NYC Books We Love for Adults

75 Books Found

  • The Age of Innocence

    By Edith Wharton
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  • The Andy Warhol Diaries

    By Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (ed.)
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  • Another Country

    By James Baldwin
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  • Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York

    By William Grimes
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  • Basquiat: A Graphic Novel

    By Paolo Parisi
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  • Bill Cunningham: On the Street: 5 Decades of Iconic Photography

    By Tiina Loite (ed.)
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  • Bodega Dreams

    By Ernesto Quiñonez
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  • The Bonfire of the Vanities

    By Tom Wolfe
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  • Boss Tweed

    By Kenneth D. Ackerman
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  • The Bridge

    By Hart Crane
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  • Brown Girl, Brownstones

    By Paule Marshall
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  • Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

    By Jeff Chang
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  • Chelsea Girls

    By Eileen Myles
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  • Chinatowns of New York City

    By Wendy Wan-Yin Tan
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  • The Chosen

    By Chaim Potok
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  • City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s

    By Edmund White
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  • The City We Became

    By N.K. Jemisin
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  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

    By Langston Hughes
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  • The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts

    By Colson Whitehead
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  • Corona

    By Bushra Rehman
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  • Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

    By Rem Koolhaas
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  • Dominicana

    By Angie Cruz
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  • Downtown: My Manhattan

    By Pete Hamill
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  • East 100th Street

    By Bruce Davidson
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  • Five Points

    By Tyler Anbinder
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  • The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America

    By Charles Kaiser
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  • Gay New York

    By George Chauncey
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  • Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

    By Roz Chast
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  • The Good Rat: A True Story

    By Jimmy Breslin
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  • Here Is New York

    By E. B. White and Roger Angell
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  • Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980-1993

    By Frank Rich
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  • In the Heights

    By Quiara Alegría Hudes & Lin-Manuel…
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  • Jazz

    By Toni Morrison
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  • Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

    By Jonathan Mahler
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  • Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983

    By Tim Lawrence
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  • Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

    By Luc Sante
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  • Lunch Poems

    By Frank O'Hara
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  • The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

    By Oscar Hijuelos
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  • Manhattan Transfer

    By John Dos Passos
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  • The Maples Stories

    By John Updike
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  • Metropolitan Life

    By Fran Lebowitz
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  • Motherless Brooklyn

    By Jonathan Lethem
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  • Native New Yorkers

    By Evan T. Pritchard
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  • Native Speaker

    By Chang-rae Lee
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  • Netherland

    By Joseph O'Neill
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  • New York Diaries, 1609 to 2009

    By Teresa Carpenter (ed.)
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  • 97 Orchard: An Edible History

    By Jane Ziegelman
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  • Ninth Street Women

    By Mary Gabriel
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  • Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

    By Rebecca Solnit & Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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  • On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

    By Ada Louise Huxtable
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  • 102 Minutes

    By Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn
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  • Open City

    By Teju Cole
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  • Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

    By Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
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  • Poems of New York

    By Elizabeth Schmidt (ed.)
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  • Poet in New York

    By Federico García Lorca
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  • The Portable Dorothy Parker

    By Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade (ed.)
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  • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    By Robert A. Caro
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  • A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches

    By Jesús Colón
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  • Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947–1985

    By James McCourt
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  • A Rage In Harlem

    By Chester Himes
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  • Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright

    By Nora Burnett Abrams
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  • Salsa Rising: New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation

    By Juan Flores
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  • Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Theater

    By Ted Fox & James Otis Smith
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  • Slaves of New York

    By Tama Janowitz
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  • Staten Island Stories

    By Claire Jimenez
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  • The Stories of John Cheever

    By John Cheever
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  • Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

    By Samuel R. Delany
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  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    By Betty Smith
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  • Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

    By David Von Drehle
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  • Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories

    By Joseph Mitchell
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  • Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989–92

    By Chantal Regnault
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  • A Walker in the City

    By Alfred Kazin
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  • When Brooklyn Was Queer

    By Hugh Ryan
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  • When Harlem Was in Vogue

    By David Levering Lewis
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  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

    By Audre Lorde
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