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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 528 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,888,034 ratings — published 1925
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 482 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 510,807 ratings — published 1943
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 405 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,880,218 ratings — published 1951
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 382 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.09 — 269,849 ratings — published 2011
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 346 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,036,428 ratings — published 2013
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.21 — 350,741 ratings — published 2010
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,090 ratings — published 1920
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.28 — 918,436 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.60 — 558,886 ratings — published 2018
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 434,763 ratings — published 2005
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,238 ratings — published 1958
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,212,264 ratings — published 1963
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 257 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.74 — 159,013 ratings — published 2009
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.96 — 109,959 ratings — published 2009
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,410 ratings — published 2000
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.53 — 28,937 ratings — published 1974
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,419 ratings — published 1948
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.98 — 105,637 ratings — published 1905
New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,054 ratings — published 2009
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 197 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 86,649 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 — 218,937 ratings — published 1967
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.04 — 320,190 ratings — published 2019
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.06 — 181,230 ratings — published 1994
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 171,467 ratings — published 2022
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.81 — 36,983 ratings — published 1984
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.92 — 86,889 ratings — published 1987
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.84 — 78,154 ratings — published 2020
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.73 — 80,291 ratings — published 2021
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.13 — 131,074 ratings — published 2013
Manhattan Beach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.61 — 91,303 ratings — published 2017
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,830 ratings — published 1998
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.05 — 225,303 ratings — published 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,488,506 ratings — published 2020
The Lions of Fifth Avenue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.90 — 81,794 ratings — published 2020
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,802 ratings — published 2016
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,540 ratings — published 1999
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,940 ratings — published 2017
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 360,682 ratings — published 1991
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,448 ratings — published 2004
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.70 — 248,907 ratings — published 2010
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.88 — 130,076 ratings — published 2018
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.87 — 41,767 ratings — published 2016
The Nest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.41 — 181,679 ratings — published 2016
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.33 — 78,765 ratings — published 2016
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,432 ratings — published 2016
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,539,259 ratings — published 2022
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.89 — 284,691 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in the Window (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 117 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.94 — 883,162 ratings — published 2018
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.78 — 643,080 ratings — published 2020
Deacon King Kong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.16 — 80,368 ratings — published 2020
“Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the Palestinian blend of Marshal Petaín and Papa Doc.' But the main problem, alas, remained the same. In Edward's moral universe, Arafat could at last be named as a thug and a practitioner of corruption and extortion. But he could only be identified as such to the extent that he was now and at last aligned with an American design. Thus the only truly unpardonable thing about 'The Chairman' was his readiness to appear on the White House lawn with Yitzhak Rabin and Bill Clinton in 1993. I have real knowledge and memory of this, because George Stephanopoulos—whose father's Orthodox church in Ohio and New York had kept him in touch with what was still a predominantly Christian Arab-American opinion—called me more than once from the White House to help beseech Edward to show up at the event. 'The feedback we get from Arab-American voters is this: If it's such a great idea, why isn't Said signing off on it?' When I called him, Edward was grudging and crabby. 'The old man [Arafat] has no right to sign away land.' Really? Then what had the Algiers deal been all about? How could two states come into being without mutual concessions on territory?”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.
Wait—Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor declare, during his re-election campaign, that 'we have billions in surplus'? Yes, it was, and yes, he did. But reality has now intruded, in the form of a deficit expected to run as high as $25 billion over the next two years.
And that reality has implications for the nation as a whole. For Texas is where the modern conservative theory of budgeting—the belief that you should never raise taxes under any circumstances, that you can always balance the budget by cutting wasteful spending—has been implemented most completely. If the theory can't make it there, it can't make it anywhere.”
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Wait—Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor declare, during his re-election campaign, that 'we have billions in surplus'? Yes, it was, and yes, he did. But reality has now intruded, in the form of a deficit expected to run as high as $25 billion over the next two years.
And that reality has implications for the nation as a whole. For Texas is where the modern conservative theory of budgeting—the belief that you should never raise taxes under any circumstances, that you can always balance the budget by cutting wasteful spending—has been implemented most completely. If the theory can't make it there, it can't make it anywhere.”
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