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The following link is for Publisher's Weekly's list of bestselling hardcover books for the entire century. This archive presents all of those bestsellers (top 10 annually) from this century. It is a data feature only presented by Cader Books.
Bestseller Lists
1950-1995

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As a class I suppose the Southern aristocrat is extinct, but what that class despised as vulgar and treasured as excellent is still despised  and treasured by individuals scattered thickly from one end of the South to the other. Those individuals born into a world of tradesfolk are still aristocrats, with an uncanny ability to recognize their kind. Their distinguishing characteristic probably is that their hearts are set, not on the virtues which make surviving possible, but on those which make it worth while.

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Lanterns on the Levee

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National Book Award Authors from 1950 to Present

The Foundation's website now has a full list of National Book Award Winners and Finalists from 1950 to present. The list, in down-loadable PDF form, includes the names of the authors and the year and title of the work for which they were honored. To view a PDF of the list, click here:

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2008 SIBA FINALISTS
& WINNERS

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Literature
&
Greenville:
it’s like
drinking
the
brown water.

It’s just
what we do.

 

Read any good books lately? We have. Here are some of our recent favorites and a few from over the years, in no particular order. Just click on the title for a review*  then click BACK on your tool bar to return to this page.  Please contact us with any questions. We stock these books and an ever-changing inventory of signed editions and regional out-of-print titles.  Our preferred shipping is UPS and we accept Visa and MasterCard.

TITLE

AUTHOR

COST

Delta Deep Down
photography

Jane Rule Burdine

cloth
$40.00

Wishbones
fiction

Carolyn Haines

cloth
$23.95

Delta Dreamin'
art

Gary Walters

cloth
$40.00

Delta Dreamin'
 Lies and Other Truths: Rants, Raves, Low-Lifes, and Highballs
nonfiction

Jim Dees

paper
$17.95

Lies

The House on First Street:
My New Orleans Story
nonfiction

Julia Reed

cloth
$23.95

Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns,
& Other Southern Specialties:
An Entertaining Life

[With Recipes]
food & recipes

Julia Reed

cloth
$23.95

Off the Deep End
nonfiction

W. Hodding
Carter IV

cloth
$21.95

Cooling the South
nonfiction

Elli Morrris

cloth
$35.00

Hallam's War
fiction
Elisabeth Payne Rosen cloth
$25.95

A Dangerous Age
fiction
Ellen Gilchrist cloth
$23.95
Highway 61:
Heart of the Delta

nonfiction/photography
Randall Norris
J.P. Cypres
cloth
$36.95
New South Grilling
cooking
Robert St. Johncloth
$29.95
Mudbound
fiction
Hillary Jordancloth
$22.95
The Mississippi
Story

art history
Patti Carr Blackcloth
$29.95
On the Road to Freedom
nonfiction
Charles E. Cobb Jr.paper
$18.95
Fireflies in Fruit Jars
short stories
The Red Dog Writerspaper
$16.00
Southern Seasons
recipes/art
Robert St. John
Wyatt Waters
cloth
$34.95
So Italian
recipes/travel/art
Paul Canonicicloth
$45.00
Katrina: Misissippi Women Remember
photography/essays
Melody Goldingcloth
$22.00
Ham Bones
fiction
Carolyn Hainescloth
$22.00

paper
$6.99

Ham Bones
Historic Churches
of Mississippi

photography
Sherry Pacecloth
$40.00
Historic Churches
The Four Dog
Blues Band

children's
fiction
Miss. Museum
of Art
Maggie Dunlap, illus.
cloth
$15.95
Four Dog Blues Band
2008 SIBA
NONFICTION FINALIST
!
Someone Is
Going to Die

If Lilly Beth Doesn't
Catch That Bouquet

(humor/food)
Gayden Metcalfe

Charlotte Hays

cloth
$19.95
Somebody
Mississippi
(photography)
Ken Murphycloth
$75.00
Mississippi
Bird of Courage
(nonfiction)
Wade Winemancloth
$24.95
2006 MIAL
NONFICTION WINNER
!
Mississippi
Politics

(nonfiction)
Jere Nash
Andy Taggart
cloth
$32.00
Dunlap
(art)
William Dunlapcloth
 $45.00
(also ltd. ed.)
The End
of California

(fiction)
Steve Yarbroughcloth
$23.00 paper
$13.95
 
The Good Ole Days  
(nonfiction)
Harris Barnescloth
$50.00
jacket
The Delta Italians
(nonfiction)
Paul Canonicicloth
$50.00
Witnessing
(nonfiction)

 

Ellen Douglas

 

cloth
$28.00
Queen of the Turtle Derby
(nonfiction)
 

Julia Reed

 

cloth
$22.95
paper
$12.95
Junior Ray
 
(fiction)

John Pritchard

cloth
$23.95
The Celestial
Jukebox

(fiction)

Cynthia Shearer

cloth
$25.00
paper
$18.95
A Closer Look   
(
nonfiction)

Princella Nowell

cloth
$39.95
Stein Mart
(
nonfiction)

David Ginzl

cloth
$25.00
2006 SIBA
AWARD
WINNER!

Being Dead Is No Excuse  
(humor/food)
Gayden Metcalfe
Charlotte Hays
cloth
$19.95
Being Dead jacket
2000 MIAL PHOTO-
GRAPHY
WINNER!

Delta Land   

(nonfiction)

Maude S. Clay

cloth
$35.00
JACKETS
Only a Few Bones
(nonfiction)

John P. Colletta

paper
$18.00
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