Suburbia


Revolutionary Road
The Virgin Suicides
Little Fires Everywhere
Little Children
The Corrections
The Stepford Wives
The Leftovers
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Gone Girl
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
Paper Towns
The Lovely Bones
Good Neighbors
Middlesex
The Abstinence Teacher
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
53 books — 7 voters
Revolutionary Road by Richard YatesBeyond the Last Time by Noah TuyaThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Parrot's Tale by Miller CaldwellFreedom by Jonathan Franzen
Suburban Fiction
132 books — 65 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 MathesonGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Dawn of Evil by L.E.  Parker
Suburban Gothic
51 books — 10 voters

You Deserve to Know by Aggie Blum ThompsonLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Uncoupling by Meg WolitzerBurlington by Heather DixonThe Slippage by Ben Greenman
Suburbia from Above
20 books — 2 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 Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Bus Rider
267 books — 23 voters

Lee Strobel
A church leader studied the history of architecture in New Zealand and found that before World War II, homes were built with verandas, where people would sit in the evenings with their family to greet passersby and invite them to stop and chat.
Lee Strobel, The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death - Library Edition

Sloan Wilson
The trick is to learn to believe that it's a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not true then; where Thou Shalt Not Kill and the fact that one has killed a great many men mean nothing, and absolutely nothing, for now is the time to raise legitimate children, and make money, and dress properly, and be kind to one's wife, and admire one's boss, and learn not to worry, and think of oneself as what? That makes no difference, he thought—I'm just a man in a gray flannel su ...more
Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

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