New York City Book Award

Given by New York Society Library

37 Works 61,733 Books 1,930 Reviews 4.0
Awarded by the New York Society Library
The New York Society Library Book Awards, established in 1996, honor books of literary quality or historical importance that, in the opinion of the selection show more committee, evoke the spirit or enhance appreciation of New York City. It is not necessary that the city be the major subject of the book, but it must play an essential, invigorating role beyond that of the setting.
The New York City Book Awards website
Multiple awards are given each year without ranking ranging from one to six awards in a varying number of categories
A Special Citation of Merit was awarded in 2002 to ProQuest for digitalization of the New York Times (1851-1999)
One of the awards in 2004 was given to Arcadia Publishers for their Images of America series of books show less
Categories:
WorkYear
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
2023
Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage by Jarrod Shanahan
2023
Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City by Shanté Paradigm Smalls
2023
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet
2023
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Debby Applegate
2022
Boogie Boogie, Y’all by C. G. Esperanza
2022
Historic Black Brooklyn: 400 Years of Struggle and Hope by Brian Merlis
2022
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
2022
The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernández
2020
How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic by Bill Hayes
2020
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
2020
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
2020
The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan Daniel Wells
2020
The Central Park: Original Designs for New York's Greatest Treasure by Cynthia S. Brenwall
2019
The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team by Matthew Goodman
2019
The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Poets) by Willie Perdomo
2019
When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History by Hugh Ryan
2019
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
2018
One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway by Ezra Bookstein
2018
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter
2018
The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden by Karina Yan Glaser
2018
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
2018
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast
2017
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
2017
New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age Architecture by Anthony W. Robins
2017
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
2017
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace
2017
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder
2016
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph by Roxane Orgill
2016
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
2016
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York by Arthur Browne
2015
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008 by Robin Jaffee Frank
2015
City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel
2015
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire by Shane White
2015
New York Nights by James T. Murray
2012
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
2004
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2000