New York City Book Award

Given by New York Society Library

110 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
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Years:
All, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2020 (7), 2019 (5), 2018 (6), 2017 (6), 2016 (4), 2015 (5), 2014 (4), 2013 (4), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (5), 2008 (1), 2007 (2), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (6), 2003 (4), 2002 (5), 2001 (3), 2000 (6), 1999 (4), 1998 (4), 1997 (2), 1996 (1), 1995 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
First Book2023
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
House of Sticks: A Memoir by Ly Tran
First Book2022
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
Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible by Stephen Haff
The Hornblower Award for a First Book2020
Becoming Kid Quixote: A True Story of Belonging in America by Sarah Sierra
The Hornblower Award for a First Book2020
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
Staten Island Stories by Claire Jiménez
The Hornblower Award for a First Book2019
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
Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City by Albert Samaha
Hornblower Award for a First Book2018
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
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Hornblower Award for a First Book2017
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
Once a Cop: The Street, the Law, Two Worlds, One Man by Corey Pegues
Hornblower Award for a First Book2016
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
Reading Publics: New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911 by Tom Glynn
First book2015
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
J.D. Salinger The Escape Artist by Thomas Beller
Biography/Memoir2014
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
Fiction2014
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur
First Book2014
Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York by Ted Steinberg
Natural History2014
Building Seagram by Phyllis Lambert
Architecture2013
Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America by Matt Apuzzo
First Book2013
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins
History2013
New York City of Trees by Benjamin Swett
Photography2013
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Alex Gilvarry
First Book2012
One Times Square: A Century of Change at the Crossroads of the World by Joe McKendry
Photography2012
New York Nights by James T. Murray
2012
Open City by Teju Cole
Fiction2011
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York by Suleiman Osman
First Book2011
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson
History2011
Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing (American Institutions and Society) by Peter R. Eisenstadt
History2010
Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood by Martin Lemelman
Memoir2010
Harlem: A Century in Images by Studio Museum
Photography2010
The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929 by Andrew S. Dolkart
Architecture2009
Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn by Ayala Fader
Cultural Anthropology2009
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration : New York's river festival of 1909 and the making of a metropolis by Kathleen Eagen Johnson
History2009
Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx by Constance Rosenblum
Social History2009
Mapping New York by Black Dog Publishing
Visual History2009
The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York by Gail Fenske
Book of the Year2008
Trying Leviathan by D. Graham Burnett
History2007
New York Rises by Michael Lorenzini
Photography2007
Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect by Jewel Stern
Architecture2006
Picturing the City by Rebecca Zurier
Art2006
Biography of a Tenement House in New York City by Andrew S. Dolkart
Social history2006
Redemption, the Life of Henry Roth by Steven G. Kellman
Biography2005
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore
Book of the Year2005
The Mythic City by Donald Albrecht
Photography2005
Subway Style by New York Transit Museum
Architecture2004
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
Book of the Year2004
From Abyssinian to Zion by David W. Dunlap
Book of the Year2004
Waterfront, a Journey around Manhattan by Phillip Lopate
Book of the Year2004
Mimmy and Sophie, All Around the Town by Miriam Cohen
Children's Book2004
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
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle
Book of the Year2003
The Newsboys' Lodging-House: or The Confessions of William James--A Novel by Jon Boorstin
Historical fiction2003
Waterworks, a Photographic Journey through New York's Hidden Water System by Stanley Greenberg
Photography2003
New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buidlings and Landmarks by Christopher Gray
Special citation of merit2003
Harlem, Lost and Found by Michael Henry Adams
Architectural history2002
Coney Island, Lost and Found by Charles Denson
Book of the Year2002
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman
Children's Book2002
American Ground by William Langewiesche
Journalism2002
A Modern Arcadia by Susan L. Klaus
Landscape history2002
Lookin' for Bird in the Big City by Robert Burleigh
Children's Book2001
Five Points by Tyler Anbinder
History2001
Unearthing Gotham by Anne-Marie Cantwell
History2001
Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough by Lloyd Ultan
Borough history2000
Working-Class New York by Joshua Benjamin Freeman
History2000
Old Queens, N.Y., in Early Photographs: 261 Prints by Vincent F. Seyfried
Lifetime achievement2000
Heartbeats in the Muck: the History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor by John Waldman
Natural history2000
AIA Guide to New York City by Norval White
Special citation of merit2000
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2000
Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
Biography1999
New York 1880 by Robert A. M. Stern
Book of the Year1999
Sector 7 by David Wiesner
Children's Book1999
'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Memoir1999
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows
Book of the Year1998
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology by Phillip Lopate
Fiction1998
New York, an Illustrated History of the People by Allon Schoener
Photographic work1998
Displaying women: spectacles of leisure in Edith Wharton's New York by Maureen E. Montgomery
Unusual topic1998
Manhattan in Maps, 1527-1995 by Paul E. Cohen
Book of the Year1997
Terra-Cotta Skyline by Susan Tunick
Book of the Year1997
Brooklyn: An Illustrated History by Ellen Snyder-Grenier
Book of the Year1996
The Encyclopedia of New York City by Kenneth T. Jackson
Book of the Year1995

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