Seriously.
I always have been, but this adoration only increased after finally taking my first trip(s) there!
So it should be no surprise that I love books about NYC. Since living there is not plausible for me at this time, I vicariously live there through books (and frequent trips)! So I dedicated an entire shelf (ever increasing) to books that specifically take place there and that encompass the city -- that define the city. Here's the original post I wrote about that. The books I have on this shelf are listed below alphabetically by title; the ones I've reviewed here are linked and will be updated with links as I go.
- The Astral by Kate Christensen
- The Ballad of West Tenth Street by Marjorie Kernan
- Bond Girl by Erin Duffy
- Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
- The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
- Brooklyn Was Mine edited by Chris Knutsen & Valerie Steiker
- The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
- Crossing Washington Square by Joanne Rendell
- The Darlings by Cristina Alger
- Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
- Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Falling Man by Don DeLillo
- The Finder by Colin Harrison
- Forever by Pete Hamill
- Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
- Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
- Gossip by Beth Gutcheon
- Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York by Ariel Sabar
- Island of Vice by Richard Zacks
- The Last Block in Harlem by Christopher Herz
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- Lightning People by Christopher Bollen
- Lowboy by John Wray
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- New York by Edward Rutherford
- The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine
- The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
- Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn by Alice Mattison
- Patches of Grey by Roy Pickering
- Prospect Park West by Amy Sohn
- Rage is Back by Adam Mansbach
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- The Submission by Amy Waldman
- Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
- Tabloid City by Pete Hamill
- The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard
- Wonderful Town: New York Short Stories from The New Yorker edited by David Remnick
- Zero by Jess Walter
These books in no way represent EVERY New York book in existence or even that I've read... just what I've obtained and chosen to keep in my collection. If you know of one you think I MUST add, feel free to contact me at jennala(at)cfl(dot)rr(dot)com.


