 | 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.97 Times Picayune columnist Chris Rose's brief sketches of Katrina's people
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 | Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: And Other Streets of New Orleans by John Churchill Chase
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $5.15 The story behind the names of New Orleans streets
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.88 The timeless comic tale of Ignatius J. Reilly, who stumbles about New Orleans, belching, insulting ("the geometry and theology are completely incorrect"), and causing miscellaneous havoc, all because of being unfairly forced into earning a living by his mother.
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 | A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.30 One of the most famous plays ever with a New Orleans setting.... Tennessee Williams' tale of Blanche DuBois, her brother-in-law Stanley, and her sister, STELLA!!
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 | Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans (2nd Edition, Expanded) by Kerri McCaffety
Buy used from: $24.95 Sumptuous photos and stories of the famous taverns of New Orleans
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 | New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City by Andrei Codrescu
Buy used from: $3.74 Editor of The Ultimate Corpse and NPR commentator, Andrei Codrescu's collection of brief essays about The Big Easy, written over 20 years but published the year after Katrina.
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 | Gardens of New Orleans: Exquisite Excess by Lake Douglas
Buy new: $30.40 / Used from: $20.94 |
 | The French Quarter of New Orleans by Jim Fraiser
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $23.95 |
 | New Orleans Style: Past & Present by Susan Sully
Buy used from: $16.25 New Orleans architecture
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 | Very New Orleans: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Cajun Country Charm by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.50 A New Orleans travel guide for those with short attention spans... little watercolor illustrations with interesting facts about all of the major sites
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 | New Orleans for Dummies, Second Edition by Kevin Forest Moreau
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | The Streetcars of New Orleans by Louis C. Hennick
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $24.95 |
 | Managing Ignatius: The Lunacy of Lucky Dogs and Life in New Orleans by Jerry Strahan
Buy new: $16.24 / Used from: $0.96 The history of the hot dog carts of the Quarter and the transients who worked them (as immortalized by Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces)
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 | The New Orleans Cookbook by Rima Collin
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.67 |
 | When the Levees Broke - A Requiem In Four Acts (Documentary)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $11.99 OK--it's not a book. But Spike Lee's documentary is a must see to understand the devastating impact and frustration of Katrina
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 | New Orleans Cemeteries: Life in the Cities of the Dead by Robert Florence
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $5.40 Photos, history and explanation of the unique above-ground burial vault cemeteries of New Orleans
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 | Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales by Lyle Saxon
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $4.97 |
 | New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence by Richard Sexton
Buy used from: $5.99 |
 | Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 She no longer lives in the Garden District but this has to be on the list...
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 | A Mardi Gras Dictionary by Beverly Barras Vidrine
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $7.12 |
 | Why New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City
Buy used from: $0.95 |
 | The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Buy new: $4.50 / Used from: $0.01 Written in 1899, this once-banned novel, set in New Orleans, tells of the sexual and emotional awakening of Edna Pontellier, and through her, helped pave the way for future generations of American women
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 | Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm by Richard Campanella
Buy new: $36.14 / Used from: $35.94 A Tulane Geography professor's incredibly in-depth analysis of the city, it's influences, and geography
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 | The Unofficial Guide to New Orleans (Unofficial Guides) by Eve Zibart
Buy used from: $1.25 |
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