Anonymous
04/02/2024 21:12
Subject: Best Novel set in DC
As a teen I loved the Margaret Truman mysteries, but I suspect I’d be underwhelmed by them as an adult.
Anonymous
04/02/2024 21:02
Subject: Best Novel set in DC
Anonymous wrote:Heartburn!
Came here to say this!
Also Thank You for Smoking and a lot of other novels by the same author are very DC politico insider. Often funny and irreverent.
Anonymous
04/02/2024 15:33
Subject: Best Novel set in DC
Horse by Geraldine Brooks is mostly a historical fiction novel but one of its plot lines is present day and set in DC.
Anonymous
04/02/2024 15:30
Subject: Best Novel set in DC
Something by Gore Vidal?
Anonymous
04/02/2024 15:29
Subject: Best Novel set in DC
The entire George Pelecanos catalog (The Sweet Forever is my favorite) and Edward P. Jones's collection of short stories Lost in the City.
Anonymous
04/02/2024 13:48
Subject: Re:Best Novel set in DC
Anonymous wrote:The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
+1 for this
Anonymous
04/02/2024 13:46
Subject: Best Novel set in DC
Heartburn!
Anonymous
04/02/2024 11:57
Subject: Re:Best Novel set in DC
I really enjoy political thriller books set in DC such as Dan Brown The Lost Symbol and Brad Meltzer books.
Anonymous
04/02/2024 11:34
Subject: Best Novel set in DC
The House of Eve is partially set here, but it's not modern.
Anonymous
04/02/2024 11:34
Subject: Best Novel set in DC
The beautiful things that heaven beats
All aunt Hagar's children (short stories)
All aunt Hagar's children (short stories)
Anonymous
04/02/2024 11:33
Subject: Re:Best Novel set in DC
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Anonymous
Anonymous
04/02/2024 11:31
Subject: Re:Best Novel set in DC
Echo House by Ward Just
The Last of the Southern Girls by Willie Morris
Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
The Last of the Southern Girls by Willie Morris
Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
Anonymous
04/02/2024 11:22
Subject: Re:Best Novel set in DC
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders springs to mind. It's historical fiction, of course, so if you're looking for something about modern-day DC it won't work.
Anonymous
04/01/2024 22:47
Subject: Best Novel set in DC
Sending a friend who lives in another country a book as a gift, she is an avid reader and I would love to send a novel set in DC because I am trying to get her to visit.
She reads everything, I think!
Ideas?
She reads everything, I think!
Ideas?