Four bestselling authors, one big night for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. The tickets are gone. The books aren't, so read up before the night or read along from home.
Read the lineup ↓Each author's newest book. Tap a cover to buy it from an indie bookstore.
A year on Johnny Appleseed's trail from Massachusetts to Indiana: mostly walking, sometimes driving, once floating downstream, and reckoning with loss and grief along the way. From the author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts.
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Miss Marple is back. A luxury hotel high in the Swiss Alps, a body, and a blizzard that cuts off every escape. Written with the Agatha Christie estate by the author of The Guest List.
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College student Lily Chen signs up for a grueling language immersion program, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood. The new one from the author of Babel and Yellowface.
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A dying gangster's plea sends Joe King Oliver after a missing woman, coast to coast, and into a dark and violent family history. The latest in Mosley's King Oliver series.
Buy NowGot a ticket or not, here's the plan.
Verse & Vino, presented by PNC, is the Library Foundation's signature annual fundraiser. For more than a decade, it's been a night of readers and bestselling authors in support of the Library.
Same four books, read on your couch. Pick one, or give the whole stack. Not sure which? A gift card lets them choose.
Event details from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation. Updated October 20, 2026.
Isaac Fitzgerald (American Rambler), Lucy Foley (Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel), R. F. Kuang (Taipei Story), and Walter Mosley (Hanging and Burning).
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 6:00 to 9:30 pm at the Charlotte Convention Center.
No. The Library Foundation lists the event as sold out. You can still read all four.
EpicFest is the Library's free children's book festival at ImaginOn on Saturday, November 7. See our EpicFest 2026 reading list, or browse the whole bookstore.