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
Paper Towns
Gone Girl
Big Little Lies
The Lovely Bones
Good Neighbors
Middlesex
Music for Torching: A Darkly Comic Literary Satire of Suburban Family Dysfunction in America
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
129 books — 63 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

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
50 books — 4 voters
The Uncoupling by Meg WolitzerLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgBurlington by Heather DixonYou Deserve to Know by Aggie Blum ThompsonThe Slippage by Ben Greenman
Suburbia from Above
15 books — 1 voter

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
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

Randall Jarrell
How young I seem; I am exceptional; I think of all I have. But really no one is exceptional, No one has anything, I'm anybody, I stand beside my grave Confused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary. ...more
Randall Jarell

Colin Walsh
You were thinking about how suburbs are perfect cradles for dreaming: they practically beg you to imagine another life, one lived at a burning voltage. The dreaming hidden in this place — murmuring beneath the comfort of the uniform gardens in their perfect rows, the mowed lawns, each driveway that bit too small for the two large cars — you couldn't have become what you are if you hadn't always been from this. ...more
Colin Walsh, Kala

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