These 10 must-read books set in Louisiana prove that New Orleans’ famous Creole State Bourbon Street and annual Mardi Gras celebrations aren’t the only things to revel in; louisiana is home to amazing fiction and nonfiction. Take a trip to the bayou state with these books that take place in louisiana.
1. cane river by lalita tademy
“a new york times bestseller and an oprah book club pick: the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of black women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a creole plantation in louisiana” .
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2. interview with the vampire by anne rice
“Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and staggering power: a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolve, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel that only Anne Rice could write.”
3. a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams
“The story follows how faded and promiscuous Blanche Dubois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. streetcar launched the careers of marlon brando, jessica tandy, kim hunter, and karl malden, cementing tennessee williams’ position as one of the foremost young playwrights of his generation, as well as elia kazan’s as America’s greatest stage director. the 40s and 50s.”
4. dead till dusk (sookie stackhouse #1) by charlaine harris
“sookie stackhouse is just a small time cocktail waitress in bon temps, a small town in louisiana. she is quiet, doesn’t go out much, and tends to mind her own business, except when it comes to her “her disability”. sookie can read minds. And that doesn’t make it too quotable. she then she comes bill compton. he’s tall, dark, handsome, and sookie can’t hear a word she’s thinking. he’s exactly the kind of guy he’s been waiting his whole life for… but bill has his own handicap: he’s a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a series of murders comes to an end, along with a gang of really nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill, Sookie begins to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a brilliant idea.”
5. a confederation of fools by john kennedy toole
“The Confederation of Fools is a masterpiece of American comics. John Kennedy Toole’s hero, one Ignatius J. reilly, is “huge, obese, wayward, annoying, a gargantua of recent times, a don quixote from the french quarter. his story is packed with totally original characters, denizens of the nether depths of new orleans, unbelievably realistic dialogue, and the wackiest series of high and low comic adventures” (henry kisor, chicago sun-times).
6. A Lesson Before I Die by Ernest J. earnings
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“Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is a profound and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a young black man in the hallway of the death for a crime he did not commit. together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.”
7. dave eggers zeitoun
“The true story of a family caught between America’s two greatest political disasters: the War on Terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
“abdulrahman and kathy zeitoun have a house painting business in new orleans. in august 2005, as hurricane katrina approaches, kathy evacuates with her four young children, leaving zeitoun in charge of the business. In the days after the storm, she canoes around town, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. then on september 6, police armed with m-16s arrest zeitoun at her home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting tale of one family’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.”
8. john grisham’s pelican underpants
“in suburban georgetown, a killer reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home. In a seedy DC porn house, a customer is promptly clubbed to death. the next day, the united states learns that two of the supreme court justices have been assassinated. and in new orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief.
“for darby shaw it was nothing more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant assumption. for the washington establishment it is political dynamite. Suddenly, Darby witnesses a murder, a murder meant for her. Going underground, she discovers there is only one person, an ambitious reporter after a news story hotter than Watergate, whom she can trust to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the swamps of Louisiana and the inner sanctums of the White House, a violent cover-up is afoot. Because someone has read Darby’s report, someone who will stop at nothing to destroy evidence of an unthinkable crime.”
9. other voices, other rooms of truman capote
“truman capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, a daring foray into the mind of a sensitive child searching for the adult enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep south.
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“At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the ruined mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere to be seen. what he finds instead is a surly stepmother who delights in killing birds; a guy with the face —and heart— of a depraved child; and a fearsome girl named Idabel who can offer him the closest thing to love that he has ever known.”
10. all the king’s men by robert penn warren
“All the King’s Men traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey Long from Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but is soon corrupted by success and a lust for power.”
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