The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has announced its Winter Okra Picks, "a bumper crop of 18 delicious reads" of new books chosen by Southern indie booksellers each season as the upcoming Southern titles they are most looking forward to handselling:
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Algonquin Books)
Daily Writing Resilience by Bryan Robinson (Llewellyn Publications)
Daisy Cakes Bakes by Kim Nelson (Clarkson Potter)
Dreaming in Chocolate by Susan Bishop Crispell (St. Martin's Griffin)
Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro (Grove)
Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown (St. Martin's)
I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
Marabel and the Book of Fate by Tracy Barrett (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Promise by Minrose Gwin (Morrow)
Robicheaux by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)
Steal Away Home by Billy Coffey (Thomas Nelson)
The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce (Riverhead Books)
The Hush by John Hart (St. Martin's Press)
The Past Is Never by Tiffany Quay Tyson (Skyhorse)
The Problim Children by Natalie Lloyd (Katherine Tegen Books)
The Road to Bittersweet by Donna Everhart (Kensington)
Under a Cloudless Sky by Chris Fabry (Tyndale House)
Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith (Hub City Press)