The Gilded Hour historical reading list (22 books)

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Books to read after The Gilded Hour, recommended by Sara Donati

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1	The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne de Courcy 3.62 avg rating — 4,070 ratings score: 298, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 8,855 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine by Susan Wells 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 13,681 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900 by Julie Husband 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age (Washington Mews Books) by Cecelia Tichi (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 268 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930 by Donna R. Gabaccia 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Lights and shadows of New York life by James Dabney McCabe 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	New York City in the Gilded Age by Esther Crain (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 356 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century by Thomas Beer 3.29 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 1,395 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Encyclopedia of New York City by Kenneth T. Jackson (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 169 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power by Claudia Renton 3.52 avg rating — 468 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age by Robert A.M. Stern 4.78 avg rating — 27 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Gilded: How Newport Became America's Richest Resort by Deborah Davis (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 796 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498 - 1909 : compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections by I.N. Phelps Stokes 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Newport Mansions: The Gilded Age by Richard Cheek 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Our Police Protectors: History of the New York Police (Patterson Smith Reprint Series in Criminology, Law Enforcement, and Social Problems. Publication No. 127) by Augustine E. Costello 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey 4.26 avg rating — 3,526 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America by G.J. Barker-Benfield 3.15 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America by Linda Gordon 4.18 avg rating — 108 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 by Timothy J. Gilfoyle 3.93 avg rating — 232 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars