Ten Years After Hurricane Katrina: A Reading List

August 13, 2015

It’s been a decade since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, and over the weekend, books memorializing the tragedy were highlighted by the New York Times and in Lit Hub.

Lit Hub’s books included nonfiction, such as Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009) and A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, a graphic webcomic by Josh Neufeld (2009); and fiction, such as Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011) and City of Refuge by Tom Piazza (2008).

Katrina: After the Flood by Gary Rivlin (August 2015), a nonfiction book, explores the “absurdities of racial and economic injustice,” wrote Nathaniel Rich for the New York Times, and We’re Still Here Ya Bastards by Roberta Brandes Gratz (June 2015) describes the recovery of the city and the work of its citizens.

Read Lit Hub’s full list, or check out Goodreads’ list. Do you have any suggestions for other books not listed here? Name them in the comments!

Related reading: Renowned writer Walter Mosley describes the vibrancy of New Orleans culture.

Also, Walter Isaacson takes on the subject of hurricanes in an opinion piece in the New York Times: “[T]he memory of Katrina and the excitement of having to rebuild something better continues to keep people in New Orleans engaged and connected.” p>

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