Georgia Center for the Book, the state’s Library of Congress nonprofit affiliate based in the DeKalb County Library System, has released its annual lists of Books All Georgians Should Read for 2024.
Rough Draft is proud to announce that two of our contributors have made this year’s list including Above the Waterline columnist Sally Bethea for her memoir Keeping the Chattahoochee, and Julie E. Bloemeke, who co-edited Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology.
Books All Georgians Should Read 2024
Bethea, Sally Sierer, Keeping the Chattahoochee: Reviving and Defending a Great Southern River (Nonfiction)
Blake, John, More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew (Nonfiction)
Bloemeke, Julie E. and Brookshire, Dustin (Editors), Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Poetry)
Ductan, Monic, Daughters of Muscadine (Fiction)
Jones, Anita Gail, The Peach Seed (Fiction)
Keng, Natalie, Egg Rolls & Sweet Tea: Asian Inspired, Southern Style (Nonfiction/Cookbook)
May, James Davis, Unusually Grand Ideas (Poetry)
Oakley, Colleen, The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise (Fiction)
Watson, Ruth P., A Right Worthy Woman (Fiction)
Woo, Ilyon, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom (Nonfiction)
Books All Young Georgians Should Read 2024
Collier, Nicole D., The Many Fortunes of Maya (Middle Grade)
Fang, X., Dim Sum Palace (Picture Book)
Isley, Sierra, In the Ring (YA)
Lowery, Mike, Everything Awesome About: Dangerous Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Beasts! (Picture Book)
McCloskey, Shanda (Illustrator), Nubby (Picture Book)
Mufleh, Luma, From Here (YA )
Strickland, Shadra, Jump In! (Picture Book)
Ross,…
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