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Southern Living is a lifestyle magazine aimed at readers in the Southern United States featuring recipes, house plans, garden plans, and information about Southern culture and travel. It is published by Birmingham, Alabama–based Southern Progress Corporation, a unit of IAC's Dotdash Meredith. History The magazine was started in 1966 by The Progressive Farmer Company, the publisher of Progressive Farmer magazine. In 1980, the company changed its name to Southern Progress Corporation to reflect its increasingly diverse business, and in 1985, it was purchased by Time, Inc. for $498 million. In 2017 Time, Inc. was purchased by the Meredith Corporation, which acquired by IAC four years later. Cooking One of the major topics in Southern Living is food, and since 1979, the magazine has published a popular Annual Recipes book each year. Homes Southern Living regularly features floorplans, and over the magazine's history, a number of these have become popular home styles in the Southeast. Many of these plans are available for purchase as construction blueprints from the company's website. Southern Living at Home In 2001, Southern Progress Corporation started a party-plan direct marketing company called Southern Living at Home. The products available at the parties include exclusive lines of home accessories and dishware seen in or inspired by Southern Living as well the various books and magazines produced by the company. In April 2010, Southern Living at Home introduced its new name: "Willow House". See also List of United States magazines List of magazines by circulation Jenna Bush Hager Morgan Murphy (food critic) Notes External links Southern Living Southern Progress Corporation Southern Living at HOME Voices of Oklahoma interview with Charles Faudree. First person interview conducted on October 8, 2012, with Charles Faudree, interior designer featured in Southern Living.. Discover the Southern Living popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Southern Living books.

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  • 30 Days to Understanding the Bible synopsis, comments

    30 Days to Understanding the Bible

    Max Anders

    Max Anders' updated classic resource for learning the Bible in 30 days. Understand the Bible in 30 Days includes all the features that made the original so popularplus much more. P...

  • Southern Living Christmas in the Kitchen synopsis, comments

    Southern Living Christmas in the Kitchen

    Editors of Southern Living Magazine

    Readers trust Southern Living for all the best holiday recipes, entertaining, and decorating ideas. Now with Southern Living Christmas in the Kitchen, you can enjoy all the delight...

  • Si-cology 1 synopsis, comments

    Si-cology 1

    Si Robertson

    You know him from the hit A&E® show Duck Dynasty®now you can enjoy Uncle Si’s tall tales, crazy exploits, and quirky oneliners in one raucous collection!“These hands are so fas...

  • Emotions synopsis, comments

    Emotions

    Charles F Stanley

    In this powerful and inspiring book, New York Times bestselling author and trusted pastor Dr. Charles Stanley shares practical guidance and encouragement on a topic that touches ev...

  • Jesus, Continued... synopsis, comments

    Jesus, Continued...

    J.D. Greear

    Encounter the dynamic presence of God as you learn from pastor and author J. D. Greear how to more fully experience the Holy Spirit within you. Jesus gave his disciples the audacio...

  • Southern Living Big Book of Cupcakes synopsis, comments

    Southern Living Big Book of Cupcakes

    Jan Moon

    It's official: The cupcake craze has taken the world by storm. No longer are cupcakes solely for childrenthese handheld treats now must pass muster with tastediscriminating adults ...

  • Church of the Small Things synopsis, comments

    Church of the Small Things

    Melanie Shankle

    Is my ordinary, everyday life actually significant? Is it okay to be fulfilled by the simple acts of raising kids, working in an office, and cooking chicken for dinner?It’s been sa...

  • The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle synopsis, comments

    The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle

    Anne Rice

    An enchanting, hypnotic trilogy of witchcraft, adventure, and romance from the beloved author of Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, The Mayfair Witches is a wondrou...

  • Southern Living Heirloom Recipe Cookbook synopsis, comments

    Southern Living Heirloom Recipe Cookbook

    Editors of Southern Living Magazine

    The pages of this timeless cookbook from Southern Living come to life like you're sitting around the family dining table, with hundreds of cherished recipes that bring back memorie...

  • A Short Guide to a Long Life synopsis, comments

    A Short Guide to a Long Life

    David B. Agus

    The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of ...

  • Southern Living Big Book of Slow Cooking synopsis, comments

    Southern Living Big Book of Slow Cooking

    Editors of Southern Living Magazine

    Southern Living makes it even easier with dozens of tips, complete with howto photographs that expertly and easily guide cooks to perfect results every time. Surprise friends and f...

  • Maggie synopsis, comments

    Maggie

    Charles Martin

    The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin’s The Dead Don’t Dance. After slipping into a fourmonthslong coma following the tragic loss of their son in childbirth, ...

  • Save the Date synopsis, comments

    Save the Date

    Mary Kay Andrews

    Can this wedding be saved?Upandcoming floral designer Cara Kryzik is about to score the wedding of a lifetimeone that will solidify her career as the gotogirl for Savannah society ...

  • Southern Living Ultimate Book of BBQ synopsis, comments

    Southern Living Ultimate Book of BBQ

    Chris Prieto & The Editors of Southern Living

    The Ultimate Book of BBQ builds on the expertise of Southern Living magazine to create the definitive barbecue and outdoor grilling guide. The book features more than 200 of the hi...

  • Simple Dreams synopsis, comments

    Simple Dreams

    Linda Ronstadt

    In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene o...

  • Southern Living Home Cooking Basics synopsis, comments

    Southern Living Home Cooking Basics

    Editors of Southern Living Magazine

    With a backdrop of easytofollow, delicious Southern recipes, Southern Living Home Cooking Basics, presents the principles of traditional cooking in a visually stunning, photographi...

  • Southern Living Best Southern Desserts synopsis, comments

    Southern Living Best Southern Desserts

    The Editors of Southern Living

    You’ll treasure this ultimate collection of dessert recipes from the editors and test kitchen pros at Southern Living. We went back to our archives to find the best recipes we’ve p...

  • Robert E. Lee and Me synopsis, comments

    Robert E. Lee and Me

    Ty Seidule

    "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Poi...

  • When Crickets Cry synopsis, comments

    When Crickets Cry

    Charles Martin

    From the bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us comes the moving story of a man with a painful past, a little girl with a doubtful future, and a shared journey tow...

  • My Vanishing Country synopsis, comments

    My Vanishing Country

    Bakari Sellers

    New York Times BestsellerWhat J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst  and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari ...

  • Whiskey in a Teacup synopsis, comments

    Whiskey in a Teacup

    Reese Witherspoon

    Academy Award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with...

  • Make Something Good Today synopsis, comments

    Make Something Good Today

    Erin Napier & Ben Napier

    From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty o...

  • Southern Living Around the Southern Table synopsis, comments

    Southern Living Around the Southern Table

    Rebecca Lang & Editors of Southern Living Magazine

    Sharing a meal around the table is the perfect expression of all things Southern: hospitality, grace, humor, and a devotion to great food. Author Rebecca Langa professionally train...

  • Locking Up Our Own synopsis, comments

    Locking Up Our Own

    James Forman, Jr.

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKSLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, ...

  • Living Dead in Dallas synopsis, comments

    Living Dead in Dallas

    Charlaine Harris

    The second novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s “addictively entertaining” (Locus) Sookie Stackhouse seriesthe inspiration for the HBO® original se...

  • Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All synopsis, comments

    Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

    Allan Gurganus

    Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninetynineyearol...

  • Turtle Moon synopsis, comments

    Turtle Moon

    Alice Hoffman

    A “captivating...truly original novel” (Cosmopolitan) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.“Ms. Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our ...

  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe synopsis, comments

    Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

    Fannie Flagg

    Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a nowclassic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gr...

  • Christmas With Southern Living synopsis, comments

    Christmas With Southern Living

    Editors of Southern Living Magazine

    Christmas with Southern Living 2012 continues its more than 30year history as the largest, most uptodate and most complete guide to the holidays available. With more than 100 allne...

  • The Witching Hour synopsis, comments

    The Witching Hour

    Anne Rice

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chroniclesthe inspiration for the hit televisi...

  • Down Where My Love Lives synopsis, comments

    Down Where My Love Lives

    Charles Martin

    Down Where My Love Lives is a bittersweet yet triumphant love storya tale of one man's journey through the darkness of despair and into the light of hope. Together in one volume, r...

  • Sing, Unburied, Sing synopsis, comments

    Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New Yor...

  • Eat to Live Quick and Easy Cookbook synopsis, comments

    Eat to Live Quick and Easy Cookbook

    Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

    Discover What Millions of People Have Already Experienced Dr. Fuhrman’s Extraordinary and LifeChanging RecipesToo busy to shop? Too tired to cook? Not sure what’s healthy? From the...

  • The Young Wives Club synopsis, comments

    The Young Wives Club

    Julie Pennell

    Southern Living’s Best New Summer Books In Toulouse, Louisiana finding your one true love happens sometime around high school. If you’re lucky, he might be the man you thought he w...

  • Mrs. Wiggins synopsis, comments

    Mrs. Wiggins

    Mary Monroe

    From the awardwinning and New York Times bestselling author of the classic, captivating, and scandalous Mama Ruby series, comes a churchgoing matriarch’s rags to riches Depression ...

  • Southern Living Annual Recipes 2012 synopsis, comments

    Southern Living Annual Recipes 2012

    Editors of Southern Living Magazine

    Published since 1979, Southern Living Annual Recipes provides every single recipe from a year's worth of Southern Living magazine in one complete volume. From large, familystyle me...

  • The Secret to Hummingbird Cake synopsis, comments

    The Secret to Hummingbird Cake

    Celeste Fletcher McHale

    Friends since kindergarten, Carrigan, Ella Rae, and Laine thought they'd been through everything together. But when cancer threatens to rip the trio apart, their world spins in a w...

  • How We Fight for Our Lives synopsis, comments

    How We Fight for Our Lives

    Saeed Jones

    From awardwinning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Liveswinner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Awardis a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book...

  • Let Us Descend synopsis, comments

    Let Us Descend

    Jesmyn Ward

    OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK Instant New York Times Bestseller Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more...

  • Shades of Blue synopsis, comments

    Shades of Blue

    Karen Kingsbury

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes an emotional story of forgiveness and healing. In between a checkered past and a fairytale future, three people must...

  • Perfect Match synopsis, comments

    Perfect Match

    Fern Michaels

    A football star goes from playmaking to matchmaking in this heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.   Confined to a wheelchair after a devastating in...