Five books that are also love-letters to American cities

At The Amazon Book Review editor Erin Kodicek tagged five "great reads that also serve as love letters to the US cities in which they take place," including:

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

New Orleans

One of the greatest comic novels of all time, A Confederacy of Dunces finds its delightful antihero, Ignatius J. Reilly, the “Don Quixote of the French Quarter,” wandering the streets of New Orleans and pontificating on the profound, but mostly the inane. And looking for a job. A fittingly offbeat, and occasionally melancholy, love letter to the Big Easy.

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Ignatius Reilly is on Jeff Somers's list of five of the greatest, dumbest characters in literary history, Ginni Chen's top six list of fictional mustaches, Melissa Albert's list of six of the worst fictional characters to sit next to on a plane and Jill Boyd's list of five of the worst fictional characters to invite to Thanksgiving. A Confederacy of Dunces is among Peter Mann's six titles with charming, workshy anti-heroes, Nicole Holofcener’s ten desert island books, Chrissie Gruebel's top eleven books that will make you glad you're single, Christian Rudder's six favorite books, the Telegraph's critics' fifty best cult books, Melissa Albert's eight favorite fictional misfits, Ken Jennings's eight notable books about parents and kids, Sarah Stodol's top ten lost-then-found novels, Hallie Ephron's top ten books for a good laugh, Stephen Kelman's top 10 outsiders' stories, John Mullan's ten best moustaches in literature, Michael Lewis's five favorite books, and Cracked magazine's classic funny novels.

--Marshal Zeringue