10 Bestselling Novels Set in Tennessee
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The Firm
John Grisham
Set in: Memphis
This blockbuster legal thriller follows a young lawyer lured to work for a seemingly prestigious Memphis law firm.
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The Client
John Grisham
Set in: Memphis
and New Orleans
A young boy sees something he shouldn’t have and finds himself in trouble with the mafia.
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Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver
Set in: fictional mountain town of Feathertown
A woman discovers a a swarm of butterflies that aren’t supposed to be there.
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Christy
Catherine Marshall
Set in: fictional mountain town of Cutter Gap
A young woman leaves her comfortable life to teach in rural Appalachia in 1912.
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A Death in the Family
James Agee
Set in: Knoxville
A Tennessee family struggles after a patriarch's sudden death.
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The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy
Set in: fictional mountain town of Red Branch
Lives interconnect in the period of World War I and World War II amid bootlegging and mountain survival with violence and vengeance.
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Suttree
Cormac McCarthy
Set in: Knoxville
A man gives up his life of privilege to live on the edges of society on a houseboat on the Tennessee River.
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Child of God
Cormac McCarthy
Set in: Sevier County
A man descends into depravity and serial murder after being ostracized by society.
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A Summons to Memphis
Peter Taylor
Set in: Memphis
A man is called back to Memphis from New York by his sisters to stop their widowed father remarrying.
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Night Rider
Robert Penn Warren
Set in: rural Middle Tennessee
A young lawyer’s life is wracked by pain and grief as he attempts ot make a name for himself in a fictionalized version of the “Black Patch Wars,” battles between Kentucky snd Tennessee tobacco farmers.
