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Joshilyn Jackson

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Jackson's latest, WITH MY LITTLE EYE pubs April 25, 2023. Pre-order now!

New York Times and USA today bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson is the author of WITH MY LITTLE EYE and nine other books, including NEVER HAVE I EVER, MOTHER MAY I, and THE ALMOST SISTERS. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, won SIBA’s novel of the year, three times been a #1 Book Sense Pick, been the Target Book Club Pick, a Barnes and Noble Pick of the Month, and the Sunday Times Thriller fo the Month. A former actor, Jackson reads the audio versions of her novels; her work in this field has been nominated for the Audie Award, was selected by AudioFile Magazine for their best of the year list, and garnered two Listen Up Awards from Publis ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 227,284 ratings · 27,857 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	Never Have I Ever 3.73 avg rating — 54,913 ratings — published 2019 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Almost Sisters 3.95 avg rating — 28,569 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gods in Alabama 3.86 avg rating — 23,695 ratings — published 2005 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother May I 3.82 avg rating — 23,091 ratings — published 2021 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty 3.93 avg rating — 20,611 ratings — published 2010 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between, Georgia 3.88 avg rating — 16,005 ratings — published 2006 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Someone Else's Love Story 3.66 avg rating — 14,894 ratings — published 2013 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Opposite of Everyone 3.89 avg rating — 11,824 ratings — published 2016 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Who Stopped Swimming 3.49 avg rating — 12,748 ratings — published 2008 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Backseat Saints 3.82 avg rating — 10,968 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Springtime and The Shelf of Shame

Here in Georgia, SPRING has sprung.

You: What are talking about? This is Ju—-

Me: LA LA LA WHAT I CANNOT HEAR YOU.

You: Summer is half ov—

Me: LOOK!!! A SQUIRREL. A SPRING SQUIRREL, SPRINGING. SHUT UP.

So it is spring, and now is that terrible time when we must do THE PURGING OF THE BOOKS. Here is a sample of just one shelf, and they are ALL this bad, and they are ALL over my house.

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Joshilyn Jackson answered DEBRA DEHAMER's question: I’m curious about Vina and Wattie’s husbands in the book Almost Sisters… …I remember Floyd was mentioned, but nothing much else about those 2 men? It was such an interesting and mysterious and enjoyable story! Thank you! Thanks Debra! I think that's a function of the narrator. The only POV belongs to Leia, and she stays focused on the people she loves most and the drama that is swirlign around them.
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Joshilyn Jackson answered John Drury's question: Is your new book 'With My Little Eye' coming out on Kindle? Yes -- all my books are available in paper form and as ebooks and audiobooks. :)
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“God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Gods in Alabama

tags: cry, crying, god, help

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“There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Gods in Alabama

tags: alabama, first-sentence, opening-lines

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“I had been born and mostly raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to find a way to reach him. Southern girls are trained from birth up that the way to a man's heart is never through the front door. They may leave a basket of cookies there, and while he's busy picking them up, they're squirming in through a back window.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Gods in Alabama

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Polls

December BoTM Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books move onto final poll

This Tender Land

by William Kent Krueger

9 votes, 21.4%

The Giver of Stars

by Jojo Moyes

7 votes, 16.7%

Recursion

by Blake Crouch

6 votes, 14.3%

Never Have I Ever

by Joshilyn Jackson

5 votes, 11.9%

The Oysterville Sewing Circle

by Susan Wiggs

4 votes, 9.5%

Ask Again, Yes

by Mary Beth Keane

4 votes, 9.5%

I Know Who You Are

by Alice Feeney

2 votes, 4.8%

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

by Dani Shapiro

2 votes, 4.8%

The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

2 votes, 4.8%

The Fountains of Silence

by Ruta Sepetys

1 vote, 2.4%

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“This is what it means to die: You do not finish.”
― Lydia Netzer, Shine Shine Shine

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“Who cares if it's dangerous? Who wants to be the person who doesn't touch two bells together to make a sound, who doesn't hit a baseball with a bat, doesn't grind and orange against a knife. In life, there is only collision to keep us from dissolution, and there is only love to keep us from death. In this bumping into that, there is salvation and sacrament, an end to the endless falling, a wall between us and oblivion.”
― Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

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“It’s more like every electron in every atom in the universe paused, breathed in deeply, assessed the situation, and then reversed its course, spinning backward, or the other way, which was the right way all along. And afterward, the universe was exactly the same, but infinitely more right.”
― Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

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“As if it would slide off their brains at an angle, leaving a scuff mark.”
― Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

tags: attention, hear, learn, listen

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“Sometimes you just have to keep away from the things that are trying to kill you, even if they're the same thing that gave birth to you. Sometimes those two things are the same, and their name is mother.”
― Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

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