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Books set primarily in Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia

Mis. Ala. Ga.

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Great Big Beautiful Life

by Emily Henry

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.

This Is Your Mother

A Memoir

by Erika J. Simpson

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

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.

Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi

Hardcover: Nov 2025 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…

Sky Full of Elephants

A Novel

by Cebo Campbell

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?

The Barn

The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

by Wright Thompson

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long.

Dominion

A Novel

by Addie E. Citchens

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In this taut Southern family drama, the sins of a favorite son rock a small Mississippi town.

These Heathens

A Novel

by Mia McKenzie

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In this vibrant, gratifying novel, a pious, small-town teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and finds herself smack in the middle of the civil rights movement and the secret lives of queer Black people.

Blackwater I: The Flood

by Michael McDowell

Paperback: Sep 2024

Critics' Consensus:

As the dark and menacing waters of the local river submerge Perdido, a small town in the south of Alabama, the Caskeys - a family of rich landowners - must confront the tide of damage caused by the flood.

The Unsettled

A Novel

by Ayana Mathis

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Jun 2024

Critics' Consensus:

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...

We Deserve Monuments

by Jas Hammonds

Hardcover: Nov 2022 | Paperback: Feb 2024

Critics' Consensus:

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.

Moonrise Over New Jessup

by Jamila Minnicks

Hardcover: Jan 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2023

Critics' Consensus:

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.

The Kingdoms of Savannah

A Novel

by George Dawes Green

Hardcover: Jul 2022 | Paperback: Oct 2023

Critics' Consensus:

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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