According to Time Magazine, it was “the most catastrophic and costly hurricane in U.S. history.” After it made landfall on the Gulf Coast (most infamously New Orleans), Hurricane Katrina was responsible for the deaths of around 2,000 people and the displacement of thousands more. According to Time, the population of New Orleans dropped from 483,633 to 200,000 residents. A decade later, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are still dealing with Katrina’s aftermath.
To honor the anniversary, the library is a valuable resource.

• Books
  • Breach of Faith : Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
  • Come Hell or High Water : Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson
  • Disaster : Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security by Christopher Cooper
  • Not Just the Levees Broke : My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina by Phyllis Montana-Leblanc
  • Five Days at Memorial : Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
  • The Tin Roof Blowdown (Novel) by James Lee Burke
  • Ninth Ward (Children’s Novel) by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • A.D. : New Orleans after the Deluge (Graphic Novel) by Josh Neufeld
  • Down in the Flood (Novel) by Kenneth Abel
  • Groove Interrupted : Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans by Keith Spera
  • The Fight for Home : How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back by Daniel Wolff
  • Dark Rain : a New Orleans Story (Graphic Novel) by Mat Johnson et al
  • We’re Still Here, Ya Bastards : How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City by Roberta Brandes Gratz
  • Katrina: After the Flood by Gary Rivlin
• Documentaries, Television Shows, and Movies
  • Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Drowned a City
  • The Storm
  • When the Levees Broke
  • Wade in the Water, Children
  • Trouble the Water DVD; Streaming Video from our Subscription to Hoopla.
  • Inside Hurricane Katrina
  • Hurricane on the Bayou
  • New Orleans: Music in Exile
  • Engineering Disasters: New Orleans
  • Bad Lieutenant
  • Treme: Season One; Season Two; Season Three; Season Four
  • An American Opera (Streaming Video from our subscription to Hoopla)
  • A Bridge Life: Finding our Way Home(Streaming Video from our subscription to Hoopla)
• Websites
  • The New Orleans Times-Picayune Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary Page
  • The History Channel Hurricane Katrina Page
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Hurricane Katrina, 10 Years Later
  • Time Magazine: Hurricane Katrina by the Numbers
  • The New Orleans Advocate: After Hurricane Katrina