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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 515,007 ratings — published 1943
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,948,491 ratings — published 1925
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.21 — 357,333 ratings — published 2010
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,046,149 ratings — published 2013
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,909,747 ratings — published 1951
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,423 ratings — published 1974
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,375 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.28 — 939,127 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.60 — 571,018 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 196,918 ratings — published 1920
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,234,167 ratings — published 1963
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.85 — 252,434 ratings — published 1958
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.96 — 110,400 ratings — published 2009
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.19 — 213,323 ratings — published 2000
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,521 ratings — published 1948
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.84 — 78,670 ratings — published 2020
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 435,881 ratings — published 2005
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 322,626 ratings — published 2019
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,847 ratings — published 1998
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 87,543 ratings — published 1987
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.33 — 79,055 ratings — published 2016
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 219,634 ratings — published 1967
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.75 — 161,193 ratings — published 2009
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.06 — 181,834 ratings — published 1994
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,239 ratings — published 1984
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.88 — 132,349 ratings — published 2018
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,666 ratings — published 1999
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.98 — 106,332 ratings — published 1905
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,543 ratings — published 2004
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 364,905 ratings — published 1991
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,524,001 ratings — published 2020
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 87,378 ratings — published 1987
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,572,644 ratings — published 2022
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.70 — 250,391 ratings — published 2010
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.88 — 287,659 ratings — published 2021
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,153 ratings — published 2016
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,801 ratings — published 2016
The Colossus of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,429 ratings — published 2003
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.78 — 652,678 ratings — published 2020
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.87 — 41,913 ratings — published 2016
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.73 — 80,967 ratings — published 2021
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,619 ratings — published 1991
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.13 — 131,573 ratings — published 2013
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.84 — 33,251 ratings — published 2017
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,268 ratings — published 1992
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,636 ratings — published 1952
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.82 — 937,664 ratings — published 2003
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,691 ratings — published 1972
“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














