The Books of New York City

Books set in NYC that depict various time periods, historical events, and the poeople living through them.
Updated September 19, 2022
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Paper Book
One of Wharton's most famous novels-the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize-exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York. Newland Archer, an aristocratic young lawyer, is engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. But...
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E. L. Konigsburg
Ebook
New York City girl Claudia, a mere month shy of being a twelve-year-old, has resolved to run away from home with her younger brother, Jamie. She knows that she could never pull off the classic spur-of-the-moment departure without a destination (inevitably involving having to eat outside with the...
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
Paper Book
J. D. Salinger wrote one of the most famous books ever written, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger wrote many stories and, in 1941, after several rejections, Salinger finally cracked The New Yorker, with a story, "Slight Rebellion Off Madison," that was an early sketch of what became a scene in "The...
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION Theo Decker, aged thirteen, is left alone in the world after surviving a catastrophe that kills his only close relative - his mother - and tears him away from everything he knows. Tormented by grief, drifting from home to home,...
Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín
Ebook
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
Paper Book
'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her...
City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert
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...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
Paper Book
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting...

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