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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:

Home Field
by Hannah Gersen
(William Morrow Paperbacks)

Rabbit Cake
by Annie Hartnett
(Tin House Books)

Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie & Clyde in the Last Days
by Jeff P. Jones
(Texas Review Press)

The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin
by Stephanie Knipper
(Algonquin Books)

Barrowfields, Phillip Lewis, Book Cover, Crook's Corner Long List

The Barrowfields
by Phillip Lewis
(Hogarth)

The Infinite
by Nicholas Mainieri
(HarperCollins)

One Good Mama Bone
by Bren McClain
(Story River Books/University of South Carolina Press)

Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
by Stephen O’Connor
(Viking)

Work Like Any Other
by Virginia Reeves
(Scribner)

The Second Mrs. Hockaday
by Susan Rivers
(Algonquin Books)

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