Lee’s new book, Mrs. Darcy Meets the Blue-Eyed Stranger, will be published in March, 2010 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. It is a collection of new and selected stories.

For a list of Lee Smith's recommended books, click here.

Click to hear Lee Smith read a portion of The Last Girls.

Click Here for information on Barbara Bates Smith's new one-woman show On Agate Hill. Read the review or check out her schedule.

Lee's Top 10 Booklist

  1. Serena, by Ron Rash

  2. Something's Rising, by Silas House and Jason Howard

  3. Lark and Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips

  4. Emily's Ghost, by Denise Giardina

  5. Costs, by Roxana Robinson

  6. Eli the Good, by Silas House

  7. A Sheltered Life, Ellen Glasgow

  8. Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan

  9. Olive Kitteredge, by Elizabeth Strout

  10. Going Away Shoes, by Jill McCorkle