Fiction - Diverse Reads

A Heart-rending Story of Two Mothers-one White, One Black-struggling for Truth and Justice in the Civil Rights-era SouthIn 1958, when almost no w...

“A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida...

Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers the latest thrillingly scandal-filled novel in her Depression-era saga of a ...

At turns haunting and breathtaking, Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves explores legacies of love, family, and the ghostly imprint grief leaves behind as...

Mauvaise Partance Bonne Arrivée"A bad beginning brings a good end," that's what Mawmaw Guidry used to say. They're the words Priscilla, Catherine,...

Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettab...

July 1854, Colleton District, South CarolinaA half-dozen years before Abe Lincoln's inauguration, comes another collision between European immigran...

July 1854, Colleton District, South CarolinaA half-dozen years before Abe Lincoln's inauguration, comes another collision between European immigran...

The Mississippi River. HAZMAT. Boxing. Suicide by cop. New Orleans Saints football. Chemical explosions. The Angola prison rodeo. Chlorine gas ghos...

A stunning, contemporary Black southern gothic novel about what it means to be a poor woman in the God fearing south in the age of OnlyFans, by a b...

Flynn Dalton just wants to marry her girlfriend, Genesis, go back to her construction job, and get on with her life. But first she has to defeat a ...

A “soul-stirring debut,” Boys of Alabama tells the “bewitching” (Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine) tale of sixteen-year-old Max’s first year ...

Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer j...

From national bestselling author Rochelle Alers comes the unforgettable story of three strangers whose lives are forever changed on a sultry island...

From Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner The Color Purple, comes Meridian, "a classic novel of both feminis...

"Nothing short of a wonder-book."--New York Times Book Review The story collection that hailed the arrival of an essential voice in southern litera...

An enchanting Black Southern gothic debut, perfect for readers of Mexican Gothic... "Fresh, haunting...In her roller-coaster ride of a gothic debut...

Home is not a place--it's a feeling. Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony ends in her being left at the altar...