Tricentennial Reading List
Tuesdays during Morning Edition (8:44 a.m.) and All Things Considered (5:44 p.m.)
Make the most of your reading hours during 2018, New Orleans’ tricentennial year! Join Susan Larson, host of The Reading Life, as she talks with local authors and readers about their favorite books from three hundred years of New Orleans literature. The Tricentennial Reading List will comprise the “top 300” books from multiple genres—fiction to food, murder mysteries to music.
Production of the Tricentennial Reading List is supported by the Helis Foundation, the John Burton Harter Foundation, and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans, by Lawrence N. PowellTroubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke’s Louisiana, by Lawrence N.…
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Les Cenelles, edited by Armand LanusseFrom a Bend in the River:100 New Orleans Poets, edited by Kalamu ya SalaamThe Maple Leaf Rag, various editionsAll…
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Stories from the St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans, by Sally AsherVol. 2 Friends of the Cabildo New Orleans Architecture series: Cemeteries.Cemeteries…
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21st centuryThe Floating World, by Morgan BabstRestoration, by John Ed BradleyThe Not-Yet and Dream State, by Moira CroneThe Missing, by Tim GautreauxHold…
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A Walk on the Wild Side, by Nelson AlgrenAlmost Innocent and Slow Poison, by Sheila BosworthDecorations in a Ruined Cemetery, by John Gregory BrownThe…
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19th and early 20th centuryThe Grandissimes, by George Washington CableThe Awakening, by Kate ChopinBalcony Stories, Grace KingGoodness of St. Rocque,…
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Charting Louisiana: 500 Years of Maps edited by Alfred E. Lemmon, John T. Magill, and Jason Wiese; consulting editor, John R. HébertUnfathomable City: A…
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This week on the Tricentennial Reading List - Susan Larson continues her look at 300 great New Orleans books with geographer and author Richard…
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Hope & New Orleans: A History of Crescent City Street Names, by Sally AsherFrenchmen, Desire, Good Children, by John Churchill ChaseNew Orleans Streets: A…
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Hope & New Orleans: A History of Crescent City Street Names, by Sally AsherFrenchmen, Desire, Good Children, by John Churchill ChaseNew Orleans Streets: A…