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A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.89 — 309,904 ratings — published 1980
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,958 ratings — published 2009
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,481 ratings — published 2009
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.02 — 674,163 ratings — published 1976
The Yellow House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,829 ratings — published 2019
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,693 ratings — published 2008
The Moviegoer (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.64 — 32,184 ratings — published 1961
Out of the Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.03 — 74,555 ratings — published 2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,988 ratings — published 2013
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.98 — 342,477 ratings — published 1947
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,104 ratings — published 2005
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.69 — 234,611 ratings — published 1899
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,721 ratings — published 2014
Why New Orleans Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,333 ratings — published 2005
The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.09 — 127,778 ratings — published 1990
The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.61 — 5,150 ratings — published 1999
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.80 — 723 ratings — published 2012
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,281 ratings — published 2006
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.40 — 670 ratings — published 2013
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.95 — 893 ratings — published 2001
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.69 — 12,013 ratings — published 2011
The Feast of All Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.88 — 18,851 ratings — published 1979
The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.90 — 29,476 ratings — published 1987
The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.83 — 633 ratings — published 1936
Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 — 916 ratings — published 2008
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,752 ratings — published 2009
Coming Through Slaughter (Vintage International)
by (shelved 39 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,204 ratings — published 1976
City of Refuge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,174 ratings — published 2008
Doll-baby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.95 — 16,712 ratings — published 2014
Ruined (Ruined, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,138 ratings — published 2009
The Beautiful (The Beautiful, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.64 — 40,263 ratings — published 2019
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,166 ratings — published 2010
Liquor (Rickey and G-Man #2)
by (shelved 33 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,825 ratings — published 2004
Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.00 — 424 ratings — published 1984
New Orleans Noir (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.78 — 848 ratings — published 2007
The Ballad of Perilous Graves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,273 ratings — published 2022
A Kind of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,973 ratings — published 2017
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,019 ratings — published 1997
A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,641 ratings — published 1997
The Pelican Brief (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.06 — 455,411 ratings — published 1992
Hot Blooded (New Orleans, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.01 — 18,752 ratings — published 2001
The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)
by (shelved 29 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,543 ratings — published 2007
Lasher (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.88 — 66,861 ratings — published 1993
Chasing the Devil's Tail (Storyville, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.70 — 983 ratings — published 2001
New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,851 ratings — published 1992
The Casquette Girls (The Casquette Girls, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,615 ratings — published 2013
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,306 ratings — published 2015
Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.39 — 214 ratings — published 2008
The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,529 ratings — published 2008
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,535 ratings — published 2011
“If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose”
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”
― Interview with the Vampire
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”
― Interview with the Vampire
