- Dan Baum – Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
- Sheila Bosworth – Almost Innocent
- Douglas Brinkley – The Great Deluge: Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
- Bliss Broyard – One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life-A Story of Race and Family Secrets
- James Lee Burke – The Neon Rain
- Charlaine Harris – Dead Until Dark
- Alan V. Hewat – Lady’s Time
- Lisa Jackson – Hot Blooded
- Nancy Lemann – The Lives of the Saints
- Bill Pronzini – Masques
- Julia Reed – The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
- Anne Rice – The Witching Hour
- Anne Rice – Interview with the Vampire
- Nora Roberts – Midnight Bayou
- John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces









