The Doree Chronicles: Favorite New York Fiction, In Alphabetical Order by Author

doree:

- Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
- Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
- Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
- John Cheever, The Collected Stories
- Junot Diaz, Drown
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the…

Winter’s Tale, for sure. 


Notes

  1. thatwasjustatalentshow reblogged this from doree and added:
    Doree Chronicles. Looking for reading list additions to offset a surplus
  2. brevetcaptain reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    add Thomas Pynchon’s V. which is more or less 1/2 set in NYC and includes a hunt for alligators in the sewers.
  3. peterwknox reblogged this from doree and added:
    Fine list, but I would put...there too. (The Extra Man)?
  4. lelands said: “Time and Again” by Jack Finney
  5. rexineffex reblogged this from mcnallyjackson
  6. amiwithani reblogged this from mcnallyjackson and added:
    This is absolutely not something that should be added to a list of novels that are strong through and through. BUT there...
  7. mcnallyjackson reblogged this from doree and added:
    This is a good list. Am I...Gatsby as a—maybe even the—New York novel? A little wrongly,...
  8. capitalnewyork reblogged this from alexbalk and added:
    Co-signed. Read some passages here before you go out and buy it or borrow it from a friend. Capital’s film critic Sheila...
  9. richardnash reblogged this from doree and added:
    I would have to add (self-servingly, natch) Lynne Tillman’s NO LEASE ON LIFE, characterized by no less than Fran...
  10. plittly reblogged this from doree and added:
    Two things that, to me, are glaring omissions: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith), which is hands down my favorite...
  11. rachelinbrooklyn reblogged this from doree
  12. barthdoesthings reblogged this from gumplr and added:
    Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann is a really good one too.