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Books by John Shelton Reed

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The Ramos Gin Fizz
Forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press, Summer 2025  

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On Barbecue
University of Tennessee Press, 2021    

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  From the reviews. . . 

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Mixing It Up
A South-Watcher's Miscellany

Louisiana State University Press, 2018.
 
​       From the reviews. . . 


  


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  ​Leftovers
    Bozart Books, 2018.   

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​Barbecue
​A Savor the South
® Cookbook 
University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

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From the reviews. . .
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Selection, Good Cook Book Club

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​Dixie Bohemia
A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s 

Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

​      From the reviews. . .




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​Holy Smoke
The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
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(with Dale Volberg Reed and William McKinney).
University of North Carolina Press, 2008; paperback edition, 2016.
      From the reviews. . . 


Picketed by PETA at Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, 2009
Finalist, International Association of Culinary Professionals American Cookbook Award, 2009
​Named "Great Book on Barbecue" by the Australasian Barbecue Alliance, 2014
​First Place, National Barbecue ​Association Awards of Excellence, 2017
Selected by the North Carolina Center for the Book to represent North Carolina in 2019
​        Route1Reads

Named one of "Seven Classic BBQ Road Trip Books" by The Smoke Sheet newsletter, 2024

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​Cornbread Nation 4
The Best of Southern Food Writing

(edited with Dale Volberg Reed).
University of Georgia Press, 2008.
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      From the reviews. . . 

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​Townways of Kent
by Ralph C. Patrick
​(edited and with a new introduction by JSR and Dale Volberg Reed).
University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

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​Minding the South
University of Missouri Press, 2003; Transaction Publishers (now Routledge), 2013.

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 ​     From the reviews. . . .

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1001 Things Everyone Should Know
      About the South
 

​(with Dale Volberg Reed).
Doubleday, 1996; Main Street Books, 1997.
     From the reviews. . .


​Alternate selection, Conservative Book Club

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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. . 

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A Church Times Book of the Year, 1997
Recommended reading, Project Canterbury

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​Kicking Back
Further Dispatches from the South

University of Missouri Press, 1995.

 ​     From the reviews. . . 

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​Surveying the South
Studies in Regional Sociology

University of Missouri Press, 1993.
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      From the reviews. . . 

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​My Tears Spoiled My Aim
    and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

University of Missouri Press, 1993; Harcourt Brace/Harvest Books, 1994.
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      From the reviews. . . .

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​Whistling Dixie
Dispatches from the South

University of Missouri Press, 1990; HBJ/Harvest Books ed., 1992.
     
​      From the reviews. . . .

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​​Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy
Native White Social Types

University of Georgia Press, 1986.

      From the reviews. . .

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

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One South
An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture

Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

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From the reviews. . .
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​​Featured Selection, North Carolina Book Club

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​Regionalism and the South
Selected Papers of Rupert Vance
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(edited and with an introduction by JSR and Daniel Joseph Singal).
University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
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​Perspectives on the American South
An Annual Review of Society, Politics and Culture

(edited with Merle Black)
Gordon & Breach, Science Publishers, Vol. 1, 1981, and Vol. 2, 1983.
      From the reviews. . .

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​The Enduring Effects of Education
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(with Herbert H. Hyman and Charles R. Wright)
University of Chicago Press, 1975.

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​The Enduring South
Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society

D. C. Heath, 1972; University of North Carolina Press, 1974 (revised edition, 1986).

      From the reviews. . . .

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