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New York Books
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 532 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,991,827 ratings — published 1925
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 488 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 518,826 ratings — published 1943
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 408 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,931,118 ratings — published 1951
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 387 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.09 — 274,498 ratings — published 2011
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 349 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,053,907 ratings — published 2013
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 317 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.21 — 362,726 ratings — published 2010
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 198,691 ratings — published 1920
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.27 — 955,008 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.60 — 581,643 ratings — published 2018
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.85 — 253,425 ratings — published 1958
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 274 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 436,827 ratings — published 2005
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 262 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.75 — 163,225 ratings — published 2009
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,252,189 ratings — published 1963
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.96 — 110,732 ratings — published 2009
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,886 ratings — published 1974
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.19 — 214,085 ratings — published 2000
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,588 ratings — published 1948
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.98 — 106,950 ratings — published 1905
New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.20 — 44,588 ratings — published 2009
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 202 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 88,032 ratings — published 1987
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.16 — 220,235 ratings — published 1967
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.04 — 324,734 ratings — published 2019
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.06 — 182,368 ratings — published 1994
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 179,598 ratings — published 2022
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.93 — 87,931 ratings — published 1987
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,502 ratings — published 1984
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,179 ratings — published 2020
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,066 ratings — published 2013
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.73 — 81,693 ratings — published 2021
Manhattan Beach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.61 — 91,920 ratings — published 2017
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,867 ratings — published 1998
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.05 — 234,502 ratings — published 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,551,392 ratings — published 2020
The Lions of Fifth Avenue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,315 ratings — published 2020
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,480 ratings — published 2016
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,827 ratings — published 1999
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.84 — 33,542 ratings — published 2017
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,634 ratings — published 2004
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.88 — 134,194 ratings — published 2018
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 368,949 ratings — published 1991
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.70 — 251,664 ratings — published 2010
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.33 — 79,326 ratings — published 2016
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.88 — 290,324 ratings — published 2021
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,184 ratings — published 2016
The Nest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.41 — 182,791 ratings — published 2016
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,064 ratings — published 2016
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.78 — 659,851 ratings — published 2020
The Woman in the Window (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 118 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.94 — 895,989 ratings — published 2018
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,598,894 ratings — published 2022
Deacon King Kong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.16 — 81,647 ratings — published 2020
“The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.”
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
“That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.”
― If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
― If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
