Books set primarily in Arkansas, Louisiana or Oklahoma

Season of the Swamp

A Novel

by Yuri Herrera

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.

King of the Armadillos

by Wendy Chin-Tanner

Hardcover: Jul 2023 | Paperback: Sep 2024

A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life

Let Us Descend

A Novel

by Jesmyn Ward

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Sep 2024

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years ...

The Forgotten Girls

A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

by Monica Potts

Hardcover: May 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2024

Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?

Stealing

A Novel

by Margaret Verble

Hardcover: Feb 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2024

A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret ...

Glory Be

A Glory Broussard Mystery

by Danielle Arceneaux

Hardcover: Oct 2023

The first in a vivid and charming crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously uncensored amateur sleuth Glory Broussard. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series.

Nobody's Magic

by Destiny O. Birdsong

Hardcover: Feb 2022 | Paperback: Jan 2023

In this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana home. At the bustling crossroads of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of ...

The Ground Breaking

An American City and Its Search for Justice

by Scott Ellsworth

Hardcover: May 2021 | Paperback: May 2022

More than one-thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors' offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air.

Things We Lost to the Water

by Eric Nguyen

Hardcover: May 2021 | Paperback: Apr 2022

A stunning debut novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped.

The Vanishing Half

A Novel

by Brit Bennett

Hardcover: Jun 2020 | Paperback: Feb 2022

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.

The Removed

by Brandon Hobson

Hardcover: Feb 2021 | Paperback: Oct 2021

Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago - from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson.

The Big Door Prize

by M.O. Walsh

Hardcover: Sep 2020 | Paperback: Aug 2021

The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who ...