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A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.89 � 289,115 ratings � published 1980
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.05 � 79,387 ratings � published 2009
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.23 � 5,132 ratings � published 2009
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.02 � 627,648 ratings � published 1976
The Yellow House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.89 � 24,853 ratings � published 2019
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.01 � 1,561 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 � 38,541 ratings � published 2013
Out of the Easy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.04 � 69,111 ratings � published 2013
The Moviegoer (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.65 � 29,955 ratings � published 1961
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.98 � 326,085 ratings � published 1947
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.11 � 3,871 ratings � published 2005
Why New Orleans Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 � 1,297 ratings � published 2005
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.68 � 220,418 ratings � published 1899
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.73 � 4,433 ratings � published 2014
The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.10 � 122,007 ratings � published 1990
The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.60 � 4,740 ratings � published 1999
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.17 � 3,027 ratings � published 2006
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.41 � 637 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 � 11,323 ratings � published 2011
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 � 855 ratings � published 2001
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.79 � 651 ratings � published 2012
Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.96 � 901 ratings � published 2008
The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.91 � 27,342 ratings � published 1987
The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.84 � 606 ratings � published 1936
The Feast of All Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.88 � 18,532 ratings � published 1979
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.83 � 3,667 ratings � published 2009
City of Refuge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.04 � 1,135 ratings � published 2008
Coming Through Slaughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.87 � 6,822 ratings � published 1976
Ruined (Ruined, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.84 � 13,938 ratings � published 2009
Liquor (Rickey and G-Man #2)
by (shelved 33 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.94 � 2,765 ratings � published 2004
A Kind of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.79 � 5,808 ratings � published 2017
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.02 � 6,922 ratings � published 2010
A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.98 � 3,522 ratings � published 1997
The Beautiful (The Beautiful, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.65 � 38,404 ratings � published 2019
Hot Blooded (New Orleans, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.01 � 17,267 ratings � published 2001
New Orleans Noir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.76 � 791 ratings � published 2007
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.22 � 5,718 ratings � published 1997
The Ballad of Perilous Graves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.57 � 2,867 ratings � published 2022
New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.70 � 3,753 ratings � published 1992
Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.99 � 416 ratings � published 1984
The Casquette Girls (The Casquette Girls, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.16 � 4,389 ratings � published 2013
The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.47 � 1,447 ratings � published 2008
The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)
by (shelved 28 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.19 � 15,045 ratings � published 2007
The Pelican Brief (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.06 � 440,461 ratings � published 1992
Lasher (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.88 � 64,582 ratings � published 1993
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)
by (shelved 26 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.04 � 9,042 ratings � published 2015
Chasing the Devil's Tail (Storyville, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.69 � 924 ratings � published 2001
Letters from New Orleans (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 3.93 � 244 ratings � published 2005
Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.39 � 203 ratings � published 2008
Trombone Shorty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as new-orleans)
avg rating 4.29 � 4,876 ratings � published 2015
“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“To encapsulate the notion of Mardi Gras as nothing more than a big drunk is to take the simple and stupid way out, and I, for one, am getting tired of staying stuck on simple and stupid.
Mardi Gras is not a parade. Mardi Gras is not girls flashing on French Quarter balconies. Mardi Gras is not an alcoholic binge.
Mardi Gras is bars and restaurants changing out all the CD's in their jukeboxes to Professor Longhair and the Neville Brothers, and it is annual front-porch crawfish boils hours before the parades so your stomach and attitude reach a state of grace, and it is returning to the same street corner, year after year, and standing next to the same people, year after year--people whose names you may or may not even know but you've watched their kids grow up in this public tableau and when they're not there, you wonder: Where are those guys this year?
It is dressing your dog in a stupid costume and cheering when the marching bands go crazy and clapping and saluting the military bands when they crisply snap to.
Now that part, more than ever.
It's mad piano professors converging on our city from all over the world and banging the 88's until dawn and laughing at the hairy-shouldered men in dresses too tight and stalking the Indians under Claiborne overpass and thrilling the years you find them and lamenting the years you don't and promising yourself you will next year.
It's wearing frightful color combination in public and rolling your eyes at the guy in your office who--like clockwork, year after year--denies that he got the baby in the king cake and now someone else has to pony up the ten bucks for the next one.
Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.”
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
Mardi Gras is not a parade. Mardi Gras is not girls flashing on French Quarter balconies. Mardi Gras is not an alcoholic binge.
Mardi Gras is bars and restaurants changing out all the CD's in their jukeboxes to Professor Longhair and the Neville Brothers, and it is annual front-porch crawfish boils hours before the parades so your stomach and attitude reach a state of grace, and it is returning to the same street corner, year after year, and standing next to the same people, year after year--people whose names you may or may not even know but you've watched their kids grow up in this public tableau and when they're not there, you wonder: Where are those guys this year?
It is dressing your dog in a stupid costume and cheering when the marching bands go crazy and clapping and saluting the military bands when they crisply snap to.
Now that part, more than ever.
It's mad piano professors converging on our city from all over the world and banging the 88's until dawn and laughing at the hairy-shouldered men in dresses too tight and stalking the Indians under Claiborne overpass and thrilling the years you find them and lamenting the years you don't and promising yourself you will next year.
It's wearing frightful color combination in public and rolling your eyes at the guy in your office who--like clockwork, year after year--denies that he got the baby in the king cake and now someone else has to pony up the ten bucks for the next one.
Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.”
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
