Dismal? The Great Dismal Swamp Canal, by Ben Casey, River Harmony Publishing, Morehead City, NC, 2008

The Natural History of the Great Dismal Swamp, edited by Robert K. Rose, ODU, Norfolk, VA, produced by Suffolk-Nansemond Chapter, Izaak Walton League of America, Inc., Suffolk, VA, 2000

The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company, a Story of George Washington's Times, by Charles Royster, Alfred A. Knoph, New York, NY, 1999

The Great Dismal, A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir, by Bland Simpson, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1990

Into the Sound Country, A Carolinian's Coastal Plain, by Bland Simpson, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1997

Touring the Backroads of North Carolina's Upper Coast, by Daniel W. Barefoot, John F. Blair Publisher, Winston-Salem, NC, 1995

Islands, Capes, and Sounds, The North Carolina Coast, by Thomas J. Schoenbaum, John F. Blair Publisher, Winston-Salem, NC, 1998

NOVELS

The Weirdo, by Theodore Taylor, Avon Books, New York, NY, 1991

Hannah, by Suzanne Ellison, Harper Paperbacks, New York, NY, 1992