Books Set in North Carolina

Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club

By: Delia Owens
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

“I LOVED this book! I really like surprise endings. I was totally shocked by the ending. I loved how very beautiful the main characters love story was brought to life. Read more

The Fiery Cross

Outlander (Gabaldon): Book #5

By: Diana Gabaldon
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 55 hours 30 minutes

Diana Gabaldon is the New York Times bestselling author of Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn. A masterful novel of passion and a love spanning centuries, The Fiery Cross is the highly anticipated, triumphant continuation of the phenomenally popular Outlander series.

Eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his... Read more

Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier
Narrated by: Charles Frazier
Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at... Read more

A Good Neighborhood

A Novel

By: Therese Anne Fowler
Narrated by: Ella Turenne
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“This moving story, expertly narrated by Adenrele Ojo, is told from the points of view of several main characters, and intermittently by omnipotent unnamed neighbors, after a new family moves into a “good” North Carolina neighborhood. Conflicts arise over the health of an ailing oak tree and a budding romance between two star-crossed teens.... Read more

A Land More Kind Than Home

By: Wiley Cash
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan, Lorna Raver & Mark Bramhall
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

“Bold, daring, graceful, and engrossing.”
—Bobbie Ann Mason“This book will knock your socks off….A first novel that sings with talent.”
—Clyde EdgertonIn his phenomenal debut novel—a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town—author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent... Read more

The Sugar Queen

By: Sarah Addison Allen
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever.

Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season,... Read more

Book Lovers

By: Emily Henry
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

“Book Lovers by Emily Henry is a top notch romance novel! It was a fun listen- slow burn, miscommunication, light family drama, possible but unlikely situations, and all the happy endings we want and expect! I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the characters and settings in this story. It took me away from my life and into Nora Stevens life!... Read more

The Notebook

By: Nicholas Sparks
Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

The unforgettable, heartbreaking love story from a New York Times bestselling author about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart—now an iconic motion picture starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.

At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than... Read more

Under a Gilded Moon

A Novel

By: Joy Jordan-Lake
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

“Crawdads meets the Crawleys…Threaded through with a meticulously researched, well-crafted mystery, this is historical fiction at its best.” —Fiona Davis, nationally bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth AvenueFrom the bestselling author of A Tangled Mercy comes an enthralling novel of secrets, a tumultuous war of ideas, and murder as classes... Read more

Necessary Lies

A Novel

By: Diane Chamberlain
Narrated by: Alison Elliott
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town fifty years ago, and the darkest—and most hopeful—places in the human heart

After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her... Read more

Big Lies in a Small Town

A Novel

By: Diane Chamberlain
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

“The book opens in 2018 introducing you to one of its main characters, Morgan, who is an inmate of the North Carolina Correctional Facility. She is barely 21 years old and is incarcerated for a DUI - a crime that she didn't commit. During her second summer in prison, Morgan is offered an opportunity of a lifetime. Two women visit her and offer... Read more

Serena

By: Ron Rash
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in North Carolina to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her... Read more

Guests on Earth

By: Lee Smith
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

When she is thirteen years old, Evalina Toussaint, the orphaned child of an exotic dancer in New Orleans, is admitted as a mental patient to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. The year is 1936, and the hospital, under the direction of celebrity psychiatrist Robert S. Carroll, is famous for its up-to-the-minute shock therapies and... Read more

Serafina and the Black Cloak

Serafina: Book #1

By: Robert Beatty
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul."

Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of Biltmore Estate. There's plenty to explore in her grand home, but she must take care to never be seen. None of the rich folk upstairs know that... Read more

Keeping the Moon

By: Sarah Dessen
Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Never underestimate the power of friendship.
 
When Colie goes to spend the summer at the beach, she doesn’t expect much.
 
But Colie didn’t count on meeting Morgan and Isabel.
 
Through them, she learns what true friendship is all about, and finally starts to realize her potential.
 
And that just might open the door to her first chance at love. . .... Read more

Look Homeward, Angel

By: Thomas Wolfe
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 26 hours 20 minutes

The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink. "... rich and ambitious and intensely... Read more

The Last Castle

The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

By: Denise Kiernan
Narrated by: Denise Kiernan
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore—the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States.Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York’s best known families. She grew up in... Read more

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Jacobs
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North. One of the few slave... Read more