It’s 305 day, and Books & Books is celebrating the city we’ve called home since our founding in 1982. Join us as we celebrate Miami’s history, culture, and the stories that have been inspired by both. Explore our reading list to tour the Magic City in all it’s tangled, eclectic glory.

SUGGESTED READING

MIAMI by Tony Kelly

SEEING DIFFERENTLY: MIAMI COLOR THEORY  by Laura Paresky Gould

THE MANGO TREE by Annabelle Tometitch

THE 500 HIDDEN SECRETS OF MIAMI by Jen Karetnick

LIFEGUARD TOWERS: MIAMI by Tommy Kwak

GATOR COUNTRY by Rebecca Renner

WILDSAM FIELD GUIDES: FLORIDA KEYS by Taylor Elliott Bruce

MIAMI ARCHITECTURE by Allan T. Shulman, Randall C. Robinson, and James F. Donnelly

MIAMI COOKS by Sara Liss

FROM SWAMP TO WETLAND by Chris Wilhelm

FLORIDAS by Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans

GODLIS: MIAMI by David Godlis

IN MIAMI IN THE 1980S  by Charlotte Von Moos, Max Creasy, and Kersten Geers

A WORLD MORE CONCRETE by N. D. B. Connolly


THE YEAR OF DANGEROUS DAYS by Nicholas Griffin

BLACK MIAMI IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Marvin Dunn

MIAMI by Joan Didion

15 VIEWS OF MIAMI by Jaquira Díaz

LAST TRAIN TO PARADISE by Les Standiford

THE FLORIDA KEYS by Joy Williams

THE SWAMP by Michael Grunwald

HOTEL SCARFACE by Roben Farzad

THE EVERGLADES: RIVER OF GRASS by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

BUBBLE IN THE SUN by Christopher Knowlton

DISPOSABLE CITY by Mario Alejandro Ariza