- Travels, William Bartram, 1791
- Palmetto-Leaves, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1873
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
- The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1938
- The WPA Guide to Florida, edited (among others) by Stetson Kennedy 1939
- Palmetto Country, Stetson Kennedy, 1942
- The Lion’s Paw, Robb White, 1946
- Everglades: River of Grass, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 1947
- The Deep Blue Goodbye, John D. MacDonald, 1964
- Oranges, John McPhee, 1966
- Ninety-Two in the Shade, Thomas McGuane, 1972
- Condominium, John D. MacDonald, 1977
- A Land Remembered, Patrick D. Smith, 1984
- Tourist Season, Carl Hiaasen, 1987
- The Man Who Invented Florida, Randy Wayne White, 1993
- Florida: a Short History, Michael Gannon, 1993
- A Naturalist in Florida, Archie Carr, 1994
- Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz, 2002
- Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, Gary Mormino, 2005
- Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen, 2008
- Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King, 2012
- The Gulf, Jack E. Davis, 2017