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A group featuring the favorite books of New Orleanians or NOLA ex-pats. Of course, books about the area and by local authors are emphasized and encouraged.

Category: Book Clubs by City | New Orleans, Louisiana | Started June 2007

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1 dead in attic

by Chris Rose

The Devil You Know

by Poppy Z. Brite

Dictionary of Louisiana Creole

French Quarter

by Herbert Asbury

In Search Of Buddy Bolden: First Man Of Jazz

by Donald M. Marquis

The Soul of New Orleans: A Legacy of Rhythm and Blues

by Jeff Hannusch

New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album

by al Rose

Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Nortorious Red Light District

by Al Rose

The Sound of Building Coffins

by Louis Maistros

The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks

by Donald Harington

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

by Douglas Brinkley

Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

by Lafcadio Hearn

Frenchmen Desire Good Children And Other Streets Of New Orleans

by John Churchill Chase

Sportin' House A History of the New Orleans Sinners and the Birth of Jazz

by Longstreet Stephen

I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues

by Jeff Hannusch

Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper

by John

Unorganized Crime: New Orleans in the 1920s

by Louis Andrew Vyhnanek

Unveiled: How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love, and Obedience in the Middle East

by Deborah Kanafani

Creole Cookery

Memories Of A Golden Age

by Joanne Amort

Sunset Limited (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

by James Lee Burke

Recettes Preferees De LA Nouvelle Orleans

by Suzanne Ormond, Denyse Cantin, Mary E. Irvine

Oak Alley Plantation Cooking

by Oak Alley Plantation Restaurant and Inn

PLANTATION COUNTRY Along the Mississippi River In Louisiana & Mississippi

by Bobby Potts

Journey Into Darkness...Ghosts & Vampires of New Orleans

by Kalila Katherina Smith

Walking Tours of Old New Orleans

by Stanley Clisby Arthur

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book Two: City of Night

by Dean Koontz

Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 1)

by Dean Koontz

The Awakening

by John Collier, Kate Chopin, Maureen Kelly, Nancy A. Walker

The Tryst Tale

by Duane Romana

The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story

by Julia Reed

Louisiana in Words

Holding Out and Hanging on: Surviving Hurricane Katrina

by Thomas Neff

White Doves at Morning: A Novel

by James Lee Burke

Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness De Pontalba

by Christina Vella

Hurricane Katrina the One We Feared 08/29/2005

Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans

by David Fulmer

Les Recettes Du Petit Dejeuner - Breakfast Recipes : A Breakfast Cookbook from the Chefs of la Madeleine

by La Madeline

Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans

by Jed Horne

What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation

by The South End Press Collective

New Orleans Then and Now (Then & Now)

by Lester Sullivan

Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)

by James Lee Burke

Dixie City Jam

by James Lee Burke

Black Cherry Blues

by James Lee Burke

The Court of Two Sisters Cookbook: With a History of the French Quarter and the Restaurant by Mel Leavitt

by Mel Leavitt

Emeril's New New Orleans

by Emeril Lagasse

Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America

by Gail Feigenbaum

New Orleans Architecture Vol III: The Cemeteries

by Leonard V. Huber

The Joy of Y'at Catholicism

by Earl J. Higgins

Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow

by Dedra Johnson

New Orleans: The Canal Streetcar Line (LA) (Images of America)

by Edward J. Branley

Gumbo Ya-Ya: a Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales

by Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer

Women and New Orleans

by Mary Gehman

Big Muddy River of Stars (Akron Series in Poetry)

by Alison Pelegrin

PoBoy: A Nettie Dunbar Mystery

by Alice McDaniel

F.H.M. Murray: First Biography of a Forgotten Pioneer for Civil Justice

by Anita Hackley-Lambert, Gaelyn Whitley Keith

A Hunger Like No Other

by Kresley Cole

Unleash the Night

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Seize The Night

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Night Play

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld

by Chris Wiltz

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

Night Pleasures

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Night Embrace

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fantasy Lover

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Blood Red

by Heather Graham

Kiss Of Darkness

by Heather Graham

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories

by John Biguenet

Oyster : A Novel

by John Biguenet

Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans (2nd Edition, Expanded)

by Andrei Codrescu, Kerri McCaffety

Interview With the Vampire

by Anne Rice

The Pelican Brief

by John Grisham

If Angels Burn

by Lynn Viehl

New Orleans Noir (Akashic Noir)