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Louisiana

Great Books list by Vicki Nesting
 
 
 

James Lee Burke Black Cherry Blues

Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Truman Capote In Cold Blood

Kate Chopin The Awakening

Ernest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying

Shirley Ann Grau The Keepers of the House

Lillian Hellman Toys in the Attic

Tony Kushner Angels in America

Walker Percy The Moviegoer

Tennessee Williams Streetcar Named Desire

Runners up included Stephen Ambrose, Dee Brown, Andre Dubus, George Alec Effinger, Frances Parkinson Keyes, John Maginnis, Katherine Anne Porter, Sr. Helen Prejean...

Vicki Nestling also maintains a list of contemporary Louisiana authors, including mystery, romance, horror, etc