The Family Plot

Cherie Priest

Morsel

Carter Keane

And the Ass Saw the Angel

Nick Cave

The Orchard Keeper

Cormac McCarthy

If the Dead Belong Here

Carson Faust

Soil

Jamie Kornegay

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Mama Day

Gloria Naylor

Rootwork (Conjure #1)

Tracy Cross

The Robber Bridegroom

Eudora Welty

On Sundays, She Picked Flowers

Yah-Yah Scholfield

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Flannery O'Connor

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner