Absolutely and Forever

Rose Tremain

Southernmost

Silas House

Ring Shout

P. Djèlí Clark

Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy

God Shot

Chelsea Bieker

House of Cotton

Monica Brashears

Betty

Tiffany McDaniel

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Winter's Bone

Daniel Woodrell

The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li

The Gospel Singer

Harry Crews

The Night of the Flood

Zoë Somerville

Flux

Orion Carloto

The Violent Bear It Away

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

The Vaster Wilds

Lauren Groff

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

Exquisite Corpse

Poppy Z. Brite

Little Eve

Catriona Ward

The Past Is Never

Tiffany Quay Tyson

Doll Crimes

Karen Runge

When the Reckoning Comes

LaTanya McQueen

The Bog Wife

Kay Chronister

Rootwork

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