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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.31 — 536,495 ratings — published 1943
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,170,896 ratings — published 1925
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.21 — 386,565 ratings — published 2010
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,090,260 ratings — published 2013
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,028,110 ratings — published 1951
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.53 — 32,162 ratings — published 1974
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 282,395 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,022,055 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.58 — 629,764 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.98 — 205,454 ratings — published 1920
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,328,577 ratings — published 1963
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.85 — 258,031 ratings — published 1958
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.19 — 217,422 ratings — published 2000
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,251 ratings — published 2009
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,877 ratings — published 1948
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.83 — 81,335 ratings — published 2020
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 89,858 ratings — published 1987
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,928 ratings — published 1998
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 440,978 ratings — published 2005
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 333,446 ratings — published 2019
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.33 — 80,461 ratings — published 2016
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 222,681 ratings — published 1967
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,687 ratings — published 1984
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.75 — 170,564 ratings — published 2009
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.06 — 185,537 ratings — published 1994
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,904 ratings — published 2018
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.98 — 109,824 ratings — published 1905
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,291 ratings — published 1999
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.73 — 86,860 ratings — published 2021
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,010 ratings — published 2004
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,704,524 ratings — published 2022
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 79 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,717 ratings — published 1987
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,643,083 ratings — published 2020
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.70 — 257,149 ratings — published 2010
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 37,875 ratings — published 2016
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.77 — 687,065 ratings — published 2020
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 384,790 ratings — published 1991
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.88 — 299,644 ratings — published 2021
The Colossus of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,722 ratings — published 2003
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,583 ratings — published 2016
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,944 ratings — published 2016
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,690 ratings — published 1991
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,263 ratings — published 2013
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.84 — 34,320 ratings — published 2017
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,417 ratings — published 1972
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.82 — 954,219 ratings — published 2003
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,379 ratings — published 1992
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,467 ratings — published 1952
“But they were New Yorkers, and the essence of the New York character is to mind your own business and let other people mind theirs.”
― Firestarter
― Firestarter
“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
