Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 12:19     Subject: Re:Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Alex Cross mysteries.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 12:18     Subject: Re:Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

These might not be everyone's cup of tea, but he definitely knows DC. George Pelecanos, former writer on The Wire and DC Native among other things.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0053HDJKI?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks


Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 12:12     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are many good novels about middle class African American life in PG County and DC.
. NP here. Can you name a few?


DP. Co-sign. Please name a few!


Connie Briscoe has a whole series that is kinda chick lit.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 11:54     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are many good novels about middle class African American life in PG County and DC.
. NP here. Can you name a few?


DP. Co-sign. Please name a few!


Not PP, but here are my contributions: The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears and Lost In the City
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 11:51     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Anonymous wrote:Read the biography of Evelyn Walsh McLean. She was the last owner of the Hope Diamond.


OP here; thank you!
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 10:03     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are many good novels about middle class African American life in PG County and DC.
. NP here. Can you name a few?


DP. Co-sign. Please name a few!
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 08:59     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Upstairs at the White House — memoir from long-serving White House butler to numerous First Ladies
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 08:21     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Richard thompson’s Cul de Sac cartoon books are set in the suburbs of dc and tell the story of the Otterloop family
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 08:03     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Anonymous wrote:There are many good novels about middle class African American life in PG County and DC.
. NP here. Can you name a few?
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 07:22     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

There are many good novels about middle class African American life in PG County and DC.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 07:18     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Read the biography of Evelyn Walsh McLean. She was the last owner of the Hope Diamond.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 01:09     Subject: Re:Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 00:58     Subject: Re:Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

George Pelecanos
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2020 00:02     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

Books by Brad Meltzer
Anonymous
Post 12/21/2020 23:51     Subject: Books about daily life in Washington, DC / suburbs?

I read All Aunt Hagar’s Children recently and was wondering what other non-political books you all enjoyed that take place in DC or the DC area. Can be fiction or non-fiction.