Books set primarily in North or South Carolina

The Foursome

A Novel

by Christina Baker Kline

Hardcover: May 2026

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline's own distant relatives — who married world-...

The Demon of Unrest

A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

by Erik Larson

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2026

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in ...

Happy Land

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family's ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.

The Message

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hardcover: Oct 2024

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don't—shape our realities.

The Caretaker

A Novel

by Ron Rash

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Jul 2024

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today" —The New York Times) is a breathtaking love ...

Long After We Are Gone

A Novel

by Terah Shelton Harris

Hardcover: May 2024

An explosive and emotional story of four siblings―each fighting their own personal battle―who return home in the wake of their father's death in order to save their family's home from being sold out from under them, from the author of One...

Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves

by J Drew Lanham

Hardcover: Apr 2024

From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose.

Wastelands

The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

by Corban Addison

Hardcover: Jun 2022 | Paperback: Sep 2023

As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America's farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight.

When These Mountains Burn

by David Joy

Hardcover: Aug 2020 | Paperback: Jul 2023

Acclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (the Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them.

Black Cloud Rising

by David Wright Falade

Hardcover: Feb 2022 | Paperback: Feb 2023

Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom.

The Last House on the Street

A Novel

by Diane Chamberlain

Hardcover: Jan 2022 | Paperback: Jan 2023

A community's past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's The Last House on the Street when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery.

Carolina Moonset

by Matt Goldman

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: May 2022

Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award–winning author, Matt ...