Big Books of Summer
Genres

Suburbs


Suburbs Books

Little Fires Everywhere
Revolutionary Road
The Virgin Suicides
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
The Stepford Wives
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
It Should Have Been You
Gone Girl
The Girl on the Train
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
Stoner
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
Gone for Good
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Lists

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
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John GreenAn Abundance of Katherines by John GreenLiliana by Neva Squires-RodriguezThe Orphan Factory by James MorcanA Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
YA Chicago-Land
14 books — 12 voters

PixieWorks by Nancy Tardiff LessemDead Beat by Jim ButcherStorm Front by Jim ButcherSmall Favor by Jim ButcherFool Moon by Jim Butcher
Best SF and Fantasy set in Chicago
68 books — 52 voters
The Magnus Archives by Jonathan SimsThe No-End House by Brian RussellSearch and Rescue Woods by Kerry HammondThe Midwich Cuckoos by John WyndhamHidden Door by Charlotte Bywater
If You Like Channel Zero
31 books — 13 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
53 books — 7 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

Quotes Tagged “Suburbs”

Tania Runyan
“ Only 15-20% of Rossmoor houses are “originals”—structures unchanged from their construction in the 1950s. The land is what’s valuable. People knock down the gingerbread cottages to build Mediterranean villas with no yards between them. I don’t want our family’s house to suffer that transformation. ”
― Tania Runyan, Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl
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“ I am opposed to Naperville. It's all cute, trendy and expensive, and filled with cookie-cutter Borg houses that assimilate you into upper-middle-class America. ...more ”
― Robyn Bachar, Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered
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Videos Tagged “Suburbs”

All The Difference
All The Difference
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