The 2018 Winter Okra Picks have been selected by Southern Indie Booksellers – a season's worth of delicious reading with a Southern flavor. This season's harvest is a bumper crop of eighteen delicious reads.

All the Okra Picks have a strong Southern focus and publish between January and March, and all have fans among Southern indie booksellers – who have chosen these dozen and a half – books as those they are most excited to hand sell. And all will make readers push them into the hands of friends and family, saying, "You've got to read this!

The Road to Bittersweet by Donna Everhart
Kensington Publishing Corporation | 9781496709493 | 15.95 | January 2018

Steal Away Home by Billy Coffey
Thomas Nelson | 9780718084448 | 15.99 | January 2018

Robicheaux by James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster 9781501176845 27.99 January 2018

Daily Writing Resilience: 365 Meditations & Inspirations for Writers by Bryan Robinson
Llewellyn Publications | 9780738753430 | 19.99 | January 2018

    

Under a Cloudless Sky by Chris Fabry
Tyndale House Publishers | 9781414387789 | 15.99 | January 2018

Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro
Grove Press | 9780802127044 | 24.00 | January 2018

The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce
Riverhead Books | 9781594632532 | 27.00 | January 2018

The Problim Children by Natalie Lloyd
Katherine Tegen Books | 9780062428202 | 16.99 | January 2018

    

Marabel and the Book of Fate by Tracy Barrett
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 9780316433990 | 16.99 | February 2018

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Algonquin Books | 9781616201340 | 26.95 | February 2018

Promise by Minrose Gwin
William Morrow & Company | 9780062471710 | 25.99 | February 2018

Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith
Hub City Press | 9781938235382 | 27.00 | March 2018

    

Dreaming in Chocolate by Susan Bishop Crispell
St. Martin's Griffin | 9781250089076 | 15.99 | February 2018

Daisy Cakes Bakes: Keepsake Recipes for Southern Layer Cakes, Pies, Cookies, and More by Kim Nelson
Clarkson Potter Publishers | 9780451499417 | 25.00 | February 2018

The Hush by John Hart
Thomas Dunne Books | 9781250012302 | 27.99 | February 2018

The Past Is Never by Tiffany Quay Tyson
Skyhorse Publishing | 9781510726826 | $24.99 | March 2018

  

Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown
St. Martin's Press | 9781250111777 | $25.99 | March 2018

I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
Doubleday Books | 9780385541695 | $26.95 | March 2018

Find more information about the Okra Picks at AuthorsRoundtheSouth.com/okra