Books set primarily in the Southern regions of the USA
South, USA
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Holy City
by Henry Wise
Hardcover: Jun 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an unpredictable private detective after he finds himself on the outs from his sheriff's department over his unwillingness to look the other way when an...
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This Is Your Mother: A Memoir
by Erika J. Simpson
Hardcover: May 2025
From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.
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Happy Land
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Hardcover: Apr 2025
A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family's ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.
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The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
by Mike Tidwell
Hardcover: Mar 2025
A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees – all against the national backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and, ...
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Real Americans: A Novel
by Rachel Khong
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our ...
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Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel
by Jennine Capó Crucet
Hardcover: Mar 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic.
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Stop Me If You've Heard This One: A Novel
by Kristen Arnett
Hardcover: Mar 2025
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love.
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Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays
by Edgar Gomez
Hardcover: Feb 2025
A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual.
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Three Days in June: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
Hardcover: Feb 2025
A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.
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Neighbors and Other Stories
by Diane Oliver
Hardcover: Feb 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an ...
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The Bullet Swallower: A Novel
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, ...
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
by Rebecca Renner
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters
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