Oleanders, the ocean, Mardi Gras, hurricanes and history: just some of the elements present in an assortment of titles set on the island of Galveston, Texas. Provided by the staff at the West University Branch Library.
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- Linda S. Bingham. Born on the Island: A Novel of Galveston
- Three generations of Coolidge women and the men who love them: how they cope with the Great Storm of 1900, and the years following.
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- James Carlos Blake. Under the Skin: A Novel
- Gambling, bootlegging, and other illicit pleasures made Galveston a hot town in the 1930s, and James Youngblood is in the thick of it, working as a ghost rider/enforcer for the island’s mob bosses.
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- Bill Crider. Murder Takes a Break: A Truman Smith Mystery
- Reluctant Galveston p.i. Truman Smith investigates the disappearance of a student on spring break.
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- Mary Gardner. Boat People: A Novel
- The struggles of a group of Vietnamese refugees who have moved to Galveston.
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- Geoffrey Leavenworth. Isle of Misfortune
- A Galveston family living in a restored Victorian home finds their charmed life shattered when gunshot follows the sound of their front door bell ringing.
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- P. G. Nagle. Galveston
- A novel about one of the most important conflicts in the Trans-Mississippi Civil War: the Battle of Galveston.
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- Mary Curtner Powell. Galveston Rose
- A wealthy Galveston widow without descendants changes her will often, affecting the lives of her two closest male friends, one a boat captain/reformed thief, the other a young medical student.
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- Ron Rozelle. The Windows of Heaven: a Novel of Galveston's Great Storm of 1900
- The horrors and heroes of the Great Storm come to life in this novel depicting what is still known as the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
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- Sean Stewart. Galveston
- Mardi Gras in Galveston collides with a magically realized future where the dancing never stops, and the revelers in attendance rarely return to the real world: an alternate history/fantasy novel.
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- Ashley Warlick. The Summer After June
- When her older sister is murdered, Lindy Jain leaves her job, her fiancé and family, ending up in Galveston, where she hopes to start over.
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