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Book authors, if your book is not on this list (and has not been previously reviewed in NCLR), a review may be in progress. But just in case, if the author or book has a North Carolina connection, please fill out the form on the right to have it added to this list. NOTE: no self-published / vanity press books, please.
Novels
Allran, Austin, The Legend of the Isle of Cats (Redhawk Publications, 2022)
Baker, Peter C., Planes (Knopf, 2022)
Barnhardt, Wilton, Western Alliances (St. Martin’s Press, 2023)
Bauer, John A., All The Bay’s Clams and All The Bay’s Men (Lysestrah, 2020)
Buck, Libby, Port Anna (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Cody, Michael Amos, Streets of Nashville (Madville Publishing, 2025)
Crawford, Katherine Scott, The Miniaturist’s Assistant (Regal House Publishing, 2025)
Ewing, Paige, Explosive Chemistry (City Owl Books, 2023)
Gulledge, Jim, Green Forest, Red Earth, Blue Sea (Koehler, Books, 2024)
Harris, Terah Shelton, Long After We Are Gone (SOURCEBOOKS Landmark, 2024)
Hudson, Patricia L., Traces (UP of KY, 2022)
Livesey, Margot, The Road from Belhaven (Knopf, 2024)
Maren, Mesha, Perpetual West (Algonquin, 2022)
Maren, Mesha, Shae (Algonquin, 2024)
Moose, Ruth, The Goings on at Glen Arbor Acres (St. Andrews University Press, 2022)
Nell, Joslin, Measure of Devotion (Regal House Publishing, 2025)
Nevruz, Cori, Noxious (5310 Publishing, 2024)
Rhea, John, Lifer (Redhawk Publications, 2025)
Rum, Etaf, Evil Eye (Harper, 2023)
Sefrin, Eliot, Port City (Pisgah Press, 2025)
South, Cris, Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses (1984, UNC Press, 2024)
Short Stories
Dickson, David C., Down to the Root (Redhawk Publications, 2024)
Dixon, Nathan, Radical Red (BOA Editions, 2025)
Nelson, Christopher L., Where You Are From (Redhawk Publications, 2025)
Oliver, Diane, Neighbors and Other Stories (Grove Atlantic, 2024)
Polf, W.A., Not the Same River (Atmosphere Press, 2024)
Poetry
Note that we would love it if you find more than one collection that you feel would work well to review together (if you later determine they don’t, you can write 2 separate reviews).
Abbate, Chris, Words for Flying (FutureCycle Press, 2022)
Bates, Jenny, Where the Deer Sleep (Hermit Feathers Press, 2022)
Bikulege, Vivian, How to Pray in Pittsburgh (Charlotte Lit Press, 2024)
Brown, Joyce, Hard-Packed Clay (Redhawk Publications, 2022)
Brown, Les, Cold Forge (Redhawk Publications, 2022)
Copeland, Beth, Shibori Blue: Thirty-Views of The Peak (Redhawk Publications, 2024)
Cushman, Steve, The Last Time (Unicorn Press, 2023)
Emerson, Claudia, Ungrafted (LSU Press, 2024)
Ferdon, Joel, The Arsonist’s Son (Louisiana Lit Press, 2024)
Gaspeny, Michael, Flight Manual: New and Collected Poems (Unicorn, 2023)
Gow, Robin, Laternfly August (Driftwood Press)
Hoppenthaler, John, Night Wing Over Metropolitan Area (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2023)
Jones, Paul, Something Necessary (Redhawk Publications, 2024)
Kaufman, Britt, Midlife Calculus (Press 53, 2024)
Kaufman, Debra God Shattered (Jacar Press, 2019)
McIlvoy, Kevin Singing Lessons (Press 53, 2024)
Meads, Kat, While Visiting Babette (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2025)
Moore, Lenard, A Million Shadows at Noon (Cuttlefish Books, 2023)
Moore, Lenard, LeJuane “El’Ja” Bowens, and Shannon C. Ward, Eds., A Path to Freedom: A North Carolina Anthology in Honor of Military Veterans (Longleaf Press, 2024)
Owens, Scott, An Augury of Birds (Redhawk, 2024)
Phillips, Lance, Devil-Fictions (BlazeVOX, 2023)
Presnell, Barbara, Otherwise, I’m Fine: A Memoir, (University of South Carolina Press, 2025)
Pugatch, Ana, Engrams: Seven Years in Asia (Redhawk Publications, 2023)
Radavich, David, Here’s Plenty (Cervena Barva Press, 2023)
Rigsbee, David, Paradiso (translation) (Salmon Poetry, 2019)
Rigsbee, David, Watchman in the Knife Factory: New & Selected Poems (Black Lawrence Press, 2024)
Ringleb, Jayme, So Tall It Ends in Heaven (Tin House, 2022)
Rouphail, Maria, All the Way to China (Fishing Line Press, 2022)
Rouphail, Maria, This small house, this big sky (Redhawk Publications, 2025)
VanderHart, Han, Larks: Poems (Ohio University Press, 2025)
VanderHart, Han, What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021)
Way, Maura, Mummery (Press 53, 2023)
White, Ross, Charm Offensive (Black Spring Press, 2023)
Wickless, Bob, The Secret Care the World Takes (Orchard Street Press, 2023)
Wolff-Francis, Liza, 48 Hours Down the Shore (Kelsay, 2024)
York, John Thomas, The Charge (Redhawk Publication, 2024)
Nonfiction
Berry, Chris Aluka, Affrilachia: Testimonies (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
Carden, Gary, Stories I Lived to Tell: A Memoir (UNC Press, 2024)
Corren, Andy, Dirtbag Queen (Grand Central Publishing, 2025)
Gessner, David, The Book of Flaco: The World’s Most Famous Bird (Blair, 2025)
Hitchcock, Shannon, Of Words and Water: The Story of Wilma Dykeman—Writer, Historian, Environmentalist (Reycraft, 2024)
Holsaert, Faith S., Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family (Wayne State UP, 2024)
Laux, Dorianne, Finger Exercises for Poets (W.W. Norton & Company,
McCown, Clint, Mr. Potato Head vs. Freud (Press 53, 2021)
McKechnie, Shelley, ed., Stronger than the Storm: Hurricane Helene in Western NC (Haw Creek
Press, 2025)
Simpson, Bland, Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir (UNC Press, 2024)
Smith, Stephen E., The Year We Danced: a Memoir (Apprentice House, 2024)
Speculative Fiction
TBA
Mystery/Thriller
Chafin, Jill Amber, Shaken (Vine Leaves Press, 2025)
Deaver, Jeffery, Hunting Time (Penguin Random House, 2024)
Kasper, Jason, Lethal Horizon (Severn River Publishing, 2024)
Miller, Suzanne Crain, Temperatures (Winding Road Stories, 2023)
Newman, Christopher J., By Way of Paris (Roundfire Books, 2024)
Sirois, A.L., Murder in Mennefer (Regal House Publishing, 2024)
Slocumb, Brendan, Symphony of Secrets (Anchor Books, 2023)
Children’s and YA Literature
Beatty, Robert, Sylvia Doe and the 100-year Flood (Disney Hyperion, 2024)
Brantley-Newton, Vanessa, Becoming Vanessa (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2021)
Carpenter, Nora Shalaway, Fault Lines (Running Press Kids, 2023)
Harris, Tevis, When Things Pass Away (Bookbaby, 2025)
Heyes, Eileen, Bountiful Red Acres (NC Office of Archives and History, 2023)
Liu, Jennie, The Red Car to Hollywood (Carolrhoda Lab, 2025)
Myers, Maya, Not Perfect (Neal Porter Books/Holiday House, 2024)
Palmer, Caroline, Camp Prodigy, (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Rathbone, Sandra, Skelee Boy and the Demon King, Book 2 of the Skelee Boy: A Skelee Boy Book Series (Level Elevate, 2024)
Specht, Amie D., Dancing in the Storm (Penguin Random House, 2024)
Standish, Ali, The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall (Harper Collins, 2023)
Theodore, Adrea, A History of Me (Neal Porter Books, 2022)
Vacharat, A. A., This Moth Saw Brightness (Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2025)
Wheeler, Rebecca W., When Mama Grows With Me (Belle Isle Books, 2024)
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