FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 1, 2019

(Asheville, NC) –Southern indie booksellers have announced their 2019 Summer Okra Picks, a baker’s dozen of the titles they are most looking forward to telling their customers to try. Taken together, the Okra Picks are not your average summer reading list – each book was chosen because it is Southern in nature and has devoted fans in the Southern indie bookselling community. The Summer Okra Picks release in July, August, and September, and every book on the list has a Southern bookseller ready to put it in the hands of readers with that most exciting phrase in the English language, “You’ve got to read this!”
Southern independent bookstores – we grow good books!

Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
Milkweed Editions, July 2019

The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis
Sourcebooks Landmark, July 2019

The Substitution Order by Martin Clark
Knopf, July 2019

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, July 2019

Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
William Morrow, July 2019

The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins
Gallery Books, July 2019

Sing a Song by Kelly Starling Lyons, Keith Mallett (Illus.)
Nancy Paulsen Books, August 2019

Stay by Bobbie Pyron
Katherine Tegen Books, August 2019

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
Grove Press, August 2019

My Jasper June by Laurel Snyder
Walden Pond Press, September 2019

The Edge of America by Jon Sealy
Haywire Books, September 2019

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Riverhead Books, September 2019

No Judgments by Meg Cabot
William Morrow, September 2019

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