Cheryl A. Head, Sadeqa Johnson, Etaf Rum: Fiction
FictionWhat does it mean to be a woman and a mother? How do our unsolved pasts affect our present? What is the meaning of a fulfilling life? Bestselling novelists Cheryl A. Head (Time’s Undoing: A Novel), Sadeqa Johnson (A Reese Book Club Pick), and Etaf Rum (New York Times bestselling author of A Woman is No Man) explore these questions in new novels
Steve Stern: Fiction
FictionA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022. "A frothy picaresque that ... 'vibrates to the sweet celestial confusion' of Soutine's painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious."-- The New York Times Book Review. A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim Soutine.
Tim Johnston, Lauren Nossett: Mystery, Thriller
FictionCampus thrills and unsolved disappearances are the heart of these two atmospheric crime novels.
RS Deeren, Brooks Lamb: Fiction, Non-Fiction
FictionThrough sharing lessons from determined Tennessee farmers and stories from rural Michigan, writers explore how where we come from shapes who we are.
Stephen Buoro, Jeffrey Dale Lofton, A.D. Nauman: Fiction
FictionComing of age is never easy. Three novels explore the stories of a young man in Africa, a young gay boy in Georgia, and a girl whose discovery of family secrets forces her to grow up too early.
Lindsay Lynch, Ann Patchett: Fiction
FictionAcclaimed author Ann Patchett and debut novelist Lindsay Lynch discuss their new works.
Christine Coulson, Hilary Leichter: Fiction
FictionThese two innovative and daring novels experiment with narrative structure, leaving us with heartbreaking stories, questions about our place in the universe, and beautiful prose.
Kelsey Norris, Janelle M. Williams: Fiction
FictionMagical realism has become a powerful genre in interpreting the Black experience in America. These two new books are the top of the form, displaying literary prowess and opening up the past for readers in a new way.
Bryan Giemza, Dennis McCarthy: Fiction, Non-Fiction
FictionJoin the brother of the late Cormac McCarthy and scholar Bryan Giemza to discuss the acclaimed novelist's work and legacy and the bond between two brothers and writers.
David Levithan: Young Adult, Graphic Novel
FictionCelebrate all the ways love makes us who we are with the romance that Entertainment Weekly calls "wise, wildly unique"--from the bestselling co-author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist--about a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life.
Julia Franks, Cat Shook, Susan Beckham Zurenda: Fiction
FictionNo one can break your heart like your family can. In these three Southern novels, women face life events with humor, grief, and courage.
Tan Twan Eng, Jamila Minnicks, Julia Watts: Fiction
FictionFrom traveling with acclaimed writer Somerset Maugham in Asia to experiencing rural Appalachia when it was culturally and geographically isolated, these historical novels transport the reader to different times and places.
Ben Fountain, Stephen Kearse: Fiction
FictionPower corrupts absolutely. In these masterful novels set in Haiti and Atlanta, ordinary people confront powerful forces.
Kathleen Rooney: Fiction
FictionFrom the bestselling author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk comes a novel about Hollywood, the cost of stardom, and selfless second acts, inspired by an extraordinary true story.
Megan Miranda: Mystery
FictionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and "master of suspense, Megan Miranda" (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl), a thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident, only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy.
Patti Callahan Henry: Fiction
FictionWhen a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed.
KJ Dell'Antonia: Fiction
FictionWhat makes the relationships between mothers and daughters even more complicated? Hereditary magic. KJ Dell'Antonia, New York Times best-selling author of The Chicken Sisters (a Reese's book club pick) discusses her latest book, Playing the Witch Card, why fictional witches are having a moment and why literary magic has to cause problems rather than solve them—and suggests more witchy reads to add to your #tbr.
Mark Greaney: Thriller
FictionCourt Gentry is caught between the Russian mafia and the CIA in this latest electrifying thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Gray Man series.
Varadajaran, Umrigar
FictionOne Southern family has its secrets. An Indian family undergoes unexpected change. Through these two novels, we explore what makes families alike across the globe.
Lisa Dordal, Anya Liftig, Alison Mills Newman: Memoir, Fiction
FictionThese collections of essays and letters explore mother-daughter relationships, artistic creativity, and forging identity in the chasm between culture and classes.
Matthew Quick: Fiction
FictionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook--made into the Academy Award-winning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper--a poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a magical revival in their small town.
Sarah Rose Etter, Ben Purkert: Fiction
FictionWhat are we willing to sacrifice for our work? When jobs let us go, can we let go of our jobs? These two funny, surreal novels offer a brilliantly incisive look at the absurdities of modern life.
Tom Piazza: Fiction
FictionIt is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers' Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation.
Marjorie Hudson: Fiction
FictionAfter an unjust murder trial, spirits of the dead rise from a field in the rural South, revealing “a mesmerizing story of loss, injustice, and revenge” (Sue Monk Kidd). Shortlisted for the Crooks Corner Prize. Hudson will be in conversation with Jennie Fields.
Sharon Cameron: Young Adult
FictionA dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of World War II, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places.
George Singleton, David Wesley Williams: Fiction
FictionThe South is in the details. From the absurd to the comical, in short stories and a novel, these books show people doing the best they can with what they have.
Ronda Rich: Mystery
FictionStella Bankwell has suddenly found herself in a "heap of trouble," in the words of her mountain people. Possible federal indictments that lead to a murder leads to serious danger for Stella. It turns out to be the beginning of Stella Bankwell, former Atlanta socialite, becoming Stella Bankwell, amateur sleuth.
Lorrie Moore: Fiction
FictionFrom "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (The New York Times), a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things--seen and unseen.
Gordon Johnston, Glenn Taylor: Fiction
FictionThese story collections use the Ocmulgee River and the landscape of West Virginia to explore how place defines us over generations of staying. The characters live and die by the land that they know.
J.A. Jance: Mystery
FictionFrom J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.
Nyani Nkrumah: Fiction
FictionA story so poignant, gripping and lyrical, resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker's classics and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, Wade in the Water tells the layered story of a friendship that develops between Ella, a 12 year-old precocious and mistreated black girl who sees God in the clouds, and Katherine St. James, a mysterious, strikingly well-dressed white woman who arrives in rural Mississippi in the early 80s.
Rea Frey, Lauren Thoman: Fiction
FictionChange comes in the blink of an eye. What is the value of second chances? These two heart-stopping novels leave the reader speechless.
Ron York: Fiction
FictionThe characters from the Nathaniel trilogy and the cast from the Peeper trilogy come together in Ron York's latest novel, Charlie's Encore.
Carmen Amato, Meredith Lyons, Kelly Oliver: Mystery
FictionAuthors from Sisters In Crime Middle Tennessee will reveal the key ingredients of a mystery plot and call on the audience to help them create a compelling mystery series outline in real time.
Mimi Herman, Jolene McIlwain: Fiction
FictionIn dusty villages, Appalachian Mountains, and seaside communities, the region comes alive with voices and tales in three novels.