A Guide to Fiction Set in North Carolina

Site menu:

Tags


A Note About Searching:

The "Search" box above will only search for the term(s) entered within the section you are currently viewing. If you would like to search the entire blog for a specific term, like a place or character name, click on "Home" in the far right sidebar or "Read North Carolina Novels" on the top of the page and search from there.

Links:

Archives

The Read North Carolina Novels blog is produced and maintained by the staff of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Meta

Mountains

Mountain Map

The mountains in Western North Carolina provide some of the state’s most striking scenery and are the setting for many recent popular novels, including Charles Frazier’s epic Cold Mountain. The largest city in the western part of the state is Asheville, portrayed as “Altamont” in Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel. Outside of Asheville, the mountains are dotted with small communities steeped in Appalachian culture and traditions, relics of old-fashioned small-town life, examples of which you’ll find in Joan Medlicott’s Covington, Jan Karon’s Mitford, and Ann B. Ross’s Miss Julia novels.

Check out the “Novels by Region” category in the far right sidebar or click here to see all the books in the blog that are set in the Mountains.

Write a comment