I really liked A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Letters from Rifka and I am looking for novels in that time period, nothing too depressing like grapes of wrath please.
I like the game Mafia 2 for example, with the older cars and music and such.
by InternationalBug9641
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{{The Blue Castle}}
{{the apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz}}
Jorge Amado: Captains of the Sands
Jami Attenberg: Saint Mazie
Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffanys
AJ Cronin: the Green Years
RF Delderfield: to Serve them all my Days
Nevil Shute: a Town like Alice
Jacqueline Winspear: the Maisie Dobbs books (crime)
*11/22/63: A Novel* –Stephen King
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
It takes place in New York at the beginning of the XXth century and should fit the bill !
The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles