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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 — 303,953 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 — 661,418 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 — 31,525 ratings — published 1961
Out of the Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.03 — 73,294 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 — 42,030 ratings — published 2013
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,887 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 — 231,196 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 — 126,169 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 — 29,019 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 — 3,739 ratings — published 2009
Coming Through Slaughter (Vintage International)
by (shelved 38 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,089 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 — 39,868 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 — 18,395 ratings — published 2001
The Pelican Brief (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.06 — 450,790 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 — 66,284 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 — 75,096 ratings — published 2011
“So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.”
― The Story of a Bad Boy
― The Story of a Bad Boy
“The millions of vacationers who came here every year before Katrina were mostly unaware of this poverty. French Quarter tourists were rarely exposed to the reality beneath the Disneyland Gomorrah that is projected as 'N'Awlins,' a phrasing I have never heard a local use and a place, as far as I can tell, that I have never encountered despite my years in the city. The seemingly average, white, middle-class Americans whooped it up on Bourbon Street without any thought of the third-world lives of so many of the city's citizens that existed under their noses. The husband and wife, clad in khaki shorts, feather boa, and Mardi Gras beads well out of season, beheld a child tap-dancing on the street for money and clapped along to his beat without considering the obvious fact that this was an early school-day afternoon and that the child should be learning to read, not dancing for money. Somehow they did not see their own child beneath the dancer's black visage. Nor, perhaps, did they see the crumbling buildings where the city's poor live as they traveled by cab from the French Quarter to Commander's Palace. They were on vacation and this was not their problem. ”
― Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
― Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
