Fiction Reviews   

Savannah Blues, Mary Kay Andrews, 2002

The Christmas Train, David Baldacci, 2002

The War in Sallie's Station, Mignon F. Ballard, 2001

 

A Broken Thing, Marlin Barton, 2003

The Dry Well, stories by Marlin Barton, 2001

 

The Cry of an Occasion, edited by Richard Bausch, 2001

River Season, Jim Black, 2003

Alternative Atlanta, Marshall Boswell, 2005

Trouble With Girls, Marshall Boswell, 2003

Some Personal Papers, JoAllen Bradham, 1998

Restoration, John Ed Bradley, 2003

The Poet of Tolstoy Park, Sonny Brewer, 2005

The Rabbit Factory, Larry Brown, 2003

Tongues of Flames, Mary Ward Brown, Reprint Edition, 2001

A Salty Piece of Land, Jimmy Buffett, 2004

TRUELOVE and Homegrown Tomatoes, Julie Cannon, 2001

'Mater Biscuit, Julie Cannon, 2004

Off Magazine Street, Ronald Everett Capps, 2004

We Can Still Be Friends: A Novel, Kelly Cherry, 2003

Remind Me Again Why I Married You, Rita Ciresi, 2003

Forgiving Sam, B. Powell Clark, 2002

Plain Heathen Mischief, Martin Clark, 2004

The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, Martin Clark, 2000

Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do, Pearl Cleage, 2003

Wings of Morning, William Cobb, 2001

Key to a Cottage, Marian Coe, 2003

Cage's Bend, Carter Coleman, 2005

Bad Ground, W. Dale Cramer, 2004

Sutter's Cross, W. Dale Cramer, 2002

 

The Summer Guest, Justin Cronin, 2004

Mary and O'Neil, Justin Cronin, 2002

Bloodlines of Tyranny, Dan Dane, 2001

Wonder When You'll Miss Me, Amanda Davis, 2003

Twin City, Jerry Lee Davis, 2000

The Floodmakers, Mylene Dressler, 2004

Out of the Night That Covers Me, Pat Cunningham Devoto, 2001

Lord Baltimore, Stephen Doster, 2002

Plant Life, Pamela Duncan, 2003

Lunch at the Piccadilly, Clyde Edgerton, 2003

Wild Hands Toward the Sky: A Novel, Ray Elliott, 2002

Coiled in the Heart, Scott Elliott, 2004

Eating the Cheshire Cat, Helen Ellis, 2001

Standing in the Rainbow, Fannie Flagg, 2002

Love and a Bad Hair Day, Annie Flannigan, 2003

The Cruelest Months, Dorothy K. Fletcher, 2002

The Problem With Murmur Lee, Connie May Fowler, 2005

Wild Blue Yonder, William Price Fox, 2002

Isle of Palms: A Lowcountry Tale, Dorothea Benton Frank, 2003

The Garden Angel, Mindy Friddle, 2004

The Big Bust at Tyrone's Rooming House: A Novel of Atlanta, James Gallant, 2003

The Barbarian Parade; or, Pursuit of the Un-American Dream, Kirby Gann, 2003

The Clearing, Tim Gautreaux, 2003

Provinces of Night, William Gay, 2001

Early Leaving, Judy Goldman, 2004

Sammy's Hill, Kristin Gore, 2004

Spikes: A Novel, Michael Griffith, 2001

Wings of Grace, Vanessa Davis Griggs, 2005

Promises Beyond Jordan, Vanessa D. Griggs, 2001

Skipping Christmas, John Grisham, 2001

Where the River Bends, Richard Haddaway, 2002

The Time of Jacob's Trouble, Robert L. Hall, 2002

Yonder Stands Your Orphan, Barry Hannah, 2001

A House All Stilled, A.G. Harmon, 2002

Willem's Field, Melinda Haynes, 2003

Ella in Bloom, Shelby Hearon, 2000

Every Man Must Build A Home, L. A. Heberlein, 2002

Friendship Cake, Lynne Hinton, 2000

B-Four, Sam Hodges, 2000

In a Temple of Trees, Suzanne Hudson, 2003

Gods In Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson, 2005

The Untelling, Tayari Jones, 2005

 

Leaving Atlanta, Tayari Jones, 2002

Bear Me Safely Over, Sheri Joseph, 2002

Dear Mouse..., Schuyler Kaufman, 2001

The Valley of Light, Terry Kay, 2003

Taking Lottie Home, Terry Kay, 2000

 

Something Rising (Light and Swift), Haven Kimmel, 2004

The Solace of Leaving Early, Haven Kimmel, 2002

The Sunday Wife, Cassandra King, 2002

Life With Strings Attached, Minnie Lamberth, 2005

Harvest, Catherine Landis, 2004

Some Days There's Pie, Catherine Landis, 2003

A Song I Knew By Heart, Bret Lott, 2004

Right As Rain, Bev Marshall, 2004

The Dead Don't Dance, Charles Martin, 2004

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd, 2002

The Midwife's Tale, Gretchen Moran Laskas, 2003

The Last Noel, Michael Malone, 2002

True Hope, Frank Manley, 2002

WHITEGIRL, Kate Manning, 2002

Hollow Ground, Stephen Marion, 2002

The Bridge, Doug Marlette, 2001

Crazy Love, David Martin, 2002

Terminal Bend, Patricia Mayer, 2000

Speaks the Nightbird, Robert McCammon, 2002

The Bark of the Dogwood: A Tour of Southern Homes and Gardens, Jackson Tippett McCrae, 2002

Ghost Riders, Sharyn McCrumb, 2003

The Songcatcher, Sharyn McCrumb, 2001

Sugar, Bernice L. McFadden, 2001

Water from the Well, Myra McLarey, 2000

TALK: A Novel in Dialogue, Corey Mesler, 2002

Coyote Moon, John A. Miller, 2003

A Broken Reed, Ron Miller, 2002

Live Like You Were Dying, Michael Morris, 2004

Slow Way Home, Michael Morris, 2003

A Place Called Wiregrass, Michael Morris, 2002

Taps, Willie Morris, 2001

The Last of the Honky-tonk Angels, Marsha Moyer, 2003

The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch, Marsha Moyer, 2002

The Swan House, Elizabeth Musser, 2001

Goodbye to the Buttermilk Sky, Julie Oliver, 2000

Music of Falling Water, Julie Oliver, 2001

Chicken Bone Man, Anna Olswanger, 2004

 

Home Across the Road, Nancy Peacock, 2001

Prodigals, Mark Powell, 2002

The Legend of Bagger Vance, Steven Pressfield, 1995

It May Not Leave a Scar, Milam McGraw Propst, 2001

Saints at the River, Ron Rash, 2004

One Foot in Eden, Ron Rash, 2003

New Stories from The South: The Year's Best, 2000, edited by Shannon Ravenel, 2000

Miss Woman, Ann V. Richards, 2001

Dream of the Blue Room, Michelle Richmond, 2003

A Posturing of Fools, Brewster Milton Robertson, 2004

The Lord Had Something Better in Mind, Barbara J. Robinson, 2004

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, 2004

Course of the Waterman, Nancy Taylor Robson, 2004

The Camellia City, Phillip Routh, 2000

An Invincible Summer, Ivan Scott, 2002

Backside of Nowhere, Sharon Sebastian, 2000

Welcome to the Fallen Paradise, Dayne Sherman, 2004

The Shining Shining Path, Carroll Dale Short, 2002

The Patron Saint of Red Chevys, Kay Sloan, 2004

Sweet Hush, Deborah Smith, 2003

The Stone Flower Garden, Deborah Smith, 2002

 

The Last Girls, Lee Smith, 2002

The Guardian, Nicholas Sparks, 2003

World of Pies, Karen Stolz, 2000

To Yield A Dream, Oxford Stroud, 2002

Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church, Clayton Sullivan, 2004

The School of Beauty and Charm, Melanie Sumner, 2001

The Long-Range Plan, Wade Tabor, 2004

The Little Friend, Donna Tartt, 2002

Liberating Paris, Linda Bloodworth Thomason, 2004

Swan Place, Augusta Trobaugh, 2002

The Rock Orchard: A Novel, Paula Wall, 2005

The Watermelon King, Daniel Wallace. 2003

Sweet Vidalia, Rebecca Pace Watkins, 2004

The Heaven of Mercury, Brad Watson, 2002

The Opening, Susannah Wilds, 2000

Blackberries, Blackberries, Crystal Wilkinson, 2000

The Secret Life of Hurricanes, Theresa Williams, 2002

Broken As Things Are, Martha Witt, 2004

Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood, 2003

The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell, 2002

Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford, J. Belinda Yandell, 2002