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This One and Magic Life: A Novel of a Southern Family

10 best books like This One and Magic Life: A Novel of a Southern Family (Anne Carroll George): Murder on a Bad Hair Day, Redemption Song, The Rock Orchard, The Lost Saints of Tennessee, The Tender Mercy of Roses, Bound South, God of Beer, Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters, Sunlight on the Lawn, Moon Women

Murder on a Bad Hair Day
AuthorAnne George
ISBN0380780879
It’s hard to believe practical, petite ex-schoolteacher Patricia Anne and amiable, ample-bodied, and outrageous Mary Alice are sisters, yet sibling rivalry has survived decades of good-natured disagreement about everything from husbands to hair color.

No sooner do the Southern sisters...
Redemption Song
AuthorBertice Berry
Owner of a small African-American bookshop, Miss Cozy has an unique gift: Customers who walk through her door rarely leave without a book that speaks directly to their life. But when Josephine--"Fina"--and Ross arrive in search of an obscure, unpublished manuscript written by a slave woman, Miss...
The Rock Orchard
AuthorPaula Wall
ISBN0743496205
"It is common knowledge that Belle Women make hard men melt like butter in a pan," writes novelist Wall, adding, "They are equally adept at reversing the process." If you find such sentiments appealing, then spirit yourself away to Leaper's Fork, Tennessee, and immerse yourself in the very southern...
The Lost Saints of Tennessee
AuthorAmy Franklin-Willis
ISBN0802120059
With enormous heart and dazzling agility, Amy Franklin-Willis expertly mines the fault lines in one Southern working-class family. Driven by the soulful voices of forty-two-year-old Ezekiel Cooper and his mother, Lillian, The Lost Saints of Tennessee journeys from the 1940s to 1980s as it follows...
The Tender Mercy of Roses
AuthorAnna Michaels
ISBN1439180997
While the body of rodeo star Pony Jones lies motionless in the northern Alabama woods, her spirit is on a mission to find her killer. Invisible to the eye but not to the sixth sense, the only thing Pony can do is guide the living to the truth. Her grief-stricken father, Titus, wants nothing more than retribution...
Bound South
AuthorSusan Rebecca White
ISBN1416558675
From the award winning author of A Soft Place to Land and A Place at the Table comes a tale of three vibrant and unique Southern women—Louise, Caroline, and Missy—as their lives intersect in unexpected and extraordinary ways.

From the outside, Louise Parker seems like a proper Southern...
God of Beer
AuthorGarret Keizer
ISBN1611689155
In the remote mill town of Salmon Falls, Vermont, the dead of winter can feel like death itself. Jobs are scarce, kids are bored, and it sometimes seems there’s nothing better to do than drink. But when eighteen-year-old Kyle Nelson and a motley group of friends decide to challenge both the legal drinking...
Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters
AuthorEmily Herring Wilson
ISBN0807085596
A legendary editor at The New Yorker during its first thirty-four years, Katharine S. White was also a great garden enthusiast. In March 1958 she began publishing her popular column, "Onward and Upward in the Garden." Her first column elicited loads of fan mail, but one letter in particular caught her...
Sunlight on the Lawn
AuthorBeverley Nichols
ISBN0881924679
Beverly, Beverly, Beverly...you're impossibly snooty sometimes, you hate women, think babies are revolting and are a bit overly obsessed with your cats and yet...somehow you are so charming, so clever, and so very, very funny. Sunlight was the final book in his famous trilogy...a great capstone...
Moon Women
AuthorPamela Duncan
ISBN0385335210
In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who’s losing her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out of rehab, unmarried,...
Sufficient Grace
AuthorDarnell Arnoult
ISBN0743284488
Set against the backdrop of two neighboring Southern towns, Sufficient Grace is the powerful, affecting story of two families over the course of a year, from one Easter season to the next. One quiet spring day, Gracie Hollaman hears voices in her head that tell her to get in her car and leave her entire...
Summer in the South
AuthorCathy Holton
ISBN0345506014
Cathy Holton, author of the popular Beach Trip, returns with an intriguing and mysterious tale of dark deeds and family secrets in a small Southern town.

After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her...
Lightning Song
AuthorLewis Nordan
ISBN1565122208
Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect. It's true that his grandfather just died in the attic and that wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then, and it's true that one little sister curses him and the other one wets her pants. But up to the day Uncle Harris moves...
A Place Called Wiregrass
AuthorMichael Morris
ISBN0060727101
Erma Lee is on the run . . . Running from an abusive husband . . . running from a mother who doesn't care -- never cared. Running from a soul-numbing factory job that has held her down her entire life ...

Erma Lee and her granddaughter, Cher, flee to the town of Wiregrass, Alabama, to escape the past...
Where the Souls Go
AuthorAnn Hite
At the age of ten, Annie Todd finds not only is her mother quite mad but that Annie has inherited an unusual legacy. The ghost of a young girl visits Annie in her new home deep in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where Annie’s mother, Grace Jean, has hidden them away from the life they used to know....
Bed & Breakfast
AuthorLois Battle
ISBN0786209720
Ten years of family secrets, misunderstandings, and recriminations have kept the Tatternalls apart - until Josie, a military widow suddenly alerted to mortality when one of her best friends keels over during a bridge game, impulsively invites her three grown daughters home for the holidays at her...
The Understory
AuthorElizabeth Leiknes
ISBN1610880498
Story Easton knows the first line of every book, but never the last.

She never cries, but she fakes it beautifully.

And at night, she escapes from the failure of her own life by breaking into the homes of others, and feeling, for a short while, like a different, better person.

But...
Daniel Plainway: Or the Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League
AuthorVan Reid
ISBN0141001909
This is one of my favorite books of all time, and I always think of it around Christmas. It's part of a series of stories, set in coastal Maine in the 1800s, about a club of goofy guys called The Moosepath League. They are the background in this particular story, which is an exquisite story about ghosts, the...
Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society
AuthorAmy Hill Hearth
ISBN1451675232
A brilliant debut novel from a New York Times bestselling author about a transplanted wife from Boston who arrives in Florida in the 1960s, starts a literary salon, and shakes up the status quo.

In 1962, Jackie Hart moved to Naples, Florida, from Boston with her husband and children. Wanting...
Miracle on I-40
AuthorCurtiss Ann Matlock
ISBN0778322238
To reconcile with her folks back East and give her kids grandparents for Christmas, truck stop waitress Lacey Bryant arranged transportation with her steadiest customer. Little did she know she'd hitched a ride with Scrooge! Eighteen hundred miles confined with scowling Barry Cooper would feel...
Dairy Queen Days
AuthorRobert Inman
ISBN0316418374
77 pages in, I said "Bored. Unimpressed. Snooze."

A couple of hundred pages later, and my original opinion has not changed a bit.

It might just be me. I mean, it's Southern lit, and I'm not a Southern lit fan. The dust jacket says "Brimming with the mystery, sadness, an exquisite beauty...
A Southern Exposure
AuthorAlice Adams
ISBN0449911136
"A work that will be for many readers as memorable as the last decade's Superior Women, and her exquisite novel from the 1970s, Listening to Billie."
--San Francisco Chronicle
It is 1939, a brief, hopeful moment between the Depression and war. The Baird family--Harry, Cynthia, and their precocious...
Taking Lottie Home
AuthorTerry Kay
ISBN0060937017
When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway -- a girl-woman named Lottie Parker -- on the train that takes them from Augusta, Georgia, and away from their dreams of greatness.

Foster...
The Provincial Lady in America
AuthorE.M. Delafield
ISBN0897335392
I enjoyed this next episode of the doings of the Provincial Lady, though not quite as much as I did the first two volumes. I'm not sure whether this was because the freshness was wearing off the idea, or because her trip to America (she ventures up into Canada as well as to various cities in the US) took us away...
She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana
AuthorMichael Lee West
ISBN0060926201
The two main occupations in Limoges, Louisiana (population: 905), seem to be spreading juicy gossip and consoling the unfortunate with casseroles. And in this early spring of 1952, there is ample opportunity for both with sixteen-year-old and pregnant (by the Baptist minister) Olive Nepper, currently...
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