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
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
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

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
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

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
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

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

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

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