Key West has always interested people. So there is no wonder that there are so many books about Key West, both fiction and non-fiction. Here is a list of many of those books, albeit this is by no means a fully comprehensive one. I have bolded some of the books that I have or have read so I can personally recommend them.
007 Exotic Location, Key West – Reel Art
A Fool’s Death – John Cooney
Air Dance Iguana – Tom Corcoran
Airports in Monrie County, Florida – Books LLC
Alexis’ Island: Growing up in the Tropical Paradise of Key West – David Lee Hemmel
An Appetite for Murder: A Key West Food Critic Mystery – Lucy Burdette
A Season in the South – Marci Alborghetti
A Sketch of the History of Key West – Walter Maloney
An Appetite for Murder – Lucy Burdette
Bad Monkey – Carl Hiaasen
Back on the Road to Key West – Michael Reisig
Between Man and Woman Keys – Rosalind Brackenbury
Beyond Paradise – Rosalind Brackenbury
Beyond the Reef – Todd Strasser
Bone Island Mambo – Tom Corcoran
Callahan’s Con – Spider Robinson
Callahan’s Key – Spider Robinson
Calypso Cafe: Cooking up the Best Flavors from the Keys and the Caribbean – Bob Epstein
Cedar Key – James West
Chasin’ the Wind: Mick Murphy Key West Mystery – Michael Haskins
A Chivalrous Fray for Melinda’s Key West Sunset Irises – Justin Schlosberg
Choke – Stuart Woods
Christmas in Key West – Cynthia Thomason
Cold Case Killer – Dorothy Brenner Francis
Completing the Circle – Carol Lynne
Conch Salad – Tracy McDonald
Conch Shell Murder – Dorothy Brenner Francis
Confessions of a Key West Cabby – Michael Suib
Cooking in Key West – Ed Ochester
The Cypress House – Michael Koryta
Dead Run – Erica Spindler
Death in Four Courses – Lucy Burdette
Death in Key West: A Brad Fairfax Murder Mystery – Jeffrey Round
Death with All the Trimmings – Lucy Burdette
Don Balasco of Key West. A Novel – Archibald Clavering Gunter
Doorstop On A Houseboat in Key West – Wayne Gales
Doubloon – Jan Amberg
Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret – Leila Rupp
Dream of Orchids – Phillis Whitney
Driftwood Houses: A Key West Story Sequence – Jon Miller
Eden Palms Murder – Dorothy Francis
End of A1A: Key West Reader – Dave Ferneding
Ernest Hemingway in Key West: A Guide – Marsha Bellavance-Johnson
Farewell, Conch Republic – Hiaheah Jackson
Fatal Reservations – Lucy Burdette
Florida Keys Bucket List – David Sloan
The Florida Keys: Miami to Key West – Jonathan Edwards
Florida Keys Paddling Guide: From Key Largo to Key West – Bill Keogh
Florida Straits – Laurence Shames
Florida’s Key West – Bruce Morris
The Funerals of Key West – Edgardo
Ghosts of Key West – David Sloan
Ghost Moon – Heather Graham
Ghost Memories – Heather Graham
Ghost Shadow – Heather Graham
Grits and Grunts: Folkloric Key West – Stetson Kennedy
Gumbo Limbo – Tom Corcoran
Haunts and Homes: a Tour of Key West Writer’s History – Gail Duerfeldt Hinand
Hemingway’s Girl – Erika Robuck
Hemingway’s Key West – Stuart B McIver
Her Last Seven Days in Key West – Joe Wells
Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades: Including Key Largo and Key West – Candace Leslie
The Houses of Key West – Alex Caemmerer
If You’re Ever in Key West – Jane Dawkins
Insiders Guide to Florida Keys and Key West – Juliet Gray
Insiders Guide: Key West in Your Pocket: Your Guide to an Hour, a Day, or a Weekend in Key West – Nancy Toppino
Inside Route Pilot – New York to Key West – Anon
The Jews of Key West – Arlo Haskell
June Keith’s Key West and the Florida Keys – June Keith
Keyguide to the Florida Keys and Key West – George Stevenson
Key Waste: Swinging with the Savages in the Conch Republic – Jag Allen
Key West – Lynn Coleman
Key West – Alan Austin
Key West – Demi Alex
Key West – Jefferson Browne
Key West – Jon Michael Miller
Key West – Stella Cameron
Key West Writers and Their Houses – Lynn Kaufelt
Key West Color – Alan Maltz
Key West Companion: Views of Six Nobel Laureates – Christopher CoxKey West, Florida – Lynn HomanFishing Key West and the Lower Keys – David Conway
Key West and the Florida Keys, Florida – Lynn Homan
Key West (Hot in the City #3) – Lacey Alexander
Key West Connection – Randy Wayne White
Key West: A Tropical Lifestyle – Leslie Linsley
Key West Short Stories – Island Joe
Key West Connection – Randy Wayne White
Key West: City of Colors – Talmadge Hayward
Key West: History of an Island of Dreams – Maureen Ogle
Key West, Florida – Frederic Miller
Key West: A Guide to Florida’s Southernmost City – Sarah Goodwin-Nguyen
Key West Conspiracy – Steve Gerson
Key West Dreams – Nancy Julian
Key West Florida: Black America – Norma Jean Sawyer
Key West Gardens and Their Stories – Janis Frawley-Holler
Key West Heat – Alice Orr
Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment – Kirk Cunutt
Key West Houses – Leslie Linsley
The Keys and Way Out West – Philip Kram
Key West: A Max Clevland Mystery – Alan Austin
Key West Luck – Laurence Shames
Key West Magic – Ciar Cullen
Key West Tales – John Hersey
Kidnapped in Key West – Edwina Raffa
Killer in Control – Dorothy Francis
Killer Take Out – Lucy Burdette
The Last Resort – Alison Lurie
The Last Ruble : A Story is Born – Joe Wells
Life Along the Inner Coast: A Naturalist’s Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West – Robert Lippson
The Lighthouse, the Cat and the Sea – Leigh Rutledge
The Literary Sands of Key West – Patricia Altobello
Living withFlorida’s Atlantic Beaches: Coastal Hazards from Amelia Island to Key West – David Bush
Loitering with Intent – Stuart Woods
Louie’s Backyard Cookbook: Irresistible Island Dishes and the Best Ocean View in Key West – Michael Stern
The Mango Opera – Tom Corcoran
Mangrove Squeeze – Laurence Shames
Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West – William McKeen
The Monarch of Key West – David Paule
The Mountains of Key West – Sandra McDonald
Murder in Key West – William Freeman
Murder with Ganache – Lucy Burdette
Nacho Unleashed – Laurence Shames
The Naked Detective – Laurence Shames
Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen’s Bath to Ernest Hemingway’s Key West – Shannon McKenna Schmidt
Old Key West – L. P. Artman, Jr.
One Big Joke – Laurence Shames
One Strange Date – Laurence Shames
Out Around Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Key West – Thomas Cook
Over Key West and the Florida Keys – Chuck Feil
Papa: Hemingway in Key West – James McLendon
Postcards from Paradise: Romancing Key West – June Keith
The Princess – Jude Deveraux
The Quick Adios – Tom Corcoran
The Road to Key West: A Caribbean Adventure Novel – Michael Reising
The Road to Key West Ink – Boe Mencarelli
Scavenger Reef – Laurence Shames
Set Up on Front Street – Mike Dennis
Shot on Location – Laurence Shames
Slack Key West – Jim West
Slave Ship: the story of the Henrietta Marie – George Sullivan
Stolen Fury – Elisabeth Naughton
The Streets of Key West: A History of Street Names – Willis Burke
Sunburn – Laurence Shames
Surviving and Thriving: Key West During the Zombie Apocalypse – Esther Domian
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Topped Chef – Lucy Burdette
Trap Line – Carl Hiassen
Traveler’s Guide to the Key West; See the Nature, Museums, Bars, and More – Julie Cloud
Tropical Depression – Laurence Shames
Tropical Swap – Laurence Shames
Turtle in Paradise – Jennifer L Holm
The Unauthorized Guide to Carnival Cruise Line Ports of Call: Key West, Florida – Jo Burns
Virgin Heat – Laurence Shames
Welcome to Paradise – Laurence Shames
West of Key West – John Cole
A Winter in the West Indies and Florida … with a particular description of St. Croix, Trinidad de Cuba, Havana, Key West and St. Augustine, as places of resort for northern invalids. By an Invalid. – Anon
With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba – Arnold Samuelson
The Wrong Man – Kate White
