Books

Arts & Culture
November Reading List
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

Arts & Culture
Must-Have New Southern Cookbooks
Four new releases shake up the region’s culinary traditions

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

Arts & Culture
August Reading List
New books out this month, including Appalachian noir, a definitive sports biography, a coastal mystery, and a cookbook that’s quite cheesy

Books
Time and Tide on Chesapeake’s Tangier Island
A vanishing Virginia island foretells a changing coastline

Books
The Best Books of 2018—So Far
We’re halfway through the year, but still just getting through our pile of great Southern reads. Make time for some—if not all two dozen—of these novels, cookbooks, and coffee table tomes before the second half of the year brings even more goodies for book lovers

Books
America the Bountiful
A historian scopes out the country’s bond with hunting

Drinks
Fuss-Free Cocktails
A new book offers cocktail recipes that start with grocery-store ingredients. Just add bourbon, gin, vodka…

Arts & Culture
A March Reading List
Springtime brings a crop of fresh cookbooks and new novels, plus beautiful coffee table tomes

The Manual of Southern Know-How
Expand Your Southern Canon
It’s time to crack the spines of the new literary classics

Books
Six Must-Reads for January
Dozens of books cross Garden & Gun editors’ desks each week. Here are a handful of out-in-January titles that we can’t wait to take home and read

Arts & Culture
Wild Horses of Cumberland Island
With stunning photography, a new book gives an up-close look at some of Georgia’s most majestic residents

Arts & Culture
Southern Characters at Home
A new book, The Authentics, chronicles the fascinating lives of twenty-seven tastemakers, including some of our favorite Southerners

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How New Orleans Inspired Walt Disney
This book documents the Crescent City’s surprising role in shaping the entertainment empire

Books
The Bon Vivant of Bunny Mellon
The meticulously crafted world of an American style legend

Arts & Culture
Ernest and Me
As a student, author Wiley Cash discovered the work of the incomparable Louisiana writer Ernest J. Gaines. It was the start of a literary bond that has lasted two decades—and an education in the power of the place you call home

Arts & Culture
The Architecture of SCAD Comes to Life in a New Book
Go inside the Georgia art and design university’s forty most famous structures around the world

Arts & Culture
Our Favorite Dog Books
There’s nothing quite like a good dog story

Arts & Culture
Flannery O’Connor: Under New Management
The beloved author’s Georgia home starts a new chapter

Books
Haunting Melody
Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel expands the Southern canon