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2024 Festival COUNTDOWN

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Festival Authors

Stefan Bachmann & April Genevieve Tucholke

The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them

John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil 30th Anniversary Edition

S.A. Cosby

All the Sinners Bleed

Peter Cozzens

A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

Dayton Duncan

Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

Michael Finkel

The Art Thief: A True Story of Passion, Obsession, and a Monumental Crime Spree

Ross Gay

A Book of (More) Delights

Lauren Grodstein

We Must Not Think of Ourselves

Grady Hendrix

How to Sell a Haunted House

Gregg Hurwitz

Lone Wolf: An Orphan X Novel

Jenny Jackson

Pineapple Street

Harrison Scott Key

How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

T.J. Klune

In the Lives of Puppets

Amy Kurzweil

Artificial: A Love Story

Adam Lazarus

The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams

Victor Luckerson

Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

Alice McDermott

Absolution

Susan Meissner

Only the Beautiful

Keith F. Miller, Jr.

Pritty

Sy Montgomery & Matt Patterson

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

Liza Mundy

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

Tim O'Brien

America Fantastica

Jayne Anne Phillips

Night Watch

Alex Prud'homme

Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House

Steven Rowley

Celebrants

Charles Soule

The Endless Vessel

James L. Swanson

The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

Michael L. Thurmond

James Oglethorpe, Father or Georgia: A Founder's Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist

Linda Villarosa

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America

Theodore Wheeler

The War Begins in Paris

Tia Williams

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

Interested in Previous Headliners?

You can watch recordings of past SBF headliners by clicking on the authors below:

2023 Savannah Book Festival

George Dawes Green
Preston & Child
David Maraniss

2022 Savannah Book Festival

David Baldacci
William Kent Krueger
Friends & Fiction

2020 Savannah Book Festival

Joseph Kanon
John Grisham
John Becker and Megan Scott

2019 Savannah Book Festival

Daniel Krauthammer
George and Paula Saunders
Sara Vincent and Lynn Vladic
Chris Stirewalt

2018 Savannah Book Festival

Diana Gabaldon
Lisa Ko
Jodi Picoult

2017 Savannah Book Festival

James Patterson
Colson Whitehead
Christina Baker Kline

 

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