Open Books 2024: Books with an Urban Setting

Updated December 29, 2023
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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Paper Book
A Newbery Medal NomineeA Coretta Scott King Award NomineeAn ALA Top Ten Best BookAN ALA Notable Children's BookAn IRA Young Adult's ChoiceA New York Times Book Review Best BookEnter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad,...
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
Desmond, Matthew
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic "has set a...
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
Transport back to the 1920s jazz-era with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel about love, loss, greed, and envy, The Great Gatsby.
City of girls
Gilbert, Elizabeth
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A great holiday gift, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't...
The city we became
Jemisin, N. K.
Paper Book
An instant NYT Bestseller! Four-time Hugo Award-winning author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, the first book in The Great Cities Duology, a crackling tale of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New...
From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Konigsburg, E. L.
CD
When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere she wants to run to somewhere--to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and preferably elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowing that her...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
McBride, James
Paper Book
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the...
Ghetto cowboy : a novel
Neri, Greg.
Paper Book
Now a feature film, Concrete Cowboy, starring Idris Elba "Original in theme and inspirational in tone and content." -- Booklist From a Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor winner comes a street- smart tale about a displaced teen...
Fantasma
Reynolds, Jason
Paper Book
Finalista del Premio Nacional del Libro Para Literatura Joven (National Book Award for Young People's Literature) y nominada como una de las novelas más queridas de Estados Unidos por The Great American Read de PBS. Fantasma quiere ser uno de los corredores más veloces en su...
Paris the novel
Rutherfurd, Edward
CD
From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling, epic portrait of the City of Light Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the great achievements and travails throughout...

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