Books like A Brief History of Seven Killings
The attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 spirals into a three-decade story of gangsters, politics, drugs and the CIA, told by more than a dozen voices from Kingston to New York.
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City of God
Three decades of the rise and war of the gangs of one Rio de Janeiro housing project, told from inside by a man who grew up in it and stripped fiction out of it.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Linked stories of longshoremen, hustlers, transvestites, and strikers in 1950s Red Hook Brooklyn, told in unpunctuated bursts that broke American obscenity law and then the English sentence.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
A rock star and a photographer fall in love against a backdrop of earthquakes, Orphic myth, and the collision of Eastern and Western music.
The Book of Daniel
Daniel Isaacson, the son of a couple executed for spying in the 1950s, struggles in the late 1960s with their memory, his sister's breakdown and his own anger, in Doctorow's novel based on the Rosenberg case.
Lessons
Roland Baines's whole life, from a boarding school where a piano teacher abuses him to decades of love, loss and compromise across Cold War Europe, in McEwan's most autobiographical novel.
Billy Bathgate
A boy in 1930s New York enters the orbit of the gangster Dutch Schultz and discovers that the underworld's glamour conceals a machinery of violence.
Underworld
A panoramic Cold War novel that begins with a lost baseball and Bobby Thomson's home run and spirals through decades of American paranoia, waste, and longing.
American Tabloid
Three men, an FBI agent, his protégé and a mob enforcer, move through the Bay of Pigs, the Mafia and the Kennedys' rise in the years before Dallas, in Ellroy's paranoid epic.
Patsy
Patsy, a young woman in Kingston, leaves her five-year-old daughter, Tru, with the girl's father and goes to New York on a tourist visa, hoping to find Cicely, the friend she has loved since childhood.
The Dragon Can't Dance
In Calvary Hill, a hillside slum in Port of Spain, Aldrick Prospect spends all year making his dragon costume for Carnival, while his neighbours look for their own ways to matter.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A novel in linked chapters that leaps through decades and forms, one of them a PowerPoint presentation, following a record executive, his kleptomaniac assistant and the people around them as time changes everything.
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Two Cuban brothers, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, come to New York in 1949 to play mambo, and their brush with fame on I Love Lucy echoes through Cesar's memories decades later.