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The story is based upon a real account of a Southern woman who helped a Union soldier during the Civil

A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne facing missteps and disappointment, through her unlikely journey to stand-up, to the embracing of her Southern Her voice is a striking, uniquely nasal Southern drawl, and her Netflix special "I'm Every Woman" features

listening to Among the Bros , Max Marshall's nonfiction investigative account of the intersections between Southern

For a very different take, you might check out The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, in

Main protagonist Frankie signs up to leave her idyllic, privileged Southern California life--and the

Frankie leaves her idyllic, privileged Southern California life--and the control of her conservative

West. 02 Homecoming by Kate Morton In Kate Morton's newest novel, Homecoming, it's Christmas Eve in southern

shares her experiences and surprises while teaching a course on the religions of the world at a small Southern

Demon Copperhead is about a young boy born in a rural area of southern Virginia to a teenaged single characters, both likable and not; a richly built, unforgiving, starkly beautiful setting of small-town southern

The Books I'm Reading Now At the moment I'm reading a recently published Southern (North Carolina-set

survivor of the World War II Warsaw Ghetto, Jaryk Smith arrives in New York City and falls in love with a Southern

I love reading novels with Southern, Appalachian, and specifically North Carolina settings. 01 When These Mountains Burn by David Joy Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction

He explores his Jewish faith, forms a community of friends, ponders life, then falls in love with a Southern

while "Mary" digs more deeply into the circumstances surrounding the modern-day disappearances of the Southern

I worried during the first chapter that Gertrude was going to feel like a caricature of a backwoods Southern

Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and

SoHo and southern Manhattan are underwater, eating synthetic meat is the norm, and geneticists who have

Avenue , please click here . 05 When These Mountains Burn by David Joy Joy offers an often dark work of Southern

For [Colonel] Mackenzie on the southern plains, Comanches were the obvious target: No tribe in the history

while "Mary" digs more deeply into the circumstances surrounding the modern-day disappearances of the Southern

Main protagonist Frankie signs up to leave her idyllic, privileged Southern California life--and the

The route carries sailors from the edges of Antarctica, through the dangers of the rough Southern Ocean

In 142 Ostriches, April Davila lays out a setting in the Southern California desert on an ostrich ranch

Main protagonist Frankie signs up to leave her idyllic, privileged Southern California life--and the

The story is based upon a real account of a Southern woman who helped a Union soldier during the Civil

Utopia Avenue, click here. 05 When These Mountains Burn by David Joy Joy offers an often dark work of Southern

I worried during the first chapter that Gertrude was going to feel like a caricature of a backwoods Southern

The most fascinating parts for me were the late-in-life reflections from those who had been involved in the IRA's brutal and unrelenting violence. Patrick Radden Keefe, a journalist with an Irish name but without a dog in the fight, fantastically shapes the endless trails and tales from the Irish Troubles into a narrative, and he lays out the web of motivations and passionate beliefs behind the conflicts so that an outsider can begin to comprehend what occurred and why. Toward the end of the book, says, in an accurate reflection of his book: “...I saw an opportunity to tell a story about how people become radicalized in their uncompromising devotion to a cause, and about how individuals—and a whole society—make sense of political violence once they have passed through the crucible and finally have time to reflect.” The most fascinating parts of this book for me were the late-in-life reflections and in some cases regrets from those who had been involved in brutal and unrelenting violence. Many began as steadfast and unrelenting IRA paramilitary members but ended up emotionally and sometimes physically broken after time in prison, hunger strikes, and feeling haunted by the deaths they were responsible for. It was incredible to read how former IRA top man Gerry Adams managed to create his own fact-defying narrative, practically erasing his history of violence and masterminding, essentially by sheer will. The disturbing facts were ignored (by everyone besides the disgruntled but powerless former IRA members who had once surrounded him and who had done his often murderous bidding) and his violent associations of the past shed so successfully that he could become a respected and effective politician. What did you think? For me, this was nonfiction that was so compelling it read like fiction. It was the human interest story behind the politics of the many events I remember from the news when I was young, and I thought it was fascinating. #politics, #nonfiction, #fourstarbookreview

Grady Hendrix is also the author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, which I really

Utopia Avenue, click here. 05 When These Mountains Burn by David Joy Joy offers an often dark work of Southern

while "Mary" digs more deeply into the circumstances surrounding the modern-day disappearances of the Southern

SoHo and southern Manhattan are underwater, eating synthetic meat is the norm, and geneticists who have

But when a wildfire rages near where they're canoeing the Maskwa River in northern Canada, everything I worried during the first chapter that Gertrude was going to feel like a caricature of a backwoods Southern

SoHo and southern Manhattan are underwater, eating synthetic meat is the norm, and geneticists who have

while "Mary" digs more deeply into the circumstances surrounding the modern-day disappearances of the Southern

The story is based upon a real account of a Southern woman who helped a Union soldier during the Civil

Bug Hollow tracks the Samuelson family from an idyllic mid-1970s Northern California summer through a The family located him in Bug Hollow, a Northern California community where he was living his best life The early portion of the novel wonderfully immerses the reader in the Northern California of the 1970s

within a story that's been on my to-read list for years; I'm reading a decades-spanning story of a Northern The family located him in Bug Hollow, a Northern California community where he was living his best life

fantasy novel Alchemised , which started as dark Harry Potter fan fiction; I'm reading Benjamin Wood's northern-England-set lives a quiet life as a shanker scraping the shore for shrimp with a horse and cart in a small seaside northern

This slim, debut novel about a small-town community in northern Maine introduces various faulted, interconnected , Shannon Bowring dives into the small town's complex, faulted characters as they make their way in northern

reality TV show by Laurie Devore; I'm listening to You Are Here , a charming story of hiking through northern Sophie's friends, along with her teenage son, assemble to "walk" (hike) through the hills and moors of northern

lives a quiet life as a shanker scraping the shore for shrimp with a horse and cart in a small seaside northern

In his self-banishment in remote Svalbard, his only company is the haunting, beautiful Northern Lights

In 1741, Georg Wilhelm Steller journeys with Captain Bering’s Great Northern Expedition, searching for

the job (against the advice of his wife) of evicting the sole inhabitant of a remote island off the northern

Sophie's friends, along with her teenage son, assemble to "walk" (hike) through the hills and moors of northern

, Shannon Bowring dives into the small town's complex, faulted characters as they make their way in northern

job (against the advice of his wife) of evicting Ivar, the sole inhabitant of a remote island off the northern

The story takes place in northern Canada, but the tragedy is uncomfortably and universally familiar and

McLain had me hooked on the vivid Northern California setting, imperfect Anna's rich and rocky history When she experiences a personal tragedy, she flees to the Northern California of her childhood--a place