Photos courtesy of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, St. Martin’s Press, and Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

Southerners have a way with words. Here, Trisha Ping, managing editor of BookPage, shares her favorite new releases from her fall reading list: In Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick, a newcomer makes his home in mid-century small-town Virginia, disrupting their peace and purity.

In Julia Keller’s debut novel, A Killing in the Hills, 17-year-old Carla Elkins unearths the truth about her crime-stricken Appalachian home.

Love’s Winning Plays by Inman Majors takes a comedic look at love and SEC football in small towns across the South.

We’re restocking our bookshelves stat!