Books

Books by John Shelton Reed

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Mixing It Up: A South-Watcher's Miscellany.
Louisiana State University Press, coming September 2018.
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Leftovers.
Bozart Books, 2018.
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Barbecue: A Savor the South® Cookbook.
University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
From the reviews. . .

Selection, Good Cook Book Club

Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s.
Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
From the reviews. . .

Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue.
(with D. V. Reed).
University of North Carolina Press, 2008; paperback edition, 2016.
From the reviews. . .

Finalist, International Association of Culinary Professionals
American Cookbook Award, 2009.
First Place, National Barbecue Association Awards of Excellence, 2017
Named a "Great Book on Barbecue" by the Australasian Barbecue Alliance

Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing.
(edited with D. V. Reed).
University of Georgia Press, 2008.
From the reviews. . .

Townways of Kent, by Ralph C. Patrick.
(edited and with a new introduction by J. S. Reed and D. V. Reed).
University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Minding the South.
University of Missouri Press, 2003.
Transaction Publishers, 2013.
From the reviews. . . .

1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South
(with D. V. Reed).
Doubleday, 1996.
From the reviews. . .
Alternate selection, Conservative Book Club

Glorious Battle:
The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism.
Vanderbilt University Press, 1996; U.K. edition, Tufton Books, 1998.
Bozart Books, 2017.
From the reviews. . .
Recommended reading, Project Canterbury
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Kicking Back: Further Dispatches from the South.
University of Missouri Press, 1995.
From the reviews. . .

Surveying the South: Studies in Regional Sociology.
University of Missouri Press, 1993.
From the reviews. . .

"My Tears Spoiled My Aim"
and Other Reflections on Southern Culture.
University of Missouri Press, 1993.
Harcourt Brace/Harvest Books, 1994.
From the reviews. . . .

Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South.
University of Missouri Press, 1990.
HBJ/Harvest Books ed., 1992.
From the reviews. . . .

Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types.
University of Georgia Press, 1986.
From the reviews. . .

Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism.
University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
BookSurge Publishing, 2008.
From the reviews. . .

One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture.
Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
(Featured Selection, North Carolina Book Club)
From the reviews. . .

Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert Vance.
(edited and with an introduction by J. S. Reed and D. J. Singal).
University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Perspectives on the American South:
An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture.
(edited with M. Black).
Gordon & Breach, Science Publishers, Vol. 1, 1981, and Vol. 2, 1983.

The Enduring Effects of Education
(with H. Hyman and C. Wright).
University of Chicago Press, 1975.

The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society.
D. C. Heath, 1972.
Paperback ed., University of North Carolina Press, 1974; revised ed., 1986.
From the reviews. . . .