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