Reading the States: Louisiana

State: LOUISIANA

Fiction:
- A Confederacy of Dunces* by John Kennedy Toole
- The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood* by Rebecca Wells
- A Streetcar Named Desire* by Tennesee Williams
- A Lesson Before Dying* by Ernest J. Gaines
- The Awakening* by Kate Chopin
- Interview with the Vampire* by Anne Rice
- All the King's Men* by Robert Penn Warren
- Property by Valerie Martin
- No Place, Louisiana by Martin Pousson
- Cane River by Lalita Tademy
- Bad Moon Rising by Katherine Sutcliffe
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
- Out of the Easy* by Ruta Sepetys 
- The Vanishing Half* by Brit Bennett

Nonfiction:
- Zeitoun* by Dave Eggers
- The Earl of Louisiana by A. J. Liebling
- Mardi-Gras... As It Was by Robert Tallant
- Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans
by James Gill
- Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell
- 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose
- Managing Ignatius by Jerry Strahan
- Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean

- Mardi Gras ...As It Was by Robert Tallant
- Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans* by Dan Baum
- Five Days at Memorial* by Sheri Fink
 

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:

- Anne Rice
- James Lee Burke
- Ernest J. Gaines
- Truman Capote
- Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse series)

Authors Who Lived Here:

- Rebecca Wells
- Tim Gautreaux
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Elmore Leonard
- Bret Lott

Great Bookstores:
Octavia Books
Garden District Book Shop
Faulkner House Books*

Literary Places to Visit: 
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*Books I've Read

Photo by moi.