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Books set primarily in Tennessee, Virginia, W. Virginia and Kentucky

Tenn. Va. W.Va. Ky.

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A Novel

by Kayla Rae Whitaker

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping novel of one Kentucky family's rise and fall throughout the 1980s—a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the perils of mixing family with business, from the acclaimed author of The Animators.

Ruby Falls

A Novel

by Gin Phillips

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A tense, claustrophobic historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression about the discovery of a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain, the unthinkable crime that happens in its caves, and a woman who'...

Someone Like Us

A Novel

by Dinaw Mengestu

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home.

This Here Is Love

A Novel

by Princess Joy L. Perry

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Three people - two enslaved, one indentured - live beside each other, fighting, and sometimes failing, to be more than their pasts say they should be.

Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire

by Don Martin

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Welcome to Foxfire.

Holy City

by Henry Wise

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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...

Demon Copperhead

A Novel

by Barbara Kingsolver

Hardcover: Oct 2022 | Paperback: Aug 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.

All the Sinners Bleed

A Novel

by S. A. Cosby

Hardcover: Jun 2023 | Paperback: Jul 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The new novel from New York Times bestselling and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author S. A. Cosby, "one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction." —Washington Post.

Happiness Falls

A Novel

by Angie Kim

Hardcover: Aug 2023 | Paperback: May 2024

Critics' Consensus:

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another in this thrilling page-turner, a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle ...

The House Is on Fire

by Rachel Beanland

Hardcover: Apr 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night—told from the perspectives of four people whose ...

Horse

A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

Hardcover: Jun 2022 | Paperback: Jan 2024

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Fiction Award

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and ...

Four for the Road

by K J. Reilly

Hardcover: Aug 2022 | Paperback: Aug 2023

Critics' Consensus:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets The End of the F***ing World in this dark young adult comedy about four unlikely friends dealing with the messy side of grief who embark on a road trip to Graceland.

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