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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.31 — 532,425 ratings — published 1943
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,132,368 ratings — published 1925
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.21 — 380,477 ratings — published 2010
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,081,476 ratings — published 2013
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,007,078 ratings — published 1951
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,488 ratings — published 1974
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 280,650 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,006,833 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.59 — 618,923 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 203,860 ratings — published 1920
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,310,238 ratings — published 1963
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,924 ratings — published 1958
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.19 — 216,716 ratings — published 2000
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.96 — 111,894 ratings — published 2009
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,804 ratings — published 1948
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,909 ratings — published 2020
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 89,397 ratings — published 1987
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 331,576 ratings — published 2019
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 439,864 ratings — published 2005
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,918 ratings — published 1998
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.33 — 80,214 ratings — published 2016
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 222,124 ratings — published 1967
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.75 — 169,014 ratings — published 2009
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,410 ratings — published 1984
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.06 — 184,849 ratings — published 1994
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.87 — 139,955 ratings — published 2018
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.98 — 109,141 ratings — published 1905
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,183 ratings — published 1999
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,685,097 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,622,474 ratings — published 2020
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,938 ratings — published 2004
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 79 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,066 ratings — published 1987
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,415 ratings — published 2021
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.70 — 255,969 ratings — published 2010
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.88 — 297,622 ratings — published 2021
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.78 — 682,178 ratings — published 2020
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 36,361 ratings — published 2016
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 381,204 ratings — published 1991
The Colossus of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.68 — 4,659 ratings — published 2003
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,459 ratings — published 2016
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,508 ratings — published 2016
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,677 ratings — published 1991
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,703 ratings — published 2013
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,269 ratings — published 1972
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.84 — 34,159 ratings — published 2017
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,371 ratings — published 1992
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,633 ratings — published 1952
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.82 — 951,650 ratings — published 2003
“Ms. Nomura, it's so big."
"What is?"
"The district. I'm mean, I got the park, the West Side, everything but the fancy buildings on Central Park West and Fifth Avenue."
"Well, East Harlem's interests and their interests are different."
"Don't everybody pretty much want the same things--jobs, good schools, and shit?"
"Yeah, but they don't want you in their neighborhood, much less having any say-so over their lives.”
― Tuff
"What is?"
"The district. I'm mean, I got the park, the West Side, everything but the fancy buildings on Central Park West and Fifth Avenue."
"Well, East Harlem's interests and their interests are different."
"Don't everybody pretty much want the same things--jobs, good schools, and shit?"
"Yeah, but they don't want you in their neighborhood, much less having any say-so over their lives.”
― Tuff
“The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos. (p.67)”
― Crowded Skies: Letters To Manhattan
― Crowded Skies: Letters To Manhattan
