• Native American Legends: Tales from the Natchez, Caddo,
  Biloxi, Chickasaw, and Other Nations by Charles Lankford, ed.
• The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana by Fred Kniffen,
  Charles Stokes and Hiram Gregory
• Power by Linda Hogan

• The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of
  Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803 by Carl Brasseaux
• Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
• The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour:
  Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger by Terry L. Jones, ed.
• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and
  How it Changed America by John M. Barry
• The Earl of Louisiana by A.J. Leibling

• Afro-American Folktales: Stories from the Black Tradition
  in the New World by Roger Abrahams, ed.
• Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South
  by John Burrison, ed.
• Cajun Folktales by J. J. Reneaux
• Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen,
• Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana by Carl Lindahl,
  Maida Owens and C. Renee Harvison, eds.

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
• A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux

• Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the
  American West by Patricia Nelson Limerick
• Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
• The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey

• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
• The Imported Bridegroom by Abraham Cahan
• Typical American by Gish Jen
• Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
• American Mosaic: Multicultural Readings in Context
  by Barbara Roach Rico and Sandra Mano, eds.

• Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness Pontalba
  by Christine Vella
• Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon
• Unveiling Kate Chopin by Emily Toth
• The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey Long by William Ivy Hair
• Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans by Louis Armstrong
• The Last Madam by Christine Wiltz

I’ll Be Seeing You... America and World War II

• Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway by Walter Lord
• Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis
• Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook
• The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe As Told by the
  Men Who Fought It by Gerald Astor
• D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
  by Stephen Ambrose
• Voices from the Third Reich: An Oral History
  by Johannes Steinhoff, ed.
• Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America
  in World War II by Ronald Takaki

• A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase
  and the Destiny of America by Jon Kukla
• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis,Thomas Jefferson,
  and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose

• Brokenburn: Journal of Kate Stone,1861-1868
  by John Anderson, ed.
• One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End:
  The Red River Campaign by Gary Joiner
• When the Devil Came Down to Dixie:
  Ben Butler in New Orleans by Chester Hearn
• The Civil War in Louisiana by John Winters
• The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience
  during the Civil War by James Hollandsworth

• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s
  Free People of Color by Sybil Kein, ed.
• The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
• Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization
  by Arnold Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon
• Catherine Carmier by Ernest Gaines

• The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
• The Armada by Garret Mattingly
• Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in
  Elizabethan London by Liza Picard
• Shakespeare Alive! by Joseph Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland

• Louisiana Power and Light by John Dufresne
• On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton, ed. Susan Roach
• Shreveport Sounds in Black and White
  by Kip Lornell & Tracy Baird, eds.
• Swaggart: The Unauthorized Biography of an
  American Evangelist by Ann Rowe Seaman