TWFest Reading Lists

Read your way through our 2025 Festival! Choose from our lineup of incredible authors as you fill in the sentence: "I want to read a..."

Poetry Collection

Jack Bedell - Ghost Forest: Poems

Peter Cooley - Accounting for the Dark

Benjamin Morris - The Singing River

Book by an award-winning writer

Megan Abbott - Beware the Woman

Christine Carbo - A Sharp Solitude

Michael Cunningham - Day

Gwen Florio - Best Be Prepared

Adrianne Harun - On Our Way to the End of the World

Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields

Kate Segriff - Animals in Captivity

Boyce Upholt  - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Angie Kim - Happiness Falls

Book by a debut writer

Allison Alsup - Foreign Seed

KB Brookins - Pretty

Chin-Sun Lee - Upcountry

Kate Segriff - Animals in Captivity

E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year

Historical Novel

Allison Alsup - Foreign Seed

Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp

Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields

C.S. Harris - Who Will Remember

E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year

Book by an LGBTQ+ writer

Larry Bagneris Jr. - Call Me Larry

KB Brookins - Pretty

Michael Cunningham - Day

Margot  Douaihy - Scorched Grace; Blessed Water

Short Story Collection

Miles Harvey -  The Registry of Forgotten Objects

Kate Segriff - Animals in Captivity

Julia Ridley Smith - Sex Romp Gone Wrong

Thomas Keith & Tom Mitchell - Early Stories by Tennessee Williams

Book by a POC writer

Larry Bagneris Jr. - Call Me Larry

KB Brookins - Pretty

Alafair Burke - The Note

Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp

Chin-Sun Lee - Upcountry

Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields

Angie Kim - Happiness Falls

Christine Ma-Kellams - The Band

E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year

Book with an LGBTQ+ main character

Michael Cunningham - Day

Margot  Douaihy - Scorched Grace; Blessed Water

E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year

Book related to Tennessee Williams

Thomas Keith & Tom Mitchell - Early Stories by Tennessee Williams

David Kaplan - Tennessee Williams in Provincetown; Tenn Years; Tenn at One Hundred

Literary Novel

Michael Cunningham - Day

Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp

Chin-Sun Lee - Upcountry

Angie Kim - Happiness Falls

Christine Ma-Kellams - The Band

Memoir

Larry Bagneris Jr. - Call Me Larry

J.T. Blatty - Snapshots Sent Home: From Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine – A Memoir

KB Brookins - Pretty

Amanda Jones - That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Book with a POC main character

Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp

Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields

Angie Kim - Happiness Falls

Christine Ma-Kellams - The Band

E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year

Mystery/Crime/Thriller

Megan Abbott - Beware the Woman

Trudy Nan Boyce - The Policeman’s Daughter

Alafair Burke - The Note

Christine Carbo - A Sharp Solitude

Margot  Douaihy - Scorched Grace; Blessed Water

Gwen Florio - Best Be Prepared

Adrianne Harun - On Our Way to the End of the World

Marcie R. Rendon - Broken Fields

Angie Kim - Happiness Falls

C.S. Harris - Who Will Remember

Book set in the South

Margot  Douaihy - Scorched Grace; Blessed Water

Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp

C.H. Hooks - Can’t Shake the Dust

E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year

Nonfiction Book

Amanda Jones - That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Bess Rowen - Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment

Boyce Upholt  - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Eric Cook - Modern Creole: A Taste of New Orleans Culture and Cuisine

Gary Richards - Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936 - 1961

Justin Maxwell - The Playwright's Toolbox: Exercises from 56 Contemporary Dramatists on Designing, Building, and Refurbishing Your Plays

Book by a New Orleans writer

Allison Alsup - Foreign Seed

Larry Bagneris Jr. - Call Me Larry

Eric Cook - Modern Creole: A Taste of New Orleans Culture and Cuisine

Peter Cooley - Accounting for the Dark

Yuri Herrera - Season of the Swamp

Chin-Sun Lee - Upcountry

Benjamin Morris - The Singing River

Justin Maxwell - The Playwright's Toolbox: Exercises from 56 Contemporary Dramatists on Designing, Building, and Refurbishing Your Plays

Boyce Upholt  - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

C.S. Harris - Who Will Remember

E.M. Tran - Daughters of the New Year