Mississippi Reads: August 13, 2017

Special to USA TODAY NETWORK - Mississippi
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1.            “Camino Island,” John Grisham, Doubleday

2.            “Mississippi Blood,” Greg Iles, William Morrow

3.            “The Sarah Book,” Scott McClanahan, Tyrant

4.            “The Fact of a Body,” Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Macmillan

5.            “The Mississippi Encyclopedia,” Ted Ownby, et al., University Press of Mississippi

6.            “Some Bore Gifts,” A.G. Harmon, Word Galaxy 

7.            “Mrs. Fletcher,” Tom Perrotta, Scribner                              

8.            “The Grip of It,”                Jac Jemc, Macmillan

9.            “The Fallen,” Ace Atkins, Putnam

10.          “Dispatches from Pluto,” Richard Grant, Simon & Schuster

 

Children and Young Adults
 

1.            “The Night Before Kindergarten,” Natasha Wing, Grosset & Dunlap

2.            “Almost Paradise,” Corabel Shofner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

3.            “The Hate U Give” Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray

4.            “The Book of Mistakes,” Corinna Luyken, Dial

5.            “Stellaluna,” Janell Cannon, Red Wagon              

 

Compiled by University Press of Mississippi

Reported by Bay Window Books (Brandon); Book Mart and Café (Starkville); Lemuria Books (Jackson); Lorelei Books (Vicksburg); Main Street Books (Hattiesburg); Square Books (Oxford); Turnrow Books (Greenwood); Turning Pages (Natchez)

 

Signings

Billy Reedsigns “Messages to Leila” 5 p.m. Monday, Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, 662-236-2262

Darden North signs “The 5 Messages of Death” 5 p.m. Tuesday, Off Square Books, Oxford

Debbie Z. Harwellsigns Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964. 12 noon Wednesday, History Is Lunch series, William Winter Building, 200 North St., Jackson, 601-576-6998

Mississippi Bicentennial and “The Mississippi Encyclopedia” Party with Cody Dickinson and Mary Lindsay Dickinson also signing “I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone”, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Cathead Distillery, 422 South Farish Street, Jackson, 601-667-3038

Carolyn J. Brown signs “The Artist’s Sketch A Biography of Painter Kate Freeman Clark” 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 South Lamar St., Jackson, 601-960-1515

Community book seriessession 3 with “The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Lorelei Books, 1103 Washington St., Vicksburg, 601-634-8624

Jack Spencersigns “This Land” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Fischer Galleries Loft, 736 S. President S., 4th Floor, Jackson, 601-366-7619

Mark Bowden signs “Hue 1968” 5 p.m. Thursday, Off Square Books, Oxford

Bill Ferris signs “The South in Color” 5 p.m. Friday, Fischer Galleries at Event Space 119, 119 S. President St., Jackson, 601-366-7619

'Camino Island' by John Grisham.
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