Books set primarily in the Southern regions of the USA
South, USA
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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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Absolution: Southern Reach, book 4
by Jeff VanderMeer
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.
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The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don't—shape our realities.
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Season of the Swamp: A Novel
by Yuri Herrera
Hardcover: Oct 2024
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.
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Model Home: A Novel
by Rivers Solomon
Hardcover: Oct 2024
Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
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A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens: A Novel
by Raul Palma
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil's bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom.
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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
by Wright Thompson
Hardcover: Sep 2024
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.
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Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
by Paulette Jiles
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the ...
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The Reformatory: A Novel
by Tananarive Due
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
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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
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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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