Ten top books about New Orleans

The Guardian invited its readers to come up with the best books about New Orleans. One title to make the list:

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (1984)

This novel features four main storylines, set in eighth-century Bohemia and modern-day Paris, Seattle and, of course, New Orleans. One of writer Patrick Ness’s top “unsuitable” books for teenagers – that he nevertheless enjoyed in his teen years: “I was amazed to discover that fiction could be, of all things, playful. That it didn’t always need to be polite. That it could have runaway metaphors just for a laugh”.

Read about the other books on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue