Even now, though, I feel like Don DeLillo’s probing novel about the Kennedy assassination feels pertinent today. I made a last-minute decision, though, to cut “Libra,” a book by a guy from the Bronx about a guy from the Bronx who did a horrible thing in Dallas. Nunn’s “London Homesick Blues.” This is a place full of opportunities for reportage and also fertile ground for a personal reinvention. I don’t think somebody has to be a native to write about Texas any more than they have to be from Texas to sing Gary P. I’ll leave lost mines and buried treasures to J. This exercise wasn’t designed to be a treasure hunt. Much as I’d love to include “Sig Byrd’s Houston” and Jan Reid’s “The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock” - the latter ranges from $39 to $499 on Amazon.
Some degree of inclusivity and favoritism put them in the order they appear.īEST TEXAS MOVIES: Here's out list of the best films about the Lone Star State.īooks selected had to be readily available via click and credit card or curbside pickup from a local retailer.
And, no, they’re not ranked in any definitive way, because ranking books is like ranking weather. Doorstop histories were excluded, while focused histories were welcome - the idea was comfortable readability, which I realize is subjective. I tried to throw as wide a net for variety of authors, regions, subjects and eras. In putting it together, I set a few specs and ground rules. So here are 30 books - 15 fiction, 15 non-fiction - that in some way tell a unique bit of this state’s sprawling story. I’ve allotted some of that time for TV, some for music, some to do jigsaw puzzles with the family, and quite a bit of it reading. But here we are, slowly coming out of our shells during a pandemic, with the possibility of more inside time ahead of us. Tasked with putting together a list of great Texas books, I should’ve retreated to a smaller state with fewer great writers.
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