New York, New York
A Few Classics
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker
Set in the Nineteenth Century (or earlier)
City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan by Beverly Swerling
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Set in the Twentieth Century (first half)
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay
Murder Me Now by Annette Meyers
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
World’s Fair by E. L. Doctorow
Coney by Abraham Ducovny
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
Strivers Row by Kevin Baker
Set in the Twentieth Century (second half)
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
False Gods by Louis Auchincloss
Murder at City Hall by Edward I. Koch
Matthew Scudder mysteries by Lawrence Block
Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinones
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
Set in the Twenty-First Century (and Beyond)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Is New York Burning? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
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