24 books
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11 voters
New Orleans Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,788
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.89 — 294,981 ratings — published 1980
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,925 ratings — published 2009
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,265 ratings — published 2009
The Yellow House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,207 ratings — published 2019
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.02 — 642,071 ratings — published 1976
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,614 ratings — published 2008
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,304 ratings — published 2013
The Moviegoer (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.64 — 30,584 ratings — published 1961
Out of the Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.03 — 71,021 ratings — published 2013
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.98 — 331,838 ratings — published 1947
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,990 ratings — published 2005
Why New Orleans Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,310 ratings — published 2005
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,526 ratings — published 2014
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.69 — 224,991 ratings — published 1899
The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.10 — 123,551 ratings — published 1990
The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,874 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 — 3,141 ratings — published 2006
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.80 — 673 ratings — published 2012
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.41 — 647 ratings — published 2013
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,588 ratings — published 2011
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.95 — 868 ratings — published 2001
The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.90 — 28,020 ratings — published 1987
The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.83 — 611 ratings — published 1936
Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.95 — 909 ratings — published 2008
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,717 ratings — published 2009
The Feast of All Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.88 — 18,624 ratings — published 1979
Coming Through Slaughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,917 ratings — published 1976
City of Refuge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,146 ratings — published 2008
Ruined (Ruined, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,003 ratings — published 2009
Liquor (Rickey and G-Man #2)
by (shelved 33 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,787 ratings — published 2004
A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,568 ratings — published 1997
A Kind of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,872 ratings — published 2017
Doll-baby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.95 — 16,183 ratings — published 2014
New Orleans Noir (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.76 — 811 ratings — published 2007
The Beautiful (The Beautiful, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.65 — 39,185 ratings — published 2019
The Ballad of Perilous Graves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.56 — 3,012 ratings — published 2022
Hot Blooded (New Orleans, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,885 ratings — published 2001
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,013 ratings — published 2010
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,801 ratings — published 1997
Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.00 — 421 ratings — published 1984
The Pelican Brief (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.06 — 445,300 ratings — published 1992
Lasher (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.88 — 65,330 ratings — published 1993
The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,203 ratings — published 2007
New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,799 ratings — published 1992
The Casquette Girls (The Casquette Girls, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,464 ratings — published 2013
Chasing the Devil's Tail (Storyville, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.70 — 942 ratings — published 2001
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,131 ratings — published 2015
The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,480 ratings — published 2008
Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.40 — 209 ratings — published 2008
Letters from New Orleans (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.93 — 246 ratings — published 2005
“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
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“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces












