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A



Tim Allis
Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned

Allison Alsup
Foreign Seed: A Novel

Jeffrey E. Anderson
Voodoo: An African American Religion

Lily Anderson
Killer House Party

Kayla Min Andrews
The Fetishist: A Novel
by Katherine Min

Jess Armstrong
The Curse of Penryth Hall:
A Mystery

Monica Arnaldo
Are You a Cheeseburger
     

B



Anne Babson
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Stacey Balkun
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

John K. Bardes
The Carceral City:
Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

Erin Z. Bass
Moderator

Jack B. Bedell
Ghost Forest: Poems

Felice Belle
Viscera

Burke Bischoff
Po'Boy

Jeffrey Blount
Mr. Jimmy from
Around the Way: A Novel

Martha B. Boone
Mother Charity:
A Big Free Novel

Darrell Bourque
Until We Talk

Sandra Bretting
Unfit to Serve

Kimberly Brock
The Fabled Earth:
A Novel

Catharine Savage Brosman
Aerosols and Other Poems

Taylor Brown
Rednecks: A Novel

James Lee Burke
Clete: A Dave
Robicheaux Novel

C



Diana B. Carlin
Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women

Tracy Carr
Moderator

Lisa Carrico
Panelist

Alton Carter
Different Together

Brooke Champagne
NOLA Face: A Latina's
Life in the Big Easy

Caroline Cleveland
When Cicadas Cry:
A Novel

Eric Cook
Modern Creole: A Taste of New Orleans Culture and Cuisine

Nicole Cooley
Mother Water Ash: Poems

Peter Cooley
Accounting for Dark

Ralph Eric Criss
The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City

D



Jay Dardenne
Why Louisiana Ain't Mississippi
...Or Any Place Else!

Cassandra de Alba
Poet

Victor Dixen
The Court of Shadows
and
The Court of Miracles

Johnette Downing
Petit Pierre and His Wild Adventure

Andre Dubus III
Ghost Dogs:
On Killers and Kin

Jeff Duncan
A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence
       

E



Elizabeth N. Ellis
The Great Power
of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy
in the Gulf South

Ashley Elston
First Lie Wins: A Novel

Jumata Emill
Wander in the Dark

Mason Engel
Documentary:
Books across America: A Road Trip Documentary
 

F



Ellen Ann Fentress
The Steps We Take:
A Memoir of Southern Reckoning

Gina Ferrara
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Keith M. Finley
From Slavery to Segregation: Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American South

Lisa Fipps
Starfish

Joe Formichella
The Best of the Shortest:
A Southern Writers Reading Reunion

M.R. Fournet
Darkness and
Demon Song

and
Brick Dust and Bones

Ariel Francisco
All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins

J. Bruce Fuller
How to Drown a Boy: Poems
   

G



Cheryl Gerber
The Danse Macabre: Celebration and Survival in New Orleans

Matthew S. Ghergich IV
Dixie the Fiddle Playing Cajun Pixie

Michel Gleason
A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence

Steve Gleason
A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence

Dana David Gravot
"Je jongle au Bon Dieu quand je traite": Traiteurs in Francophone Louisiana

Katie Green
Gregory's Digestible Alphabet

Robert Gwaltney
The Cicada Tree: A Novel

Minrose Gwin
Beautiful Dreamers:
A Novel
   

H



Jay Hakes
The Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to Bush

Barbara Hamby
Holoholo: Poems

Kelly Harris-DeBerry
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Lisi Harrison
Graveyard Girls

Mandy Haynes
The Best of the Shortest:
A Southern Writers Reading Reunion

Jesse Haynes
Silent

Carolyn Hembree
For Today: Poems

Yuri Herrera
Season of the Swamp:
A Novel

C.H. Hooks
Can't Shake the Dust

Suzanne Hudson
The Best of the Shortest:
A Southern Writers Reading Reunion

Stephen Hundley
Bomb Island: A Novel

Shaun David Hutchinson
The School for
Invisible Boys
     

J



Hannah Jones
Moderator

Amanda Jones
That Librarian: The Fight Against
Book Banning in America
   

K



Julie Kane
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Rick Kelley
I Read About It in a Book

David Kirby
The Winter Dance Party: Poems, 1983-2023

Karen Konnerth
The Snowman Waltz

Daniel Kraus
Pay the Piper: A Novel
and
Graveyard Girls

Dylan Krieger
Predators Welcome
       

L



Errol Laborde
When Rex Met Zulu and Other Chronicles of the New Orleans Experience

Peggy Scott Laborde
Documentary:
Literary New Orleans

Lizzetta LaFalle-Collins
Seasons at Lakeside Dairy: Family Stories from a Black-Owned Dairy, from Louisiana to California
and Beyond

Rob Lalka
The Venture Alchemists: How Big Techs Turned Profit into Power

Guy Lamolinara
Moderator

Karen LeBlanc
Moderator

Daniel W.K. Lee
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

R.J. Lee
The Majestic Leo Marble:
A Novel

Rosey Lee
The Gardins of Edin:
A Novel

Jeffrey Dale Lofton
Podcast: Inside Voices

Annell López
I'll Give You
a Reason: Stories

Christopher Lowe
Make Some Wretched Fool to Pay: Stories

Adrienne Lundgren
Magnificent Intentions: John Wood, First Federal Photographer, 1856-1963
   

M



Bruce Magee
Liberty in Louisiana:
A Comedy

by James Workman

Dawn Major
The Bystanders

Bethany Mangle
Conditions of the Heart

Monica Mankin
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Rachel M. Marsh
Rougarou Magic

Bev Marshall
The Best of the Shortest:
A Southern Writers Reading Reunion

Valerie Martin
Mrs. Gulliver: A Novel

Melissa Martin
Bayou: Feasting Through the Seasons of a
Cajun Life

Jimmy Matejek-Morris
Forsooth

Crystal Mayo
Lucy's Home: A True Story
how Prayer
Changed Everything

Anita McBride
Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America’s History-Making Women

Shirley McCoy
Dragon Song

Mary McMyne
A Rose by
Any Other Name

Jeanette Medearis
I Dig the Skin I Am In,
I Am Loving Myself
Skin Deep!

Linda Midgett
Why Louisiana Ain't Mississippi
…Or Any Place Else!

Corey J. Miles
Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South

James W. Miller
King of the Gun Runners: How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War

Derek Milman
A Darker Mischief

Katherine Min
The Fetishist: A Novel

Heather-Marie Montilla
PBS Books

Benjamin Morris
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Geoff Munsterman
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Kay Murphy
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry
   

N



Dennis Nangle
Moderator

GennaRose Nethercott
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart and Other Stories

Nini Nguyen
Dac Biet: An Extra-Special Vietnamese Cookbook

Janet Nodar
The Best of the Shortest:
A Southern Writers Reading Reunion

James Nolan
Between Dying and Not Dying, I Chose the Guitar: The Pandemic Years
in New Orleans

O



Phil Oakley
Little Hatchet

C.E. O'Banion
Chinese New Year:
A Novel

Biljana D. Obradović
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Karen O'Connell
Moderator/Panelist
 

P



Melinda Palacio
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Hannah Palmer
The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for
a Place to Swim

Stephen M. Payne
Liberty in Louisiana:
A Comedy

by James Workman

Alison Pelegrin
Louisiana Poet Laureate

Jonathan Penton
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Valentine Pierce
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Theodore Pitsios
The Best of the Shortest:
A Southern Writers Reading Reunion

Alisha Prather
Ava's Wish

Jasper Price
The Incredible JumpRoller Dragons: A Small World War Novel
 

R



Ned Randolph
Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta:
A Call for Reclamation

Lee Reed
The Cipher of
the Seven Stars

Helen Regis
Bayou Harvest: Subsistence Practices in Coastal Louisiana

Gary Richards
One Book One Festival - The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty

Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

Farrah Rochon
Pardon My Frenchie

Erin Rovin
It's Raining in Florida
and
It's Sunny in Florida

Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The American Daughters: A Novel

Ed Ruzicka
Squalls: Poems
 

S



Mona Lisa Saloy
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Michele Chan Santos
Moderator/Panelist

Sandra Sarr
The Poetry Buffet:
An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry

Patric Schaffner
Moderator/Panelist

Katherine Schellman
The Last Note of Warning: A Mystery

Susie J. Shepherd
Sounds of the Forest

Dayne Sherman
The Best of the Shortest:
A Southern Writers Reading Reunion

Paul Siefken
Vernon Poche & the Ghosts of New Orleans

John Warner Smith
From the Flinty Rock:
New & Selected Poems

Nancy Kegan Smith
Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women

Bruce Spizer
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night & More
and
The Beatles Please Please Me to With The Beatles

Sheryl St. Germain
Moderator

Anthony J. Stanonis
New Orleans Pralines:
Plantation Sugar,
Louisiana Pecans,
and the Marketing of
Southern Nostalgia

Mary Stein
Moderator

Michael Strecker
The Knights of Wade

T



Joselyn Takacs
Pearce Oysters: A Novel

William J. Thibodeaux
Cajun Country Chronicles
     

U



Karen Ullo
To Crown with Liberty

Boyce Upholt
The Great River:
The Making and
Un-Making
of the Mississippi
     

V



Lacey Vidrine
Peter the Skeeter

       

W



Kent Wascom
The Great State of West Florida: A Novel

Madison Webb
Mardi Gras in New Orleans

David Weill
All That Really Matters

Emma C. Wells
This Girl's a Killer

Ken Wells
Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou

Julie Liddell Whitehead
Hurricane Baby: Stories

Sadie Wilks
Ava's Wish

Brittany N. Williams
Saint-Seducing Gold

Elizabeth M. Williams
The Southern Food & Beverage Museum Cookbook: Recipes from the Modern South

LaDarrion Williams
Blood at the Root

Ashley Winstead
Midnight is the Darkest Hour: A Novel

Olivia Worley
People to Follow: A Novel

Snowden Wright
The Queen City Detective Agency: A Novel

Ben Wynne
A Hound Dog Tale:
Big Mama, Elvis, and the Song That Changed Everything
 

Y



Mark Yakich
Little Data

Steve Yates
The Lakes
of Southern Hollow

Andy Young
Museum of
the Soon to Depart
   

Z



Karen Spears Zacharias
No Perfect Mothers:
A Novel

Susan Beckham Zurenda
The Girl from the Red Rose Motel: A Novel