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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 526,454 ratings — published 1943
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.21 — 372,313 ratings — published 2010
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,070,782 ratings — published 1925
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,069,985 ratings — published 2013
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,973,704 ratings — published 1951
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,814 ratings — published 1974
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 278,247 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.27 — 983,517 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.59 — 601,255 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 201,582 ratings — published 1920
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.85 — 255,362 ratings — published 1958
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,283,402 ratings — published 1963
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.19 — 215,616 ratings — published 2000
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.96 — 111,362 ratings — published 2009
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,696 ratings — published 1948
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,142 ratings — published 2020
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 88,946 ratings — published 1987
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 328,737 ratings — published 2019
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 438,646 ratings — published 2005
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,894 ratings — published 1998
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.33 — 79,826 ratings — published 2016
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 221,414 ratings — published 1967
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.75 — 166,486 ratings — published 2009
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,086 ratings — published 1984
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.06 — 183,472 ratings — published 1994
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.87 — 137,674 ratings — published 2018
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.98 — 108,268 ratings — published 1905
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,028 ratings — published 1999
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 79 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,169 ratings — published 1987
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,649,379 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,593,116 ratings — published 2020
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.70 — 254,167 ratings — published 2010
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,798 ratings — published 2004
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.88 — 294,600 ratings — published 2021
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.78 — 672,857 ratings — published 2020
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.73 — 83,436 ratings — published 2021
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,827 ratings — published 2016
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 375,497 ratings — published 1991
The Colossus of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,569 ratings — published 2003
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,080 ratings — published 2016
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,299 ratings — published 2016
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,660 ratings — published 1991
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,002 ratings — published 2013
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,324 ratings — published 1992
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,100 ratings — published 1972
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.84 — 33,886 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,499 ratings — published 1952
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.82 — 947,221 ratings — published 2003
“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
“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")”
― Long After Midnight
― Long After Midnight
