My favorite New Orleans books
Discover the best New Orleans books in this curated reading list, featuring literary classics like A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole—a must-read for fans of Southern fiction and Big Easy culture.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
Ignatius Reilly, the hero, is a grotesque Gargantua, in violent revolt against the entire 20th century and what he takes to be the manifold excesses and perversions of the past 400 years. He lumbers through New Orleans leaving chaos in his wake.
