A River Unvexed: A History and Tour Guide to the Campaign for the Mississippi River, by Jim Miles
Around the Bend: A Mississippi River Adventure, by C.C. Lockwood
Big River Reader, ed. Pamela Eyden with Molly McGuire and Reggie McLeod
Chasing Steam: A Comical, Historical, Twainical Novel, by Jack McLaughlin
Come Hell or High Water: A Lively History of Steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, by Michael Gillespie
Devil at the Confluence, by Kevin Belford
It Happened on the Mississippi River, by James A. Crutchfield
Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain
Mississippi River Trail, by Hermann Plasa
Mississippi Solo, by Eddy Harris
Mr. Roosevelt’s Steamboat, by Mary Helen Dohan
My Kind of River Journey: Seeking Passage on the Mississippi, by Susan Carol Hauser
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi, by Jonathan Raban
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot 1854–1863, by George Byron Merrick
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, by John M. Barry
River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain, by Thomas Ruys Smith
Road to the Sea: The Story of James B. Eads and the Mississippi River, by Florence Dorsey
Road Trip USA: Great River Road, by Jamie Jensen
St. Louis and the Mighty Mississippi in the Steamboat Age, by Ruth Ferris
Settlements of the Mississippi River, by Rob Bowden
Tales of a River Rat, by Kenny Salwey
The Mighty Mississippi: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest River, by Higgins Bond and Linda Vieira
The Mississippi River Festival, by Amanda Bahr-Evola and Stephen Kerber
The Mississippi River in Maps & Views: From Lake Itasca to The Gulf of Mexico, by Robert A. Holland
The Mississippi Steamboat Era, by Joan W. Gandy and Thomas H. Gandy
The Old-Time River Rats: Tales of Bygone Days Along the Wild Mississippi, by Kenny Salwey
The River Between Us, by Richard Peck (grade 7 and up)
The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi, by John O. Anfinson
The 1,000-Year Flood: Destruction, Loss, Rescue, and Redemption Along the Mississippi River, by Stephen J. Lyons
Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore, by B.A. Botkin
Up on the River: People and Wildlife of the Upper Mississippi, by John Madson and Dycie Madson
Way’s Packet Directory, by Frederick Way Jr.
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes, by Jay Feldman
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild, by Lee Sandlin