19 books
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18 voters
Memphis Books
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The Rainmaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.02 — 209,157 ratings — published 1995
The Firm (The Firm, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.26 — 116,661 ratings — published 1991
The Client (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.06 — 464,601 ratings — published 1993
Memphis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.08 — 39,416 ratings — published 2022
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.40 — 737,131 ratings — published 2017
The Firm (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.07 — 639,200 ratings — published 1995
Paperboy (Library Binding)
by (shelved 8 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,153 ratings — published 2013
Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.81 — 381 ratings — published 2015
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,753 ratings — published 2006
A Summons to Memphis (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.62 — 6,879 ratings — published 1986
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,684 ratings — published 2010
From Here to the Great Unknown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.23 — 109,239 ratings — published
Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.67 — 55 ratings — published
Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.29 — 1,696 ratings — published 2014
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.29 — 772 ratings — published 2018
The Blind Side (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.17 — 101,283 ratings — published 2006
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.31 — 782 ratings — published 2013
Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.72 — 213 ratings — published 2012
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,225 ratings — published 1994
Red Lily (In the Garden, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.11 — 43,376 ratings — published 2005
The Reivers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.77 — 8,180 ratings — published 1962
Blue Dahlia (In the Garden, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.14 — 76,798 ratings — published 2004
Delicious and Suspicious (A Memphis BBQ Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.40 — 1,275 ratings — published 2010
Rowdy Memphis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.62 — 21 ratings — published 2004
Black Rose (In the Garden #2)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,552 ratings — published 2005
While We Were Burning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.21 — 1,784 ratings — published 2024
It Came From Memphis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.13 — 569 ratings — published 1995
Tear It Down (Peter Ash, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,271 ratings — published 2019
Mourning Dove (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.94 — 329 ratings — published 2018
Shirley, Goodness & Mercy: A Childhood in Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.22 — 349 ratings — published 2004
Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,472 ratings — published 1985
Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'N' Roll (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.06 — 266 ratings — published 1991
On This Day in Memphis History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.62 — 13 ratings — published 2014
Brief History of Memphis, A (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.47 — 47 ratings — published 2011
A Dangerous Road (Smokey Dalton, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,004 ratings — published 2000
Shadows of the Past (Logan Point #1)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,954 ratings — published 2014
What Happened on Beale Street (Secrets of the South Mysteries #2)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.91 — 386 ratings — published 2016
Clarence Saunders and the Founding of Piggly Wiggly: The Rise & Fall of a Memphis Maverick (Landmarks)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.92 — 51 ratings — published 2011
Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,313 ratings — published 2006
Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South (New Directions in Southern Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.86 — 36 ratings — published 2009
A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.12 — 828,795 ratings — published 1989
No Escape: A Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson Mystery (Walker Mystery)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 2.78 — 9 ratings — published 1998
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.59 — 3,143 ratings — published 2009
Don't Ever Get Old (Buck Schatz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,022 ratings — published 2012
The Road to Memphis (Logans, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,904 ratings — published 1992
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,902 ratings — published 2002
The Ladies Auxiliary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,595 ratings — published 1999
Haunted Memphis (Haunted America)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 3.61 — 108 ratings — published 2009
A Guide to Historic Downtown Memphis (History & Guide)
by (shelved 2 times as memphis)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2010
“Some nights, we have the road to ourselves and the radio sings only for us. We play our shows and tear-ass out. Tonight, it was this little dive bar in a town we took to calling East Motherless. But we play, no matter. We rock and then we roll. The soundcheck and the fury, the power chord and the glory. Then we load our gear into a muddy-brown Merc with a little trailer behind, and we’re off. Slinging gravel, filling sky with road.”
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“He would return again and again to the same themes over the years, with different details and different emphases, but always with the same underlying message: the inherent nobility not so much of man as of FREEDOM, and the implied responsibility - no, the OBLIGATION - for each of us to be as different as our individuated natures allowed us to be. To be different, in Sam's words, IN THE EXTREME.”
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