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New Orleans Books
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.89 — 303,955 ratings — published 1980
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,543 ratings — published 2009
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,424 ratings — published 2009
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.02 — 661,426 ratings — published 1976
The Yellow House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,633 ratings — published 2019
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,665 ratings — published 2008
The Moviegoer (Vintage International)
by (shelved 98 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.64 — 31,527 ratings — published 1961
Out of the Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.03 — 73,295 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 — 42,031 ratings — published 2013
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,888 ratings — published 1947
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,064 ratings — published 2005
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,659 ratings — published 2014
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.69 — 231,197 ratings — published 1899
Why New Orleans Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,326 ratings — published 2005
The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.10 — 126,170 ratings — published 1990
The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.61 — 5,042 ratings — published 1999
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,236 ratings — published 2006
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.40 — 667 ratings — published 2013
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.80 — 705 ratings — published 2012
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.95 — 883 ratings — published 2001
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,877 ratings — published 2011
The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.90 — 29,020 ratings — published 1987
The Feast of All Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.88 — 18,769 ratings — published 1979
Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 — 914 ratings — published 2008
The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.83 — 627 ratings — published 1936
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,740 ratings — published 2009
Coming Through Slaughter (Vintage International)
by (shelved 38 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,090 ratings — published 1976
City of Refuge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,161 ratings — published 2008
Doll-baby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.95 — 16,506 ratings — published 2014
Ruined (Ruined, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,093 ratings — published 2009
The Beautiful (The Beautiful, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.64 — 39,869 ratings — published 2019
Liquor (Rickey and G-Man #2)
by (shelved 33 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,808 ratings — published 2004
The Ballad of Perilous Graves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,193 ratings — published 2022
A Kind of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,938 ratings — published 2017
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,118 ratings — published 2010
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 — 5,941 ratings — published 1997
A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,613 ratings — published 1997
Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.00 — 424 ratings — published 1984
New Orleans Noir (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.78 — 837 ratings — published 2007
Hot Blooded (New Orleans, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.01 — 18,396 ratings — published 2001
The Pelican Brief (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.06 — 450,792 ratings — published 1992
The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)
by (shelved 29 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,372 ratings — published 2007
Lasher (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.88 — 66,285 ratings — published 1993
New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,831 ratings — published 1992
The Casquette Girls (The Casquette Girls, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,565 ratings — published 2013
Chasing the Devil's Tail (Storyville, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.70 — 974 ratings — published 2001
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,255 ratings — published 2015
Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.41 — 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 — 1,514 ratings — published 2008
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,099 ratings — published 2011
“Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.”
― Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
― Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
“All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.”
― Death in the Woods and Other Stories
― Death in the Woods and Other Stories
