Billy Bathgate

by E. L. Doctorow

Published 11 September 1989
In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left them long ago,...Read more

Book of Daniel

by E. L. Doctorow

Published 17 February 1972
The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to...Read more

Lives of the Poets

by E. L. Doctorow

Published 1 April 1985

Loon Lake

by E. L. Doctorow

Published October 1980
It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes...Read more

Ragtime

by E. L. Doctorow

Published December 1976
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and...Read more

World's Fair

by E. L. Doctorow

Published 9 December 1986