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Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 239 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,794,500 ratings — published 2018
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,690,358 ratings — published 2022
Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.07 — 110,562 ratings — published 2007
The Peach Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,590 ratings — published 2011
The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,873,775 ratings — published 1996
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,474 ratings — published 2012
The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.97 — 64,689 ratings — published 2010
The Unmaking of June Farrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.10 — 219,283 ratings — published 2023
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.89 — 252,609 ratings — published 1997
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.31 — 87,816 ratings — published 2013
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,420 ratings — published 2008
The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.77 — 39,317 ratings — published 2017
First Frost (Waverley Family, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.98 — 39,967 ratings — published 2015
The Heiress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.83 — 189,683 ratings — published 2024
Safe Haven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.22 — 407,097 ratings — published 2010
The Sugar Queen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.99 — 58,161 ratings — published 2008
The Silent Sister (Riley MacPherson, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.00 — 98,135 ratings — published 2014
Big Lies in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.14 — 109,594 ratings — published 2020
Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,409 ratings — published 2012
The Last Ballad (ebook)
by (shelved 33 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,735 ratings — published 2017
By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1)
by (shelved 32 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,441 ratings — published 2015
Bootlegger's Daughter (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,733 ratings — published 1992
At Home in Mitford (Mitford Years, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.13 — 72,331 ratings — published 1994
Look Homeward, Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,098 ratings — published 1929
A Good Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.81 — 59,587 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,498 ratings — published 2020
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.06 — 459,740 ratings — published 2016
Stella by Starlight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.09 — 15,742 ratings — published 2015
The Lucky One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.13 — 378,741 ratings — published 2008
The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.02 — 126,474 ratings — published 2020
Summer Rental (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,635 ratings — published 2011
The Tobacco Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.82 — 28,762 ratings — published 2022
The Last House on the Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,171 ratings — published 2022
The Twisted Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.62 — 52,035 ratings — published 2019
Serafina and the Black Cloak (Serafina, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.94 — 37,789 ratings — published 2015
The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
by (shelved 26 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.26 — 231,766 ratings — published 2001
Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
by (shelved 26 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.36 — 274,979 ratings — published 1996
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,436 ratings — published 2020
All the Missing Girls (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.69 — 253,599 ratings — published 2016
Joyland (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.92 — 187,470 ratings — published 2013
The Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,710 ratings — published 2012
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.20 — 855,372 ratings — published 1999
This Dark Road to Mercy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,941 ratings — published 2014
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.66 — 76,029 ratings — published 2023
The Last Child (Johnny Merrimon, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,138 ratings — published 2009
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.01 — 730,461 ratings — published 2000
Nights in Rodanthe (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.85 — 184,801 ratings — published 2002
When Ghosts Come Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.67 — 8,543 ratings — published 2021
The Weekenders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 3.76 — 41,641 ratings — published 2016
Dear John (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as north-carolina)
avg rating 4.04 — 624,346 ratings — published 2006
“Baby Harper and I were having dinner together, as we had done every Saturday night for close to a year by then. We went into Shelby and sat in our usual booth at Bridges Barbecue Lodge. We each ordered a pulled pork sandwich, a side of coleslaw, fries with an extra order of barbecue sauce for dipping, peach cobbler (only available on Saturdays), and a bottle of Cheerwine, a cherry-flavored cola, bottled in nearby Salisbury, which my great-uncle said brought out the "fruit" in Bridges's sauce. Bridges Barbecue Lodge had two things going for it, which was more than I could say for the other dining options in town, Pizza Inn, Waffle House, Arby's, Roy Rogers, and Hardee's. In the mid-eighties the greater Boiling Springs-Shelby area attracted only the B-list fast-food chains. Bridges was in a league of its own. The first thing that made Bridges special was that, even by the standards of North Carolina barbecue, Bridges's sauce was extraordinarily vinegary, which meant it was extraordinarily good.”
― Bitter in the Mouth
― Bitter in the Mouth
“Scotland's contribution to American balladry is a subject which was either glossed over or neglected entirely by Cecil Sharp, the English folklorist and ballad collector, when he came over to the United States in search of traditional song poetry. Over here we are indebted to Sharp and to Miss Maud Karpeles for exploring the back country and helping us find what we had. Their visits were fruitful and their English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians is an exemplary work. But it is regrettable that a Scottish folklorist, familiar and in tune with Lowland traditions, was not close at hand to make a few claims of his own.
Somebody needed to suggest that Scotland had as good a claim to half the British ballads Sharp collected in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina as England has. Somebody might have suggested that English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians is a misleading title - that British Folk Songs would have been more accurate. For, after all, the most authoritative editor in the business, Francis J. Child, had clearly recognised two national traditions in his monumental English and Scottish Popular Ballads, which is the keystone work on which all subsequent studies have been based.”
― Saltire Review 20, Spring 1960
Somebody needed to suggest that Scotland had as good a claim to half the British ballads Sharp collected in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina as England has. Somebody might have suggested that English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians is a misleading title - that British Folk Songs would have been more accurate. For, after all, the most authoritative editor in the business, Francis J. Child, had clearly recognised two national traditions in his monumental English and Scottish Popular Ballads, which is the keystone work on which all subsequent studies have been based.”
― Saltire Review 20, Spring 1960
