🏙️ Mid-Century Brooklyn

Brooklyn before gentrification — a midcentury borough of immigrant strivers, stickball summers, and tightly knit neighborhoods where identity was forged block by block.

Brooklyn

by Colm Tóibín • 2009

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

3.75

163k+

🗽 Immigrant Experience 📚 Quiet Literary Realism 🌍 Between Two Worlds

Brooklyn 89%

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

by Colm Tóibín 2009

3.75

163k+ ratings

🗽 Immigrant Experience 📚 Quiet Literary Realism 🌍 Between Two Worlds

Last Exit to Brooklyn

by Hubert Selby Jr. • 1964

Drag queens and dockworkers in 1950s Brooklyn seek a tenderness their world is built to crush.

3.95

33k+

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🌃 1950s Brooklyn 🥀 Doomed Queer Longing

Last Exit to Brooklyn 89%

Drag queens and dockworkers in 1950s Brooklyn seek a tenderness their world is built to crush.

by Hubert Selby Jr. 1964

3.95

33k+ ratings

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🌃 1950s Brooklyn 🥀 Doomed Queer Longing

Bruce Lee

by Bruce Lee • 2001

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

4.21

1k+

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir

Bruce Lee 89%

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

by Bruce Lee 2001

4.21

1k+ ratings

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith • 1943

A bookish tenement girl clings to reading while her charming father drinks and her mother scrubs.

4.30

517k+

🗽 Immigrant Family Saga 🍺 Alcoholic Father 📚 Bookish Heroine

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 88%

A bookish tenement girl clings to reading while her charming father drinks and her mother scrubs.

by Betty Smith 1943

4.30

517k+ ratings

🗽 Immigrant Family Saga 🍺 Alcoholic Father 📚 Bookish Heroine

My Name Is Asher Lev

by Chaim Potok • 1972

A Hasidic boy in Brooklyn is born to draw, a gift his father calls sin.

4.24

44k+

🎨 Artistic Bildungsroman ✡️ Hasidic Community 🏙️ Postwar Brooklyn

My Name Is Asher Lev 88%

A Hasidic boy in Brooklyn is born to draw, a gift his father calls sin.

by Chaim Potok 1972

4.24

44k+ ratings

🎨 Artistic Bildungsroman ✡️ Hasidic Community 🏙️ Postwar Brooklyn

The Lincoln Highway

by Amor Towles • 2021

Two brothers aim for California. Two stowaways from a work farm demand New York instead.

4.22

316k+

🚗 Midcentury Road Trip 🇺🇸 1950s Americana 🧭 Coming-Of-Age Journey

The Lincoln Highway 87%

Two brothers aim for California. Two stowaways from a work farm demand New York instead.

by Amor Towles 2021

4.22

316k+ ratings

🚗 Midcentury Road Trip 🇺🇸 1950s Americana 🧭 Coming-Of-Age Journey

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

by Bill Bryson • 2006

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

3.94

69k+

🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Summary

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 87%

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

by Bill Bryson 2006

3.94

69k+ ratings

🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir

Another Country

by James Baldwin • 1962

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

4.30

35k+

🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers

Another Country 87%

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

by James Baldwin 1962

4.30

35k+ ratings

🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers

Franny and Zoey

by J.D. Salinger • 1957

Sick of pretense, she collapses at lunch. Her brother must talk her back to the world.

3.96

242k+

🌀 Existential Crisis 👥 Sibling Bond 📚 Precocious Family

Franny and Zoey 87%

Sick of pretense, she collapses at lunch. Her brother must talk her back to the world.

by J.D. Salinger 1957

3.96

242k+ ratings

🌀 Existential Crisis 👥 Sibling Bond 📚 Precocious Family

The Flamethrowers

by Rachel Kushner • 2013

A motorcyclist turns speed into art, then follows her Italian lover into his family's violent world.

3.51

25k+

🎨 1970s Art World 💫 Artist And Muse 💰 Old Money Family

The Flamethrowers 87%

A motorcyclist turns speed into art, then follows her Italian lover into his family's violent world.

by Rachel Kushner 2013

3.51

25k+ ratings

🎨 1970s Art World 💫 Artist And Muse 💰 Old Money Family

Not Our Kind

by Kitty Zeldis • 2018

A car crash pulls a Jewish teacher into a WASP home, where hiding her identity is survival.

3.76

6k+

🤝 Cross-Class Friendship 🗽 Postwar New York 🎭 Hidden Identity

Not Our Kind 87%

A car crash pulls a Jewish teacher into a WASP home, where hiding her identity is survival.

by Kitty Zeldis 2018

3.76

6k+ ratings

🤝 Cross-Class Friendship 🗽 Postwar New York 🎭 Hidden Identity

Doctors

by Erich Segal • 1988

Two Brooklyn friends become doctors, discovering the hardest patient is themselves.

4.08

15k+

🩺 Medical School 👯 Lifelong Friendship 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine

Doctors 87%

Two Brooklyn friends become doctors, discovering the hardest patient is themselves.

by Erich Segal 1988

4.08

15k+ ratings

🩺 Medical School 👯 Lifelong Friendship 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine

City of Girls

by Elizabeth Gilbert • 2019

Expelled from college, a seamstress discovers glamour and peril in her aunt's 1940s theater.

4.04

324k+

🗽 1940s New York 🎭 Theater World ✨ Showgirl Glamour

City of Girls 87%

Expelled from college, a seamstress discovers glamour and peril in her aunt's 1940s theater.

by Elizabeth Gilbert 2019

4.04

324k+ ratings

🗽 1940s New York 🎭 Theater World ✨ Showgirl Glamour

Pineapple Street

by Jenny Jackson • 2023

Three women in a wealthy Brooklyn family learn that money buys everything except belonging.

3.55

212k+

🏛️ Old Money Family 🍸 Comedy Of Manners 💎 Marrying Into Wealth

Pineapple Street 87%

Three women in a wealthy Brooklyn family learn that money buys everything except belonging.

by Jenny Jackson 2023

3.55

212k+ ratings

🏛️ Old Money Family 🍸 Comedy Of Manners 💎 Marrying Into Wealth

The Manhattan Girls

by Gill Paul • 2022

Four women in jazz age Manhattan fight for careers, love, and a table of their own.

3.69

3k+

🗽 Jazz Age Manhattan 👯 Female Friendship 🖤 Dark Humor

The Manhattan Girls 87%

Four women in jazz age Manhattan fight for careers, love, and a table of their own.

by Gill Paul 2022

3.69

3k+ ratings

🗽 Jazz Age Manhattan 👯 Female Friendship 🖤 Dark Humor

Moon Palace

by Paul Auster • 1989

As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.

3.98

30k+

🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Family Secrets

Moon Palace 87%

As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.

by Paul Auster 1989

3.98

30k+ ratings

🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Family Secrets

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon • 2000

Jewish cousins in 1939 Brooklyn invent a superhero who fights the evil they can only draw.

4.19

214k+

🌟 Golden Age Comics 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted Gay Protagonist 🎨 Refugee Artist

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Summary

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 87%

Jewish cousins in 1939 Brooklyn invent a superhero who fights the evil they can only draw.

by Michael Chabon 2000

4.19

214k+ ratings

🌟 Golden Age Comics 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted Gay Protagonist 🎨 Refugee Artist

Inside the Apple

by Michelle Nevius • 2009

A walking guide to reading Manhattan: every block holds a chapter of American history.

4.14

403

📖 Urban History 🗽 New York City History 🚶 Walking Tours

Inside the Apple 87%

A walking guide to reading Manhattan: every block holds a chapter of American history.

by Michelle Nevius 2009

4.14

403 ratings

📖 Urban History 🗽 New York City History 🚶 Walking Tours

Just Kids

by Patti Smith • 2010

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

4.21

362k+

🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists

Just Kids 87%

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

by Patti Smith 2010

4.21

362k+ ratings

🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists

That Green Eyed Girl

by Julie Owen Moylan • 2022

Decades-old letters pull a teen into the forbidden romance that shattered in her New York apartment.

3.87

2k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Sapphic Historical 💔 Forbidden Love

That Green Eyed Girl 87%

Decades-old letters pull a teen into the forbidden romance that shattered in her New York apartment.

by Julie Owen Moylan 2022

3.87

2k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Sapphic Historical 💔 Forbidden Love

Ask Again, Yes

by Mary Beth Keane • 2019

One cop shoots his neighbor. The children they leave behind spend decades orbiting the ruins.

3.93

206k+

🏠 Family Saga 💞 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🧠 Mental Illness

Ask Again, Yes 87%

One cop shoots his neighbor. The children they leave behind spend decades orbiting the ruins.

by Mary Beth Keane 2019

3.93

206k+ ratings

🏠 Family Saga 💞 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🧠 Mental Illness

The Facts

by Philip Roth • 1988

A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.

3.70

1k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers On Writing ✡️ Jewish Identity

The Facts 87%

A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.

by Philip Roth 1988

3.70

1k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers On Writing ✡️ Jewish Identity

In the Best Families

by Rex Stout • 1950

His client killed, Wolfe fakes his disappearance and goes undercover inside a crime empire.

4.30

5k+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔍 Private Detective 🤝 Detective Duo

In the Best Families 87%

His client killed, Wolfe fakes his disappearance and goes undercover inside a crime empire.

by Rex Stout 1950

4.30

5k+ ratings

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔍 Private Detective 🤝 Detective Duo

One Last Stop

by Casey McQuiston • 2021

August falls for a girl on the Q who hasn't aged since the 1977 blackout.

3.88

294k+

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Romance ⏳ Time Slip Romance 🏠 Queer Found Family

One Last Stop 87%

August falls for a girl on the Q who hasn't aged since the 1977 blackout.

by Casey McQuiston 2021

3.88

294k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Romance ⏳ Time Slip Romance 🏠 Queer Found Family

The Power Broker

by Robert A. Caro • 1974

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

4.53

30k+

🏙️ Urban Planning 📋 Political Biography ⚡ Power And Democracy

The Power Broker 87%

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

by Robert A. Caro 1974

4.53

30k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Planning 📋 Political Biography ⚡ Power And Democracy

Humans of New York

by Brandon Stanton • 2015

Ten thousand New Yorkers, one photographer, and the question that revealed a city's hidden soul.

4.55

20k+

🧱 Street Photography 🎤 Oral History 🏠 Everyday Lives

Humans of New York 87%

Ten thousand New Yorkers, one photographer, and the question that revealed a city's hidden soul.

by Brandon Stanton 2015

4.55

20k+ ratings

🧱 Street Photography 🎤 Oral History 🏠 Everyday Lives

Tapestry

by Belva Plain • 1988

A secret affair and a hidden child haunt a wealthy Jewish dynasty from WWI to the Holocaust.

4.06

2k+

💔 Forbidden Love 🤫 Secret Child 🏗️ Self-Made Man

Tapestry 86%

A secret affair and a hidden child haunt a wealthy Jewish dynasty from WWI to the Holocaust.

by Belva Plain 1988

4.06

2k+ ratings

💔 Forbidden Love 🤫 Secret Child 🏗️ Self-Made Man

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

by Lynda Cohen Loigman • 2024

Sixty years after a love elixir failed, a retired pharmacist finds her first love next door.

4.05

28k+

🌿 Folk Healing Traditions 🏥 Generational Healing 🔄 Second Chance Romance

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern Summary

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern 86%

Sixty years after a love elixir failed, a retired pharmacist finds her first love next door.

by Lynda Cohen Loigman 2024

4.05

28k+ ratings

🌿 Folk Healing Traditions 🏥 Generational Healing 🔄 Second Chance Romance

The Wednesday Wars

by Gary D. Schmidt • 2007

Wednesdays with Mrs. Baker: Shakespeare, eraser dust, and Holling's certainty she wants him gone.

4.12

48k+

📜 Shakespeare In School 🤝 Unlikely Mentorship 🌅 Bittersweet Coming Of Age

The Wednesday Wars 86%

Wednesdays with Mrs. Baker: Shakespeare, eraser dust, and Holling's certainty she wants him gone.

by Gary D. Schmidt 2007

4.12

48k+ ratings

📜 Shakespeare In School 🤝 Unlikely Mentorship 🌅 Bittersweet Coming Of Age

Sinatra's Century

by David Lehman • 2015

A hundred glimpses of a singer who mapped an American century: mob, movies, music.

3.97

169

🎵 Great American Songbook 🌟 Cultural Icons 🎲 Rat Pack

Sinatra's Century 86%

A hundred glimpses of a singer who mapped an American century: mob, movies, music.

by David Lehman 2015

3.97

169 ratings

🎵 Great American Songbook 🌟 Cultural Icons 🎲 Rat Pack

Last Night in Brooklyn

by Xóchitl González • 2026

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

3.66

4k+

🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family

Last Night in Brooklyn 86%

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

by Xóchitl González 2026

3.66

4k+ ratings

🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family

A Freewheelin' Time

by Suze Rotolo • 2008

The girl on Dylan's Freewheelin' cover reclaims her life from the image that buried it.

3.85

4k+

🎵 Folk Music Revival 🎸 Music Memoirs ✌️ 1960s Counterculture

A Freewheelin' Time 86%

The girl on Dylan's Freewheelin' cover reclaims her life from the image that buried it.

by Suze Rotolo 2008

3.85

4k+ ratings

🎵 Folk Music Revival 🎸 Music Memoirs ✌️ 1960s Counterculture

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan

by Georges Simenon • 1946

Adrift in Manhattan, a French actor meets a woman just as lost. Over three rooms, they risk love.

3.36

5k+

🖤 Noir Romance 🌃 Midnight Encounter 🧳 Expatriate Loneliness

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan 86%

Adrift in Manhattan, a French actor meets a woman just as lost. Over three rooms, they risk love.

by Georges Simenon 1946

3.36

5k+ ratings

🖤 Noir Romance 🌃 Midnight Encounter 🧳 Expatriate Loneliness

The Black Hand

by Stephan Talty • 2017

One NYPD detective took on the Black Hand. His bosses barely cared if his people survived.

3.63

2k+

🕵️ Organized Crime 🇮🇹 Early Mafia 🏙️ Gilded Age

The Black Hand 86%

One NYPD detective took on the Black Hand. His bosses barely cared if his people survived.

by Stephan Talty 2017

3.63

2k+ ratings

🕵️ Organized Crime 🇮🇹 Early Mafia 🏙️ Gilded Age

Olga Dies Dreaming

by Xóchitl González • 2022

A Brooklyn wedding planner and her congressman brother face the mother who left them for revolution.

3.96

79k+

🏠 Family Saga 💔 Mother Wound 🌋 Political Awakening

Olga Dies Dreaming 86%

A Brooklyn wedding planner and her congressman brother face the mother who left them for revolution.

by Xóchitl González 2022

3.96

79k+ ratings

🏠 Family Saga 💔 Mother Wound 🌋 Political Awakening

On Power

by Robert A. Caro • 2017

How one man built a financial empire inside the government and became untouchable.

3.95

1k+

🏙️ Urban Planning 🏛️ Political Power 🗳️ Machine Politics

On Power 86%

How one man built a financial empire inside the government and became untouchable.

by Robert A. Caro 2017

3.95

1k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Planning 🏛️ Political Power 🗳️ Machine Politics

Table for Two

by Amor Towles • 2024

A peasant couple is uprooted by revolution; an art dealer schemes for a family's prized painting.

4.19

74k+

🖇️ Linked Novellas 🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🤫 Quiet Protagonist

Table for Two 86%

A peasant couple is uprooted by revolution; an art dealer schemes for a family's prized painting.

by Amor Towles 2024

4.19

74k+ ratings

🖇️ Linked Novellas 🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🤫 Quiet Protagonist

Speedboat

by Renata Adler • 1976

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

3.75

8k+

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation

Speedboat 86%

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

by Renata Adler 1976

3.75

8k+ ratings

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

by Thomas J. Sugrue • 1996

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

4.24

2k+

🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization

The Origins of the Urban Crisis 86%

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

by Thomas J. Sugrue 1996

4.24

2k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization

Rules of Civility

by Amor Towles • 2011

A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.

4.09

273k+

🪜 Social Climbing 💔 Love Triangle 💪 Self-Made Woman

Rules of Civility 86%

A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.

by Amor Towles 2011

4.09

273k+ ratings

🪜 Social Climbing 💔 Love Triangle 💪 Self-Made Woman

Mary Jane

by Jessica Anya Blau • 2021

A sheltered Baltimore teen spends one summer nannying for a family hiding a famous rock star.

4.12

115k+

📅 1970s Coming Of Age 🏠 Bohemian Household 🩷 Found Family

Mary Jane 86%

A sheltered Baltimore teen spends one summer nannying for a family hiding a famous rock star.

by Jessica Anya Blau 2021

4.12

115k+ ratings

📅 1970s Coming Of Age 🏠 Bohemian Household 🩷 Found Family

The Basketball Diaries

by Jim Carroll • 1978

A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.

3.99

32k+

🖤 Addiction Memoir 🗽 1960s New York 🏀 Sports As Salvation

The Basketball Diaries 86%

A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.

by Jim Carroll 1978

3.99

32k+ ratings

🖤 Addiction Memoir 🗽 1960s New York 🏀 Sports As Salvation

The Great Bridge

by David McCullough • 1972

The father died. The son collapsed. The daughter-in-law stepped in and built the Brooklyn Bridge.

4.26

19k+

💰 Gilded Age History 🌉 Civil Engineering History 🏗️ Megaproject Narratives

The Great Bridge 86%

The father died. The son collapsed. The daughter-in-law stepped in and built the Brooklyn Bridge.

by David McCullough 1972

4.26

19k+ ratings

💰 Gilded Age History 🌉 Civil Engineering History 🏗️ Megaproject Narratives

When We Were the Kennedys

by Monica Wood • 2012

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

3.93

8k+

🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America

When We Were the Kennedys 86%

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

by Monica Wood 2012

3.93

8k+ ratings

🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America

The Warmth of Other Suns

by Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

4.48

119k+

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History

The Warmth of Other Suns 86%

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

by Isabel Wilkerson 2010

4.48

119k+ ratings

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History

Long Island

by Colm Tóibín • 2024

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

3.70

89k+

💔 Love Triangle 🏠 Return To Hometown ☁️ Melancholy

Long Island 86%

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

by Colm Tóibín 2024

3.70

89k+ ratings

💔 Love Triangle 🏠 Return To Hometown ☁️ Melancholy

Run Baby Run

by Nicky Cruz • 1969

His switchblade ruled a Brooklyn gang until an unarmed preacher walked in and refused to leave.

4.24

17k+

🏙️ Gang Life ✝️ Conversion Testimony ⛪ Urban Ministry

Run Baby Run 86%

His switchblade ruled a Brooklyn gang until an unarmed preacher walked in and refused to leave.

by Nicky Cruz 1969

4.24

17k+ ratings

🏙️ Gang Life ✝️ Conversion Testimony ⛪ Urban Ministry

The Lonely Londoners

by Sam Selvon • 1956

Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.

3.70

14k+

🛳️ Windrush Generation 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🏙️ Postwar London

The Lonely Londoners 86%

Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.

by Sam Selvon 1956

3.70

14k+ ratings

🛳️ Windrush Generation 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🏙️ Postwar London

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

by Walker Percy • 1961

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

3.64

31k+

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 86%

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

by Walker Percy 1961

3.64

31k+ ratings

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan • 2010

A punk turned producer and his kleptomaniac assistant reckon with the thief that is time.

3.70

252k+

🕸️ Interconnected Stories 🔀 Nonlinear Narrative ⏳ Passage Of Time

A Visit from the Goon Squad 86%

A punk turned producer and his kleptomaniac assistant reckon with the thief that is time.

by Jennifer Egan 2010

3.70

252k+ ratings

🕸️ Interconnected Stories 🔀 Nonlinear Narrative ⏳ Passage Of Time

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