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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 545 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,086,888 ratings — published 1925
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 497 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 528,090 ratings — published 1943
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,981,995 ratings — published 1951
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 387 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.09 — 278,654 ratings — published 2011
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 356 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,072,975 ratings — published 2013
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 322 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.21 — 374,227 ratings — published 2010
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 202,150 ratings — published 1920
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.59 — 605,638 ratings — published 2018
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.27 — 989,252 ratings — published 2015
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.85 — 255,781 ratings — published 1958
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 438,941 ratings — published 2005
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 264 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.75 — 167,209 ratings — published 2009
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,289,964 ratings — published 1963
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,982 ratings — published 1974
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.96 — 111,485 ratings — published 2009
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.19 — 215,895 ratings — published 2000
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,719 ratings — published 1948
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.98 — 108,494 ratings — published 1905
New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.20 — 45,211 ratings — published 2009
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 203 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,379 ratings — published 1987
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.04 — 329,525 ratings — published 2019
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.16 — 221,628 ratings — published 1967
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.79 — 188,261 ratings — published 2022
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.93 — 89,152 ratings — published 1987
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 178 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.06 — 183,927 ratings — published 1994
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,176 ratings — published 1984
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.73 — 83,786 ratings — published 2021
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,354 ratings — published 2020
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 160 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,218 ratings — published 2013
Manhattan Beach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.61 — 92,507 ratings — published 2017
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,901 ratings — published 1998
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.04 — 243,404 ratings — published 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,601,367 ratings — published 2020
The Lions of Fifth Avenue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.90 — 86,903 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 142 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,843 ratings — published 2004
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,207 ratings — published 2016
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,073 ratings — published 1999
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.84 — 33,964 ratings — published 2017
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.87 — 138,312 ratings — published 2018
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.70 — 254,638 ratings — published 2010
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 376,722 ratings — published 1991
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.33 — 79,920 ratings — published 2016
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.88 — 295,514 ratings — published 2021
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,980 ratings — published 2016
The Nest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.41 — 184,328 ratings — published 2016
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.78 — 675,732 ratings — published 2020
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,352 ratings — published 2016
The Woman in the Window (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 119 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.93 — 908,520 ratings — published 2018
Deacon King Kong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.16 — 83,008 ratings — published 2020
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,659,534 ratings — published 2022
“I was near-delirious. Gazing up at the pillared skyline, I knew that I was surveying a tremendous work of man. Buying myself a drink in the smaller warrens below, in all their ethnic variety (and willingness to keep odd and late hours, and provide plentiful ice cubes, and free matchbooks in contrast to English parsimony in these matters), I felt the same thing in a different way. The balance between the macro and the micro, the heroic scale and the human scale, has never since ceased to fascinate and charm me. Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in that air which made one think—made me think for many years—that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Money talks and bullshit walks in New York. In a lot of cities, probably—but here, the nation’s shrine to unrestricted predatory capitalism, money has nearly talismanic power. Which means that he can use it as a talisman.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
