Books

April brings a shower of new reads, including big-league cookbooks, powerful memoirs, and a charming tribute to one funny-man’s best friend

Welcome spring with wanderlust-worthy travel books, a haul of great cookbooks, and powerful photography collections

A quintessential collection of fishing essays still hooks the heart

Mid-winter brings powerful memoirs, new novels, a lush photography book, and a beautiful reminder that spring will come again

Start 2019 with notable debut novels, stories about tough women, meditations on nature, and a touching memoir about a Southern-fried life

What G&G editors and contributors loved reading this year

The lauded poet’s new collection entwines the South’s history with her own

This winter, five visual books share lesser-known stories and rare images—a family art feud, more than one hundred locked lips, a feast of festive glassware, stunning early maps, and a truly remarkable Southern jewelry collection

The new photo book, Nashville: Scenes from the New American South, shares Music City moments big and small

The fall haul of books includes a Mississippi courtroom thriller from John Grisham, a photography collection that brings Nashville into focus, two meaty cookbooks, and one quite gritty read

Seven reads for dark and stormy nights

Four new releases shake up the region’s culinary traditions

Novelist Therese Anne Fowler, who brought Zelda Fitzgerald to life in her 2013 best-seller, Z, now turns her attention to another fascinating Southern woman: Alva Vanderbilt

A new book collects stories of the items that could never be left behind

Fall brings extra servings of cookbooks, historic novels, stirring biographies, and a secret garden book you’ll want to spend an afternoon paging through

New titles out this month include a pile of cookbooks, a surprising garden read, luscious design tomes, and one whiskey book that just might stir up some folks

A new book reveals a forgotten chapter of Southern history: Alabama’s “Fly Girl,” Ruth Elder

New books out this month, including Appalachian noir, a definitive sports biography, a coastal mystery, and a cookbook that’s quite cheesy

A vanishing Virginia island foretells a changing coastline

With the Open Canon Book Club, the North Carolina author Wiley Cash seeks to bring underrepresented authors to the fore