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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.31 — 532,294 ratings — published 1943
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,131,010 ratings — published 1925
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.21 — 380,260 ratings — published 2010
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,081,191 ratings — published 2013
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,006,319 ratings — published 1951
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,469 ratings — published 1974
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 280,602 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,006,261 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.59 — 618,502 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 203,816 ratings — published 1920
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,309,592 ratings — published 1963
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.85 — 256,883 ratings — published 1958
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.19 — 216,694 ratings — published 2000
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.96 — 111,877 ratings — published 2009
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,802 ratings — published 1948
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,891 ratings — published 2020
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 89,390 ratings — published 1987
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 331,523 ratings — published 2019
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 439,847 ratings — published 2005
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,917 ratings — published 1998
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.33 — 80,206 ratings — published 2016
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 222,108 ratings — published 1967
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.75 — 168,966 ratings — published 2009
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,402 ratings — published 1984
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.06 — 184,828 ratings — published 1994
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.87 — 139,902 ratings — published 2018
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.98 — 109,119 ratings — published 1905
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,179 ratings — published 1999
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,684,398 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,621,816 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 79 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,936 ratings — published 2004
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 79 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,038 ratings — published 1987
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,353 ratings — published 2021
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.70 — 255,935 ratings — published 2010
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.88 — 297,557 ratings — published 2021
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.78 — 682,011 ratings — published 2020
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 36,334 ratings — published 2016
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 381,075 ratings — published 1991
The Colossus of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.68 — 4,656 ratings — published 2003
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,456 ratings — published 2016
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,501 ratings — published 2016
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,677 ratings — published 1991
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,689 ratings — published 2013
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,266 ratings — published 1972
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.84 — 34,155 ratings — published 2017
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,370 ratings — published 1992
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,598 ratings — published 1952
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.82 — 951,546 ratings — published 2003
“I love Israel, I go back all the time. I just love New York a little more. My workers are Arabs, my best friend is a black man from Alabama, my girlfriend's a Puerto Rican, and my landlord is a half-Jew bastard. You know what I did this morning? I read in the paper yesterday that the circus is setting up in the Madison Square Garden, they said the elephants would be walking through the Holland Tunnel at dawn. I'm a photographer a little too, you know? So I get up at five o'clock, bike over to the tunnel, and wait. It turns out the paper got it wrong, they came through the Lincoln, but still, you know? This is a hell of a place.”
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“Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues going east-west, all you knew of the sunset was a darkening in the air. No wonder people in New York were so unbalanced. They were totally untouched by the rhythms of nature. You were only aware of nature when something extreme happened, like a snowstorm or heatwave.”
― Rapture
― Rapture
