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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)
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)
Kline, Lisa Williams, Between the Sky and the Sea (Dragonblade Publishing, 2023)
Kline, Lisa WIlliams, Ladies’ Day (CamCat Books, 2023)
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)
Nevruz, Cori, Noxious (5310 Publishing, 2024)
Nieman, Valerie, Upon the Corner of the Moon (Regal House Publishing, 2025)
Roberts, Terry, The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape (Turner, 2024)
Rum, Etaf, Evil Eye (Harper, 2023)
South, Cris, Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses (1984, UNC Press, 2024)
Starck, Lindsay, Monsters We Have Made (Vintage, 2024)
Short Stories
Brown, Les, Iron Bridge Sunday and Other Stories (Redhawk Publications, 2023)
Dickson, David C., Down to the Root (Redhawk, 2024)
Dixon, Nathan, Radical Red (BOA Editions, 2025)
Mitchell, Steve, The Reason the Dress is Yellow (Press 53, 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)
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)
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)
Moore, Lenard, A Million Shadows at Noon (Cuttlefish Books, 2023)
Owens, Scott, An Augury of Birds (Redhawk, 2024)
Phillips, Lance, Devil-Fictions (BlazeVOX, 2023)
Pratt, Minnie Bruce, Magnified (Wesleyan University Press, 2021)
Pugatch, Ana, Engrams: Seven Years in Asia (Redhawk Publications, 2023)
Radavich, David, Here’s Plenty (Cervena Barva Press, 2023)
Ringleb, Jayme, So Tall It Ends in Heaven (Tin House, 2022)
Rouphail, Maria, All the Way to China (Fishing Line Press, 2022)
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)
Brantley, Michael K., A Southern Season: Rural Stories (Black Rose Writing, 2023)
Carden, Gary, Stories I Lived to Tell: A Memoir (UNC Press, 2024)
Domina, Lynn, editor, Approaches to Teaching Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (MLA, 2024)
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)
Kolkin, Jon, Inner Harmony: Living in Balance (teNeues, 2021)
McCown, Clint, Mr. Potato Head vs. Freud (Press 53, 2021)
Rankin, Richard, Local Signs and Wonders: Essays About Belonging to a Place (Mercer UP, 2024)
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
Revis, Beth, Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Penguin Random House, 2024)
Mystery/Thriller
Deaver, Jeffery, Hunting Time (Penguin Random House, 2024)
Kasper, Jason, Lethal Horizon (Severn River Publishing, 2024)
Miller, Suzanne Crain, Temperatures (Winding Road Stories, 2023)
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)
Lukens, F.T., Otherworldly (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2024)
Myers, Maya, Not Perfect (Neal Porter Books/Holiday House, 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)
West, Hannah Bunn, Save Our Sand Dunes (UNC Press, 2024)
Wheeler, Rebecca W., When Mama Grows With Me (Belle Isle Books, 2024)
Yero, Lauren, Under This Forgetful Sky (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2023)
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