Books set primarily in Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia
Mis. Ala. Ga.
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Sky Full of Elephants: A Novel
by Cebo Campbell
Hardcover: Sep 2024
In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?
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The Unsettled: A Novel
by Ayana Mathis
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her...
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We Deserve Monuments
by Jas Hammonds
Hardcover: Nov 2022
Paperback: Feb 2024
Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a YA debut from Jas Hammonds that explores how racial violence can ripple down through generations.
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Nov 2023
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
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The Kingdoms of Savannah: A Novel
by George Dawes Green
Hardcover: Jul 2022
Paperback: Oct 2023
Savannah may appear to be "some town out of a fable," with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city's history. But look deeper and you'll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It's ...
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Sep 2023
Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain ...
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Salvage This World: A Novel
by Michael Farris Smith
Hardcover: Apr 2023
In this "tense, brooding" novel, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be a savior in the apocalypse. (Kirkus Reviews, starred ...
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Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Hardcover: Apr 2022
Paperback: Apr 2023
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fannone Jeffers
Hardcover: Aug 2021
Paperback: May 2022
The 2020 National Book Award–nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic - an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer - that chronicles the ...
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The Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: May 2022
A profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever.
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The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
by Richard Grant
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Aug 2021
Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other.
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Some Go Home
by Odie Lindsey
Hardcover: Jul 2020
Paperback: Jul 2021
A searing debut novel that follows three generations - fractured by murder, seeking redemption - in fictional Pitchlynn, Mississippi.
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