The Book of Southern Tang, or sometimes called Ma's Book of Southern Tang (馬氏南唐書) to distinguish it from the later Lu's Book of Southern Tang, was a Chinese history book on the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state of Southern Tang. Containing 30 chapters, it was written by Ma Ling in the early 12th century. Ma Ling's grandfather Ma Yuankang (馬元康) had been a resident of Southern Tang's capital Jinling (金陵; modern Nanjing, Jiangsu).

《南唐書》，馬令撰，凡三十卷。

《南唐書》原有馬令、胡恢、陸游三家。馬令係宜興人，其祖馬元康世居金陵（今江蘇南京），諳熟南唐舊事。宋徽宗崇寧四年（1105年）馬令撰成《南唐書》。該書仿效《三國志·蜀書》之例，置先主書、嗣主書及後主書，共五卷。列傳有二十二卷。滅國傳兩卷。譜一卷，專記南唐三十五州。

馬令又仿歐陽修《新五代史》的春秋筆法，卷首文末序﹑論多以「嗚呼」發端。後人評價不高，胡震亨稱：「余始得馬令《南唐書》，以為政可作酒後談資耳。及得陸游新修《南唐書》讀之，乃知正史稗官迥自懸別，未可以偽史忽之。」有嘉靖二十年（1541年）姚咨抄本。清初四庫館臣收入《四庫全書》。

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