102 books
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 520,060 ratings — published 1943
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,005,227 ratings — published 1925
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.21 — 364,506 ratings — published 2010
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,940,764 ratings — published 1951
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,056,857 ratings — published 2013
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,043 ratings — published 1974
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 275,201 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.27 — 960,281 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.60 — 585,275 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 199,185 ratings — published 1920
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,257,803 ratings — published 1963
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.85 — 253,774 ratings — published 1958
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.96 — 110,821 ratings — published 2009
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.19 — 214,376 ratings — published 2000
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,606 ratings — published 1948
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,334 ratings — published 2020
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,872 ratings — published 1998
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 437,214 ratings — published 2005
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 88,102 ratings — published 1987
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 325,496 ratings — published 2019
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.33 — 79,423 ratings — published 2016
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 220,421 ratings — published 1967
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.75 — 163,833 ratings — published 2009
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,599 ratings — published 1984
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.06 — 182,541 ratings — published 1994
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.88 — 134,866 ratings — published 2018
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.98 — 107,144 ratings — published 1905
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,861 ratings — published 1999
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 88,236 ratings — published 1987
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,664 ratings — published 2004
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,607,067 ratings — published 2022
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.88 — 291,013 ratings — published 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,559,196 ratings — published 2020
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.70 — 252,099 ratings — published 2010
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 370,377 ratings — published 1991
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.78 — 661,965 ratings — published 2020
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,277 ratings — published 2016
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,587 ratings — published 2016
The Colossus of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,498 ratings — published 2003
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.73 — 82,009 ratings — published 2021
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,107 ratings — published 2016
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,636 ratings — published 1991
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,228 ratings — published 2013
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,284 ratings — published 1992
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.84 — 33,612 ratings — published 2017
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,870 ratings — published 1972
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,016 ratings — published 1952
Open City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.49 — 17,636 ratings — published 2011
“falafel joint, jazz joint, gyro joint, corner. Schoolyard, creperie, realtor, corner. Tenement, tenement, tenement museum, corner. Pink Pony, Blind Tiger, muffin boutique, corner. Sex shop, tea shop, synagogue, corner. Bollywood, Buddha, botanica, corner. Leather outlet, leather outlet, leather outlet, corner. Bar, school, bar, school. People's Park, corner. Tyson mural, Celia Cruz mural, Ladi Di mural, corner. Bling shop, barbershop, car service corner.”
― Lush Life
― Lush Life
“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














