The Doree Chronicles: Favorite New York Fiction, In Alphabetical Order by Author
- 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.
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Doree Chronicles. Looking for reading list additions to offset a surplus
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add Thomas Pynchon’s V. which is more or less 1/2 set in NYC and includes a hunt for alligators in the sewers.
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Fine list, but I would put...there too. (The Extra Man)?
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“Time and Again” by Jack Finney
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This is absolutely not something that should be added to a list of novels that are strong through and through. BUT there...
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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,...
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Co-signed. Read some passages here before you go out and buy it or borrow it from a friend. Capital’s film critic Sheila...
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I would have to add (self-servingly, natch) Lynne Tillman’s NO LEASE ON LIFE, characterized by no less than Fran...
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Two things that, to me, are glaring omissions: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith), which is hands down my favorite...
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