Florida


Their Eyes Were Watching God
Swamplandia!
The Nickel Boys
Florida
A Land Remembered
Hoot
Skinny Dip (Skink, #5; Mick Stranahan #2)
Paper Towns
Bad Monkey (Andrew Yancy, #1)
Nature Girl
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Tourist Season
The Orchid Thief
Stormy Weather (Skink #3)
Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Best Southern Literature
1,410 books — 2,699 voters
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsPaper Towns by John  GreenStarring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy BlumeThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
YA Set In Florida
230 books — 37 voters

Stormy Weather by Carl HiaasenTo Have and Have Not by Ernest HemingwayFlashback by Nevada BarrAn Appetite for Murder by Lucy BurdetteSkinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
Key West
91 books — 30 voters
Prey of Desire by J.C. GatlinThe Rutland Mule Matter by Richard Lee CroninThe Glass Rainbow by James Lee BurkeCreole Belle by James Lee BurkePegasus Descending by James Lee Burke
Mysteries in The Bayou
20 books — 13 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloA Land Remembered by Patrick D. SmithThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsSwamplandia! by Karen Russell
Best Books Set in or About Florida
844 books — 365 voters
Starters by Lissa PriceThe Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenUnwind by Neal ShustermanThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherNorth of Beautiful by Justina Chen
Florida Teen Reads
100 books — 13 voters

Laura van den Berg
How did we wind up here, shipwrecked at my mother's house? In Florida, this is a question I ask myself every day. ...more
Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise

Damon  Thomas
A newly single friend discovered the Internet. Spent much of the 90s planning double dates. I was a regular plus-one. He would have a different date each night. Mine was always the same. A friend that lived on the way to town. We wouldn't call ahead. Just head over to her place. She'd put on glitter lip gloss and be ready to go. We went on over 20 dates this way. Nights in the backseat sharing Taco Bell. Years pass. She has a question – "With all those dates... were we... dating?" We decide that ...more
Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

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