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Top cookbooks, novels, and memoirs that explored the story-filled region

Gorgeous cookbooks, charming poetry collections, meditations on nature, and more delightful 2024 reading picks from G&G editors and contributors

G&G contributors pick the food books they’re excited to devour this fall

G&G staff and contributors pick their favorite new novels, bold memoirs, and beach reads, plus a few books to put on preorder

The cookbooks, novels, and nonfiction books that G&G editors and contributors loved most this year

The year was delicious in the kitchen for Southerners

Whether you’re into thrillers, photo books, novels, or just anything you can cozy up with on an autumn evening, you’ll find something to savor among these new books

We’re feeling thankful for writers, photographers, and this year’s generous haul of new novels, reported stories, riveting tell-alls, and beautiful photography books

G&G editors and contributors share the biographies, nonfiction reads, thrillers, and unforgettable novels that have started 2021 off right for readers

G&G editors and contributors share what books to cozy up with this autumn

A few highlights from a Crescent City pilgrimage

A few thoughts on great Southern reads—and announcing our upcoming book club

Editors, contributors, and Southern booksellers share the new novels, fresh nonfiction, and even a couple of cookbooks at the top of their book stacks

A blanket of snow turns the Lowcountry to snow country

Garden pros share tips for giving your green spot a sense of Southern story

Seven bottles we keep in easy reach

Plus, destinations we’re dreaming of this year

Ten Southern dishes we can’t stop thinking about

After spending three days in the Crescent City, we’re still dreaming about a cozy bookshop, some standout blue-crab beignets, a wander through City Park, cocktails galore, and the perfect muffuletta 

New novels, nonfiction, cookbooks, forthcoming titles, even some classics—and where these Southerners plan to enjoy reading them

A smart bird feeder, a bounty of garden seeds, avian artwork, and more thoughtful finds to delight both birders and feathered friends

Editors’ picks for less beaten, more beautiful paths through downtown and beyond

Plus, top destinations we’re dreaming of this year

Odes to the late legendary author from James Lee Burke, S.A. Cosby, and more

The spots in the South—and around the world—where G&G editors can’t wait to visit this year

Jerry Saltz on faking it till you make it, going down Instagram rabbit holes, and why the creativity pouring from the South is so vital

Here’s where you’ll find G&G editors outside the office in the next twelve months

A few items G&G staffers wouldn’t mind finding under the tree

Editors, gardeners, and readers share the tiny kernels of history they’re planning to plant

Readers, editors, and chefs share their tips for perfecting the campfire treat. Wait for the bourbon secret

Come summer, all roads lead to the mountains

G&G and SEWE host another year of Cocktails and Conservation in Charleston

Nashville’s next-door neighbor looks to the future while preserving the past

Fearless chefs, expert anglers, gardening gurus, and other extraordinary matriarchs

G&G hosted another year of conversations during SEWE 2024

Etiquette, tips, and tricks—plus recipes for mulled wine, bourbon-spiked cider, roasted oysters, and the best s’mores ever

G&G editors share some of what went into producing the “Saving the South” issue

Three new collections propel Southern verse forward

A North Carolina stamp collector makes snail mail beautiful again—and shares why “this is no place for licking”

Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive revisits a midcentury murder in the Delta