List of novels set in Birmingham

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This is a List of novels set in Birmingham:

• Mountain (1920) by Clement Wood
• Nigger (1922) by Clement Wood
• Bed Rock (1924) by Jack Bethea
• Bigger and Blacker (1925) by Octavus Roy Cohen
• The Deep Seam (1926) by Jack Bethea
• Honor Bound (1927) by Jack Bethea
• Hilltop in the Rain (1928) by James Saxon Childers
• No Surrender (1932) by Emma Gelders Sterne
• Amarantha Gay, M.D. (1933) by Emma Gelders Sterne
• Calico Ball (1934) by Emma Gelders Sterne
• A Novel About a White Man and a Black Man in the Deep South (1936) by James Saxon Childers
• Black Earth (1937) by Thomas Rowan
• The Last Gentlemen (1966) by Walker Percy
• Stay Hungry (1972) by Charles Gaines
• Fried Green Tomoatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe (1987) by Fannie Flagg
• Gathering Home (1988) by Vicki Covington
• Iced Tea and Ignorance (1989) by Howard Russell
• Streets of Fire (1989) by Thomas Cook
• B-Four (1992) by Sam Hodges
• Invisible Life (1994) by E. Lynn Harris
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 (1995) by Christopher Watson
• The Last Hotel for Women (1996) by Vicki Covington
• Silk (1998) by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Perfect Love (2000) by Mary Harvatich
• Thanh Ho Delivers (2000) by Fred Bonnie
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (2000) by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Night Ride Home (2001) by Vicki Covington
• Threshold: A Novel of Deep Time (2001) by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Bombingham (2002) by Anthony Grooms
• Four Spirits (2003) by Sena Jeter Naslund
• Murder of Angels (2004) by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The City of Churches (2004) by Kenneth Robbins
• Singing Hands (2006) by Delia Ray
• Moretti Code (2006) by Jay Taylor
• I Still Dream About You (2010) by Fannie Flagg
• Weightless (2015) by Sarah Bannon
• The Headmaster's Darlings: A Mountain Brook Novel (2015) by Katherine Clarke

Romance novels

• Behind Every Cloud (1990) by Peg Sutherland

Mystery novels

• Octavus Roy Cohen novels
• Southern Sisters series (1996-2001) by Anne George

References

• Spence, Ruth S. (1973) Bibliography of Birmingham, Alabama, 1872–1972
• Brown, Steven Ford (1983) Contemporary Literature in Birmingham: An Anthology
• Cather, Patrick (1993) Birmingham Bound: Opinionated and Often Irreverent Essays on the Fifty Most Important Books About Alabama's Largest City
• Hitchcock, Bert "Birmingham, Alabama" in Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, Todd W. Taylor (2002) The companion to Southern literature: themes, genres, places, people, movements, and motifs.. Baton Rouge, Louisiana:LSU Press ISBN 9780807126929

External links

• Birmingham, Alabama on goodreads.com
• Novels set in Alabama on en.wikipedia.org