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Must-Read New York City Books

New York City: The Big Apple, The Center of the Universe, the City of Dreams, the City That Never Sleeps, the City So Nice, They Named it Twice (and more). Everyone has a different take on this bustling, diverse city. From the intimate jazz bars of Greenwich Village to the vibrant streets of Harlem, the dazzling lights of the Theater District to the quiet brownstones of Brooklyn; this city has something for everybody! Get to know it a little better by taking one of these books out on the town.

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    Fleishman Is in Trouble

    by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

    Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated. He could not have predicted that one day, Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and simply not return. As Toby tries to figure out where Rachel went, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen things all that clearly in the first place. A searing, utterly unvarnished debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an insightful, unsettling, often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of our great wariness and our great hope.
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    Harlem Shuffle

    by Colson Whitehead

    Harlem Shuffle’s ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It’s a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.
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    Sweetbitter

    by Stephanie Danler

    Stephanie Danler’s stunning debut novel introduces us to Tess, a 22-year-old recent transplant to New York City. Arriving with no job prospects lined up, she scrambles just to find a job as a lowly back-waiter. This job happens to be at one of the most renowned restaurants in the city, though, and Tess is quickly consumed by the lush and sensual food world of New York (as well as the alluring bartender and the electrifying senior server). Part love-story, part growing-up tale, and part foodie’s-paradise—grab a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon (or other wine of choice) and enjoy!
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    I Have Lost My Way

    by Gayle Forman

    A fateful accident draws three strangers together over the course of a single day. As the day progresses, their secrets start to unravel and they begin to understand that the way out of their own loss might just lie in helping the others out of theirs. An emotionally cathartic story of losing love, finding love, and discovering the person you are meant to be.
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    City on Fire

    by Garth Risk Hallberg

    Told through the multiple perspectives of interweaving lives, Hallberg creates a grand vision of New York in the 1970s, centered around a shooting in Central Park and the blackout of 1977. These characters range from wealthy heirs, teenage punk wannabes, a magazine reporter, detective, neighbors and lovers. How they are connected, and what they all have to do with the shooting is a story that cannot be missed.
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    The Life of the Mind

    by Christine Smallwood

    Piercingly intelligent and darkly funny, The Life of the Mind is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.
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    Invisible Man

    by Ralph Ellison

    After being expelled from a Southern Negro college in the 1930s, the nameless narrator of Invisible Man moves to Harlem, hoping there he will find acceptance. What he finds, however, is just a different version of the prejudice and anger that he left behind. His search for identity and acceptance, delivered in a witty, passionate and at times, heartbreaking prose, will stay with you long after you read this.
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    Open City

    by Teju Cole

    Wandering along the streets of New York City after a breakup with his girlfriend, Nigerian psychiatry resident Julius reflects on this vast city he calls home. His thoughts are interrupted occasionally by the odd encounter with someone else on the street, sparking conversations on topics from Alexander Hamilton to his own past. His own personal journey resonates with feelings of both dislocation and hope, and his meandering thoughts pull us along this moving narrative.
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    Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares

    by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

    Lily left a red notebook full of challenges on her favorite bookstore self, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. Dash happens to be the first guy to pick up the notebook and rise to its challenges. What follows is a whirlwind romance, but can their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions?
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    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

    by Michael Chabon

    Brooklyn, 1930s and 40s. The Second World War is in full swing, but so is the comic book craze, and Joe Kavalier—escape artist, magician and artist—and his cousin Sammy Clay are determined to make their mark on the genre. Their tales of the Escapist and Luna Moth, fighting against the Axis Powers and Hitler himself, will do more than just entertain the masses. This is a great American novel like no other.
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    The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick

    by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

    In her twenties, Belle de Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society, but she must also hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation.
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    A Little Life

    by Hanya Yanagihara

    After graduating from college, these four friends moved to New York with the intention of pursuing their dreams. As the years go by, and their lives change, for better and worse, what keeps them together is their fierce attachment to Jude. Jude’s traumatic past, while over, is far from letting him go. A powerfully emotional novel that will bring you to tears, it is also a celebration of the bonds of friendship in this anonymous city.
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    Names of New York

    by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

    In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods.
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    Jazz

    by Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison composes a riveting, immersive work in this story of 1920s Harlem. When door-to-door salesman Joe and his wife Violet moved from the rural South to New York, everything seemed grand—until the day he shoots his teenage mistress, and Violet attacks her corpse at the funeral in a moment of passion. Weaving in and out of the present, Morrison’s novel illustrates the complexities of life for black New Yorkers in the ‘20s.
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    Breakfast at Tiffany’s

    by Truman Capote

    One of the most iconic novels of midcentury New York (thanks in part to Audrey Hepburn’s fabulous portrayal of Holly Golightly in the film version), this novel will make you want to head over to 5th Ave and pop into Tiffany’s, where nothing bad can happen. Glamorous, whimsical, yet thoughtful and moving, too—you won’t want to miss out on the original telling of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
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    Isla and the Happily Ever After

    by Stephanie Perkins

    From the glittering streets of Manhattan to the moonlit rooftops of Paris, falling in love is easy for hopeless dreamer Isla and introspective artist Josh. But Isla and Josh are quickly forced to confront the heartbreaking reality that happily-ever-afters aren’t always forever.
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    The Darlings

    by Cristina Alger

    Since he married Merrill Darling, daughter of billionaire financier Carter Darling, attorney Paul Ross has grown accustomed to all the luxuries of Park Avenue. But a tragic event is about to catapult the Darling family into the middle of a massive financial investigation and a red-hot scandal. Suddenly, Paul must decide where his loyalties really lie.
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    City of Girls

    by Elizabeth Gilbert

    Elizabeth Gilbert tells a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.
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    Modern Love, Revised and Updated

    by Daniel Jones

    The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column. This is the perfect book for anyone who’s loved, lost, stalked an ex on social media, or pined for true romance: In other words, anyone interested in the endlessly complicated workings of the human heart.
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    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    by James Baldwin

    James Baldwin’s first major novel chronicles a single day in a sweeping, thought-provoking self-reflection of fourteen-year-old John Grimes. Grimes lives in Harlem, the stepson of a Pentecostal storefront church minister. While his stepfather preaches, he thinks about the hypocrisies in their lives, the trials they’ve faced, and what it means for his identity.
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    The Sun Is Also a Star

    by Nicola Yoon

    Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true? The bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other in New York City!
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    M Train

    by Patti Smith

    Starting out in a cozy, Greenwich Village café, Patti Smith grounds her second memoir firmly in New York City, but expands it outwards as she reflects on her travels over the years, the losses she’s had, and the many wonderful experiences she’s been through. Interspersed with photographs and eloquently written, M Train is a beautiful memoir to behold.
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    Native Speaker

    by Chang-rae Lee

    Henry Park is no stranger to the feeling of having multiple identities. He is of Korean descent, but he grew up in New York. He started off in a working-class family in Flushing, Queens, but his father’s booming grocery store chain let them move to the more affluent suburbs. He is also a spy for the United States, with all of the identities that brings. When his next assignment is to spy on a Korean-American politician, he comes face to face with his various identities, and must reconcile them in order to move forward.
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    The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A GMA Book Club Pick

    by Fiona Davis

    In bestselling author Fiona Davis’s latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces.
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    Washington Square

    by Henry James

    Catherine Sloper is fairly average. Mild, plain-faced, no great intelligence to speak of. One thing that sets her apart, though, is her family’s vast fortune, to which she is the heiress. When she receives a marriage proposal, her father is convinced that the man is after her money. While her father will stop at nothing to end the engagement, Catherine’s aunt wants to use the engagement to fuel her own selfish need for drama. Catherine must navigate her world carefully, as the New York societal fetters can be binding.
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    When I Ran Away

    by Ilona Bannister

    A rich, bighearted debut that takes us from working-class Staten Island in the wake of the September 11th attacks to moneyed London a decade later. Startlingly honest and shot through with unexpected humor, When I Ran Away is an unforgettable novel about love—for our partners, our children, our mothers, and ourselves—pushed to its outer limits.
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    Survive the Night

    by Danielle Vega

    Stephen King meets Pretty Little Liars in this pulse-pounding novel from the author of The Merciless. When a rave in the New York City subway tunnels goes horribly wrong, three friends must stick together to survive the night.
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    The Beautiful and Damned

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    While you may know Fitzgerald from reading The Great Gatsby in your high school English class (or watching the Baz Luhrmann film with Leonardo DiCaprio), this lesser known work of his is just as engrossing, if not more so. Anthony and Gloria are living the good life as a newly married couple in Manhattan, dining at expensive restaurants, going to private parties, and avoiding all responsibility. Unfortunately for them, Anthony’s wealthy uncle, who’s fortune he is meant to inherit, refuses to die anytime soon. As their money dwindles, so does their lavish lifestyle, and the cracks in their relationship and themselves begin to be revealed.
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    In the Heights

    by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Jeremy McCarter

    The eagerly awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new book gives readers an extraordinary inside look at In the Heights, his breakout Broadway debut, written with Quiara Alegría Hudes, now a Hollywood blockbuster.
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    Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Hernan Diaz

    Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.  Hernan Diaz’s Trust elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another — and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction.
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    Motherless Brooklyn

    by Jonathan Lethem

    Working in Brooklyn as hired help for gangster Frank Minna, Tourette’s-suffering orphan, Lionel Essrog has a challenging life. It gets harder, however, when Frank is stabbed to death, and a colleague (and fellow former member of St. Vincent’s Home for Boys), is jailed for the crime. It’s up to Lionel to solve the case, and to do so, he must contend with his own compulsions and tics, which may be of more help than he realizes.
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    My Epic Spring Break (Up)

    by Kristin Rockaway

    A fun and upbeat paperback original romance about a girl who finds a cheat sheet for love. Will coder extraordinaire Ashley’s epic spring break in New York lead her to love, or will her heart crash and burn?
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    Down These Mean Streets

    by Piri Thomas

    In this raw, piercing memoir, Puerto Rican Piri Thomas writes of his youth growing up in Spanish Harlem. As he becomes more deeply embroiled in drugs and street crime, we see how his circumstances played a part in the difficult, and at times violent, choices he made, resulting in his arrest and imprisonment. Approaching this memoir with self-acceptance and understanding, Piri Thomas brings hope to a life of hardship.
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    Fierce Poise

    by Alexander Nemerov

    A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century’s most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York. Fierce Poise is an exhilarating ride through New York’s 1950s art scene and a brilliant portrait of a young artist through the moments that shaped her.
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    The Godfather

    by Mario Puzo

    You may have seen the brilliant film adaptation from Francis Ford Coppola, but have you read the book that started it all? Mario Puzo’s classic tale of New York City’s Mafia underworld is thrilling, bloody, and engrossing. Read about the powerful Corleone family as they come up against their enemies in the name of honor, vengeance, and family. Blood is thicker than water, after all.
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    The Assistants

    by Camille Perri

    A tiny mistake, an “accidentally” deposited check, and the click of a button is all it takes for executive assistant Tina Fontana to fall down the rabbit hole of corporate embezzlement. What’s a small student loan compared to the profit of a massive New York City media corporation? Wishful thinking and worst nightmare combine in this wry, witty novel of the modern-day assistant.
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    Passing

    by Nella Larsen

    Set in 1920s Harlem, Passing is about two light-skinned African American women, one who has stayed with the black community in Harlem, and the other who has married a white man with no knowledge of her lineage. When the two meet again in Chicago after years apart, the careful threads that hold their lives together begin to unravel.
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    Angel & Hannah

    by Ishle Yi Park

    In this reimagining of Romeo and Juliet, Hannah, A Korean American girl from Queens and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in 1990s New York City and are determined to protect their love against all odds.
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    Veronica

    by Mary Gaitskill

    Looking back on her life, Allison begins this story in 1980s New York: a time of glitz, glamour, and shoulder pads. Allison’s modeling career is falling apart when she meets the older, HIV+ office worker, Veronica. Spanning decades and, at times, continents, Allison tells us how their unlikely friendship came to be, and what happened to them over the years.
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    Great Jones Street

    by Don DeLillo

    Though perhaps one of DeLillo’s lesser-known novels, Great Jones Street evokes New York at a singular time and place. Rock star idol Bucky abruptly leaves his band while on tour after determining they’ve peaked to hide away in a little apartment in the grungy East Village. Although he tries to escape the society his music has helped create, he just keeps coming up against the paradoxes and hypocrisies of living creatively within the system.
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    Rules of Civility

    by Amor Towles

    While Katey Kontent starts off as a secretary on Wall Street, she soon starts climbing the social ladder of 1930s New York after a chance meeting with a blue-eyed banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar. With newly-found access to the offices of Conde Nast and friends in high places, Katey is bound for social success. But getting to the upper echelons is one thing; staying there, amidst the ambition, the greed, and the betrayals, is another.
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    Bright Lights, Big City

    by Jay McInerney

    This novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.
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