This is big. The Florida Humanities Council has added "Manatee Insanity" to its list of essential Florida books.

These are the books that, the council says, every Floridian should be familiar with. The council said "Manatee Insanity" belongs on this list because, "In microcosm, the saga reflects the decades-long struggle between development and wildlife, and how one has impacted the other during Florida’s booming growth."

Others on the list: Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Ernest Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' "Everglades: River of Grass."