A Turn in the South is a travelogue of the American South written by Nobel Prize-winning writer V. S. Naipaul. The book was first published in 1989 and is based upon the author's travels in the southern states of the United States. It compares states such as South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi to their geographical neighbors, the nations of the Caribbean. He discusses topics such as Martin Luther King Jr., the economy, technology, industrialization, tourism, religion, rednecks and racism.

In the tradition of political and cultural revelation, V. S. Naipaul's first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South - from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill.