Florida Reads

Russell Banks’s acclaimed novel “Continental Drift” is a sweeping story of people drawn toward Florida in search of a better life, and one of…

Tom Corcoran’s “The Mango Opera” introduced Alex Rutledge, a Key West photographer who keeps getting pulled into solving crimes, and launched a beloved series…

Long before environmentalism was mainstream, John D. MacDonald, the master Florida novelist, wrote “A Flash of Green,” a gripping story about a fight to…

Ernest Hemingway wrote much of “To Have and Have Not” while living in his beloved Key West home in the 1930s, and the island…

Charles Willeford’s 1984 novel “Miami Blues” introduced Hoke Moseley, a rumpled, unforgettable Miami homicide detective, and helped launch a wave of modern Florida crime…

Peter Matthiessen’s “Killing Mister Watson” reaches deep into the wild frontier of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands, telling the story of Edgar Watson, a real…

Most field guides simply help you name things. Priceless Florida does something grander, weaving the state’s plants, animals, and landscapes into one connected, living…

If you want to hear the voice of Old Florida, the songs sung in the fields, the tales told on porches, the foods cooked…

A Hollywood location scout rolls into a faded little Florida Gulf town and finds far more than a movie backdrop. Beach Town, the breezy…

For more than thirty years, travelers heading down the Overseas Highway have packed one beloved book for the ride. The Florida Keys: A History…