A Woman Like Me – Bettye Lavette
Taps – Willie Morris
140 Goats and a Guitar – David Berkeley
North Toward Home – Willie Morris
Thoughts Without Cigarettes – Oscar Hijuelos
Mr. Sammler’s Planet – Saul Bellow
Herzog – Saul Bellow
Firefly – Severo Sarduy
Christ On The Rue Jacob – Severo Sarduy
Johnny Too Bad – John Dufresne
It So Happen – Timothy Callendar
The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax – Tom Piazza
Chinaberry Sidewalks – Rodney Crowell
Welcome to the Arrow Catcher Fair – Lewis Nordan
Jazz Body and Soul – Bob Willoughby
Tiger Rag – Nicholas Christopher
How Literature Saved My Life – David Shields
Venus Drive – Sam Lipsyte
The Collected Stories – Calvert Casey
Gumbo Tales – Sara Roahen
The Art Of Cartography – J. S. Marcus
98% Funky Stuff – Maceo Parker
Maps To Anywhere – Bernard Cooper
We Live In Water – Jess Walter
Tin Roof Blowdown – James Lee Burke
Woes of the True Policeman – Roberto Bolano
The Wrong Handed Man – Lawrence Millman
Little Green – Walter Mosley
Enough About You – David Shields
Long Gone Daddies – David Wesley Williams
Ayiti – Roxane Gay
Come Together, Fall Apart – Christina Henriquez
Creole Belle – James Lee Burke
Tenth of December – George saunders
The Geographical Cure – Michael Parker
Grey Skies Tomorrow – Silvia Molina
High Wire Moon – Susan Straight
The Fun Parts – Sam Lipsyte
Between Heaven and Here – Susan Straight
King Of Cuba – Christina Garcia
New Hope For The Dead – Charles Willeford
The Way We Die Now – Charles Willeford
Sideswipe – Charles Willeford
The Shark Infested Custard – Charles Willeford
Miami Blues – Charles Willeford
I Was Looking For A Street – Charles Willeford
Men In Miami Hotels – Charlie Smith
Don’t Make Me Stop Now – Michael Parker
Hit Me Fred – Fred Wesley
High Times, Hard Times – Anita O’Day (recommended by Kelly Hogan)
The Big Ear – Robin Hemley
A Small Hotel – Robert Olen Butler
Fidel’s Last Days – Roland Merullo
When the Women Come Out to Dance – Elmore Leonard
Bruce – Peter Ames Carlin
The Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier (recommended by Jon Cleary)
The Ballad of Gato Guerrero – Manuel Ramos
Hectic Ethics – Francisco Hinojosa
Jack Of Diamonds – Elizabeth Spencer
Kansas City Lightning – Stanley Crouch
The Book Of My Lives – Aleksander Hemon
Local Souls – Allen Gurganus
Southern Cross The Dog – Bill Cheng
Cadillac Jukebox – James Lee Burke
A Morning For Flamingos James Lee Burke
Mo’MetaBlues – Ahmir Questlove Thompson & Ben Greenman
Levels of Life – Julian Barnes
Barracuda In The Attic – Kipp Friedman
Purple Cane Road – James Lee Burke
Crusader’s Cross – James Lee Burke
Eminent Hipsters – Donald Fagen
The Big Blowdown – George Pelecanos