Suburbia


Revolutionary Road
The Virgin Suicides
Little Children
Little Fires Everywhere
The Corrections
The Stepford Wives
The Leftovers
Gone Girl
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
Paper Towns
The Lovely Bones
Good Neighbors
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Middlesex
The Abstinence Teacher
You Deserve to Know by Aggie Blum ThompsonThe Uncoupling by Meg WolitzerLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgBurlington by Heather DixonThe Slippage by Ben Greenman
Suburbia from Above
20 books — 2 voters
Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth T. JacksonBorderland by John R. StilgoeA Field Guide to Sprawl by Dolores HaydenPicture Windows by Rosalyn BaxandallSuburbiaNation by Robert A. Beuka
SUBURBIA • SUBURBAN • SUBURBS
51 books — 5 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonDon't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo WillemsRosa by Nikki GiovanniLast Stop on Market Street by Matt de la PeñaThe Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole
Bus Rider
266 books — 24 voters
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesGood Neighbors by Joanne SerlingThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Stories of the suburbs
32 books — 36 voters

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonDark Tales by Shirley JacksonGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Suburban Gothic
53 books — 12 voters
Suburban Hell by Maureen KilmerThe Regulators by Richard  BachmanEliza Starts a Rumor by Jane L. RosenThe Leftovers by Tom PerrottaRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Suburban Fiction
122 books — 37 voters

Alan   Sharp
“ To the west are the residential streets, wide, treey, high cambered and in genteel disrepair. There are few tenements and further out only the large square sandstone houses of the doctors and lawyers and owners and inheritors, of the clergy and the architects and the retired wealthy. There are no shops and few cars and children play faintly in back gardens. There is quiet and the regular grid of the streets beats a slow drum, the tempo of security. Here the prosperous have always lived and had t ...more ”
― Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde

“ LA is very different from New York. New York is a huge, dense metropolis. LA is a bunch of small towns all running into each other. New York is the city that never sleeps. Los Angeles is an endless sea of suburbs. ”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, New York to Los Angeles Roadtrip

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