This is my favorite.
Full Disclosure: I worked at Highlands's a couple of summers while I was in college and still try eat there once a month.
Frank Stitt is a James Beard award winner, and is usually consider one of the founders of New Southern cooking. He takes traditional southern ingredients and cooks them in a classic french style. Very interesting guy, and the book is enjoyable to read outside of the great recipes
Frank Stitt's Southern Table