July 16, 2017
The Crook’s Corner Book Prize Foundation announces its annual Longlist for best debut novels set in the American South. The $5000 prize will be presented in January 2018. The Longlist, selected from 42 entries, is:
![](https://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Home-Field-Hannah-Gersen-1.png)
Home Field
by Hannah Gersen
(William Morrow Paperbacks)
![](https://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Rabbit-Cake-Annie-Hartnett-1-661x1024.jpg)
Rabbit Cake
by Annie Hartnett
(Tin House Books)
![](https://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bonnie-Clyde-1.png)
Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie & Clyde in the Last Days
by Jeff P. Jones
(Texas Review Press)
![](https://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Knipper_PeculiarMiracles-1.jpg)
The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin
by Stephanie Knipper
(Algonquin Books)
![](https://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Barrowfields-1.jpg)
The Barrowfields
by Phillip Lewis
(Hogarth)
![](https://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Infinite-1-680x1024.jpg)
The Infinite
by Nicholas Mainieri
(HarperCollins)
![](https://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mama-Bone-1.jpg)
One Good Mama Bone
by Bren McClain
(Story River Books/University of South Carolina Press)
![](https://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Thomas-Sally.jpg)
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
by Stephen O’Connor
(Viking)
![](https://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Work-No-Other.jpg)
Work Like Any Other
by Virginia Reeves
(Scribner)