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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 519 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,920,708 ratings — published 1925
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 484 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 512,678 ratings — published 1943
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,895,862 ratings — published 1951
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 382 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.09 — 271,076 ratings — published 2011
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 346 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,041,097 ratings — published 2013
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.21 — 353,932 ratings — published 2010
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 195,837 ratings — published 1920
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.28 — 928,579 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.60 — 564,691 ratings — published 2018
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 272 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.97 — 435,197 ratings — published 2005
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.85 — 251,752 ratings — published 1958
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,222,767 ratings — published 1963
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 257 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.75 — 160,048 ratings — published 2009
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.96 — 110,173 ratings — published 2009
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,142 ratings — published 1974
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,856 ratings — published 2000
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,469 ratings — published 1948
New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.20 — 44,198 ratings — published 2009
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.98 — 105,925 ratings — published 1905
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 198 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 87,009 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 — 219,271 ratings — published 1967
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.04 — 321,320 ratings — published 2019
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.06 — 181,493 ratings — published 1994
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 173,634 ratings — published 2022
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,102 ratings — published 1984
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.92 — 87,193 ratings — published 1987
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.84 — 78,375 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 — 131,299 ratings — published 2013
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.73 — 80,571 ratings — published 2021
Manhattan Beach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.61 — 91,484 ratings — published 2017
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,840 ratings — published 1998
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.05 — 227,449 ratings — published 2021
The Lions of Fifth Avenue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.90 — 82,427 ratings — published 2020
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,505,210 ratings — published 2020
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,967 ratings — published 2016
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,579 ratings — published 1999
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.84 — 33,094 ratings — published 2017
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 134 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.80 — 362,605 ratings — published 1991
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.70 — 249,592 ratings — published 2010
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,495 ratings — published 2004
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.88 — 131,148 ratings — published 2018
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.33 — 78,911 ratings — published 2016
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,619 ratings — published 2016
The Nest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.41 — 181,899 ratings — published 2016
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.87 — 41,840 ratings — published 2016
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.78 — 647,575 ratings — published 2020
The Woman in the Window (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 118 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.94 — 886,899 ratings — published 2018
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as new-york)
avg rating 3.89 — 286,094 ratings — published 2021
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,555,139 ratings — published 2022
Deacon King Kong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as new-york)
avg rating 4.16 — 80,662 ratings — published 2020
“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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“When exhilarating joy becomes soothing stillness, it can turn into inspiriting happiness after splintering the brilliance of its buoyancy and filling each pore of our being with bliss, freeing all the caged wishes of our dreams. ("New York at arm's length of desire")”
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