books about miami and south florida because i love my home
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last updated July, 2026
Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami
Roben Farzad
The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho
Anjanette Delgado
Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America
Les Standiford
When the Hibiscus Falls
M. Evelina Galang
Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
Elmore Leonard
Miami Noir: The Classics
The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
Richard Blanco
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy
Carlos Eire
The Tale of the Body Thief
Anne Rice
Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen
Marie Mitchell
The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980 (A Wild Year in Miami's History)
Nicholas Griffin
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Michael Grunwald
Say Hello to My Little Friend
Jennine Capó Crucet
Mayra
Nicky Gonzalez
The House on Biscayne Bay
Chanel Cleeton
Florida
Lauren Groff
Pink Glass Houses
Asha Elias
The Florida Room
Alexandra T. Vazquez
How to Leave Hialeah
Black Miami in the Twentieth Century (Florida History and Culture)
Marvin Dunn
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly
Ordinary Girls
Jaquira Díaz
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
Vida
Patricia Engel
Everything Inside
Edwidge Danticat
If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
Tourist Season
Carl Hiaasen
A Land Remembered
Patrick D. Smith
Miami
Joan Didion
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