Books Set in Mississippi

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Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History
Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History 3.87 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Midnight Without a Moon (Rose Lee Carter #1)
Midnight Without a Moon (Rose Lee Carter #1) 4.16 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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The Ponder Heart
The Ponder Heart 3.63 avg rating — 2,227 ratings
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Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta 4.15 avg rating — 8,391 ratings
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The Firm
The Firm 4.25 avg rating — 109,578 ratings
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How to Survive a Summer
How to Survive a Summer 3.68 avg rating — 873 ratings
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Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks #1)
Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks #1) 3.80 avg rating — 11,455 ratings
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Miss Jane
Miss Jane 3.94 avg rating — 5,824 ratings
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Sweet and Deadly
Sweet and Deadly 3.42 avg rating — 6,699 ratings
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Secrets of Southern Girls
Secrets of Southern Girls 3.62 avg rating — 1,744 ratings
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So Red the Rose (Southern Classics Series)
So Red the Rose (Southern Classics Series) 3.44 avg rating — 84 ratings
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No Cats Allowed (Cat in the Stacks #7)
No Cats Allowed (Cat in the Stacks #7) 4.15 avg rating — 3,706 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,438 ratings
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Tap Roots (Dabney Family Saga #2)
Tap Roots (Dabney Family Saga #2) 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta 4.22 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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Magnolia (Magnolia Branch, #1)
Magnolia (Magnolia Branch, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 7,524 ratings
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The Town (The Snopes Trilogy, #2)
The Town (The Snopes Trilogy, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
by: Ted Gioia
4.30 avg rating — 753 ratings
119.
Civil Wars
Civil Wars really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 61 ratings
120.
The Mansion (The Snopes Trilogy, #3)
The Mansion (The Snopes Trilogy, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi
We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi 4.49 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Yard War
Yard War 3.89 avg rating — 224 ratings
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My Vicksburg
My Vicksburg 3.54 avg rating — 356 ratings
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Mama's Window
Mama's Window 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son 3.99 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Requiem for a Nun
Requiem for a Nun 3.54 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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Delta Wedding
Delta Wedding 3.61 avg rating — 3,773 ratings
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Devil's Backbone, The: The Story of the Natchez Trace (Pelican Pouch Series)
Devil's Backbone, The: The Story of the Natchez Trace (Pelican Pouch Series) 3.35 avg rating — 97 ratings
129.
The Racketeer
The Racketeer 3.90 avg rating — 113,668 ratings
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Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South 4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It
Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It 4.20 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Bride of Fortune: A Novel Based on the Life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis
Bride of Fortune: A Novel Based on the Life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues (American Made Music Series)
Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues (American Made Music Series) 3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Healing
The Healing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,787 ratings
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Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon
Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon 4.35 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer 3.91 avg rating — 433 ratings
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How I Found the Strong
How I Found the Strong 3.89 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Darkest Corner
The Darkest Corner 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi 3.80 avg rating — 503 ratings
140.
Good-Bye, My Lady
Good-Bye, My Lady 4.27 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman
Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear 4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era 4.43 avg rating — 2,080 ratings
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Rivers (Rivers, #1)
Rivers (Rivers, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
145.
The Ministry
The Ministry 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
145.
Alpha One (Shadow Agents, #1)
Alpha One (Shadow Agents, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
145.
Silver Rights: The story of the Carter family's brave decision to send their children to an all-white school and claim their civil rights
Silver Rights: The story of the Carter family's brave decision to send their children to an all-white school and claim their civil rights 4.03 avg rating — 118 ratings
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To Square a Circle
To Square a Circle
by: T.K. Lee
4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
145.
Alligator Lake
Alligator Lake 4.07 avg rating — 622 ratings
145.
Fast Cash
Fast Cash 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi
Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
145.
Hidden Deep (Hidden Saga, #1)
Hidden Deep (Hidden Saga, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 6,098 ratings
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Ramona Blue
Ramona Blue 3.91 avg rating — 12,363 ratings
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Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America
Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America 3.87 avg rating — 324 ratings
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The Black Queen
The Black Queen 3.98 avg rating — 3,481 ratings
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Can't Quit You, Baby
Can't Quit You, Baby 3.92 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Manhunting in Mississippi
Manhunting in Mississippi 3.91 avg rating — 347 ratings
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A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi
A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mercy (Buchanan-Renard, #2)
Mercy (Buchanan-Renard, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 22,122 ratings
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D'Leaux, Mississippi: Life From Moss to Tuckertown
D'Leaux, Mississippi: Life From Moss to Tuckertown 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Moon of the Wolf
Moon of the Wolf 2.93 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Boys from Biloxi
The Boys from Biloxi 4.05 avg rating — 91,906 ratings
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The Levee
The Levee 3.51 avg rating — 4,191 ratings
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Pearl's Progress
Pearl's Progress 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Ford County
Ford County 3.72 avg rating — 28,028 ratings
164.
Home to Holly Springs (Mitford Years, #10)
Home to Holly Springs (Mitford Years, #10)
by: Jan Karon
4.20 avg rating — 13,583 ratings
164.
A Legacy of Vengeance
A Legacy of Vengeance 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
164.
The Murderer Vine
The Murderer Vine 3.68 avg rating — 253 ratings
164.
Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project 4.10 avg rating — 397 ratings
164.
Yazoo:Integration In A Deep-Southern Town
Yazoo:Integration In A Deep-Southern Town 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings
164.
Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning 3.86 avg rating — 185 ratings
164.
Summer Secrets
Summer Secrets 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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North Toward Home: A Memoir
North Toward Home: A Memoir 4.10 avg rating — 763 ratings
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The Ranger (Quinn Colson, #1)
The Ranger (Quinn Colson, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 6,999 ratings
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A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season
A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Homecoming for Murder
A Homecoming for Murder 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi 4.28 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Black Was the Ink
Black Was the Ink 4.37 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Into the Free
Into the Free 3.95 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
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Lynch Street: The May 1970 Slayings at Jackson State
Lynch Street: The May 1970 Slayings at Jackson State 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Hidden in the Fog
Hidden in the Fog 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Claiming Georgia Tate
Claiming Georgia Tate 3.81 avg rating — 386 ratings
183.
The Sharpshooter Blues
The Sharpshooter Blues 4.09 avg rating — 522 ratings
183.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.24 avg rating — 7,824 ratings
183.
Sleep No More
Sleep No More
by: Greg Iles
3.75 avg rating — 10,620 ratings
183.
The Fallen (Quinn Colson, #7)
The Fallen (Quinn Colson, #7) 4.01 avg rating — 2,534 ratings
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Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South
Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South 4.12 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Last Gentleman
The Last Gentleman 3.81 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
183.
The Courting of Marcus Dupree
The Courting of Marcus Dupree 4.30 avg rating — 237 ratings
183.
Cruel As the Grave
Cruel As the Grave 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
183.
The Myth of Perpetual Summer
The Myth of Perpetual Summer 3.96 avg rating — 3,404 ratings
183.
Love, Ruby Lavender
Love, Ruby Lavender 4.07 avg rating — 4,881 ratings
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Of Long Memory: Mississippi And The Murder Of Medgar Evers
Of Long Memory: Mississippi And The Murder Of Medgar Evers 4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Boy with Loaded Gun: A Memoir
Boy with Loaded Gun: A Memoir 3.60 avg rating — 225 ratings
194.
Mississippi and the Great Depression
Mississippi and the Great Depression liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Long Line of Cakes
A Long Line of Cakes 3.91 avg rating — 239 ratings
194.
Squall in the Gulf
Squall in the Gulf 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared
The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared 3.71 avg rating — 15,891 ratings
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Mississippi Possum
Mississippi Possum 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Wild Palms
The Wild Palms 3.86 avg rating — 5,691 ratings
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