North Carolina Mountain Books

6 Modern Mountain Reads

Sure, you’ve read the masterpieces that put western North Carolina on the literary map — Cold Mountain; Look Homeward, Angel — but make room on your bookshelf for some newer recommendations from mountain booksellers.

The Tobacco Wives

A girl finds her passion creating beautiful garments for elite local women. But in this fictional postwar tobacco town, the most glamorous echelon of society is not what it seems.