Ripley, I think it's going to be gooood.
Lonesome dove??

The Blue Bicycle is often cited as the "French Gone With the Wind" so much that the French court decided the author plagiarized Mitchell and Micthell's heirs were pleased with the result of the trial. Still worth checking out according to reviews (I have not read it) and it takes place in World War 2 so its not a completely plagiarized work.

The Movie "Austrailia" is consdiered that country's equivalent of Gone With the Wind.

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor. Read it right after Gone with the Wind. By an American author but it is set in England.

The Outlander Series might be a good choice. It's about a woman who time travels to 18th century Scottland and has to learn to adapt to that society; I'd definitely call her an outsider. It's by an American author by the name of Diana Gabaldon..

The Rebel Wife Would be perfect. American author. Features a strong female lead in Post-War Antebellum South. Most of the tension of the book arises from how helpless the female lead feels in a male dominated world. It does not help that she is a Southern belle who married a Northern traitor. Author captures the angry, bitter, beaten South and the frustration of the female lead beautifully!

Forever Amber! She is very similar to Scarlett and the stories follows her affairs and marriages like Scarlett and she has one man she gets hung up on for years.

Becky Sharpe from Vanity Fair (by William Makepeace Thackeray) was Margaret Mitchell's muse for Scarlett O'Hara.

I apologize for tooting my own horn here but some of my readers have compared my book with it (trust me, I know there is no comparison to GWTW, she was the master). I think the similarity is that it is a young, strong female character in Civil War times, going after what she is determined to have. Would that be what you are looking for?

Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati - set in upper New York State post Revolutionary War - heroine is a teacher from England who comes out to teach, supposedly, but is really a pawn in her father's debt. A "next generation" to Last of the Mohicans with Hawkeye and his son Nathaniel as characters. Wonderful series.

I loved reading Scarlett

Try "A Woman Called Fancy", by Frank Yerby. Excellent!

Margaret Walker wrote an epic that has been called "the black GWTW." I've read it but I can't remember the title. It was good, not as good as GWTW, but nothing is. The characters are black; time period is right before Civil War and Reconstruction.

Another book you might want to read in is Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin. It won the Pulitzer Prize. Mrs. Peterkin wroter about African Americans in the SC Low Country. I have not read this book, but know from reading about Margaret Mitchell that she was heavily influenced by it.

The American book about a female outsider that immediately comes to mind is The Scarlet Letter. The Awakening is another one.

A book by an American author (Scott Simon) about a 17-year-old girl forced into a tough position when a war breaks out - but not in America - is Pretty Birds. The protagonist, Irena (a Muslim girl from Bosnia) reminds me of Scarlett in some ways (she goes from boy-crazy teen to serious combatant).

From Here to Eternity is another big-scale American epic like GWTW, even though it takes place almost entirely in 1941. It's told mostly from the perspective of a male character, Prew, but prominently features not one but two socially rebellious women - Karen Holmes and Lorena Schmidt.

A book that's like GWTW in that it's a Civil War-based family saga is Raintree County. The female protagonist is a Southern belle - like Scarlett, but crazier - but the main character is really her husband, an anti-slavery poet and schoolteacher from Indiana.

Anyone that enjoyed should read "Scarlett". This author ties up most of the ending of Scarlett's relationships.

The Buccanears By Edith Wharton

North and South by John Jakes (had a TV series made also starring Patrick Swayze). I found The sister of one of the main characters reminded me a lot of Scarlet O'Hara.

Band of Angels, Robert Penn Warren. I would add to this the Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel, who was not born in America, but wrote this story when he and his wife, the widow of Mahler, emigrated here.

I was also going to say Forever Amber!

well, I always thought that amber from Forever Amber was very much like scarlett, and it was written by an american.