Books

Plott Hound Books is the place to find thoughtfully curated reads—and advice on where to eat while you turn the pages

The North Carolina author—and insatiable reader—on the novels, memoirs, poetry, and stories he couldn’t put down

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

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

For a passionate birder, duck hunting triggers an unexpected lesson

The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald is an extraordinary look into the art and vision of the famous Southern Belle

A chat with Southern author and sports historian Andrew Maraniss about his latest book, Inaugural Ballers

The mega-best-selling author dishes on his favorite cookbooks, the Mississippi haunt that started it all, and why he won’t describe his new book in one sentence

“I wish there was a way to go back and soothe the younger me,” says Natalie Chanin, whose gorgeous new book celebrates two decades of soulful Southern style

A fascinating new book by Annie Proulx reveals the mystery and majesty of fens, bogs, and swamps

The celebrated author delivers back-to-back knockouts

Meet your favorite authors, stock up on gifts, and dive deeper into the wonderful world of Southern literature

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

“The biggest thing that people get wrong about the South is that they think all Southern accents are the same”

A novelist interviews Dopesick writer Beth Macy and the author Silas House, who tells him, “I never trust a writer who doesn’t doubt themselves”

The novelist’s Great Smoky Mountains immersion laid the groundwork for his epic Pulitzer-winning tree novel. It also sparked a love affair between man and place that is upending Powers’s life and work

In her lovely new book, the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun welcomes readers into both her Southern and Italian estates

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

Back on tour, a Nashville author discovers that bookshops around the South are writing intriguing new chapters

In her latest picture book, Alice Faye Duncan teaches children the story of Opal Lee’s decades-long campaign to make Juneteenth a national holiday