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Good Nonfiction about New York City

Description: However you define a good book, if it's nonfiction and about New York, New York, it's welcome on this list. Please note that fiction and books about other places, if added to this list, may be down-voted without mercy.

Members: 10 participating members (show all)

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1
Here is New York
by E. B. White
913 members, 14 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ladyand24 (1), lilithcat (1), MikeBriggs (1)

Score: 12

2
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
by David Von Drehle
1,058 members, 32 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: kageeh (1), lilithcat (2), AnnaClaire (4)

Score: 10.19

3
Apple of My Eye
by Helene Hanff
316 members, 15 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ladyand24 (2), lilithcat (3), Chatterbox (5)

Score: 9.08

5
Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis
by Kevin Walsh
189 members, 0 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (2), ladyand24 (4)

Score: 6.19

7
This is New York, Honey!
by Michele Landsberg
13 members, 2 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: ladyand24 (6), Chatterbox (6)

Score: 5.11

9
The Rise of New York Port (1815-1860)
by Robert Greenhalgh Albion
40 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ladyand24 (7), eromsted (14)

Score: 4.53

11
The Colossus of New York
by Colson Whitehead
483 members, 10 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: DorsVenabili (1)

Score: 4

12
Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
by Ian Frazier
152 members, 3 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (1)

Score: 4

13
New York Deco
by Richard Berenholtz
67 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: abbottthomas (1)

Score: 4

14
The Assassination of New York
by Robert Fitch
52 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: eromsted (1)

Score: 4

18
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
by Ann Douglas
350 members, 5 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (3)

Score: 3.04

20
Working-Class New York
by Joshua Benjamin Freeman
73 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: eromsted (3)

Score: 3.04

21
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
2,353 members, 38 reviews
4.59 stars (4.59 stars)

Lists: eromsted (4)

Score: 2.83

23
Tompkins Square Park
by Q. Sakamaki
6 members, 0 reviews

Lists: eromsted (5)

Score: 2.68

25
The Triangle Fire
by Leon Stein
89 members, 1 review
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: AnnaClaire (6)

Score: 2.56

27
New York in the Thirties
by Berenice Abbott
267 members, 4 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (7)

Score: 2.46

28
Burning New York
by James T. Murray
11 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: eromsted (7)

Score: 2.46

32
The Works: Anatomy of a City
by Kate Ascher
711 members, 9 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: eromsted (10)

Score: 2.25

35
The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834
by Paul A. Gilje
31 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: eromsted (13)

Score: 2.11

39
How the Other Half Lives
by Jacob A. Riis
1,235 members, 8 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: eromsted (18)

Score: 1.94

42
The Tenant movement in New York City, 1904-1984
by Ronald Lawson
5 members, 0 reviews

Lists: eromsted (21)

Score: 1.87

47
World of Our Fathers
by Irving Howe
747 members, 9 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: eromsted (27)

Score: 1.76

48
Harlem, Negro metropolis
by Claude McKay
17 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: eromsted (28)

Score: 1.74

49
"Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression
by Cheryl Greenberg
25 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: eromsted (29)

Score: 1.72

50
Old Bowery days : the chronicles of a famous street
by Alvin F Harlow
13 members, 0 reviews

Lists: eromsted (30)

Score: 1.71

52
Sunshine and Shadow in New York
by Matthew Hale Smith
18 members, 0 reviews

Lists: eromsted (33)

Score: 1.67

53
The volcano under the city
by William Osborn] [Stoddard
2 members, 0 reviews

Lists: eromsted (34)

Score: 1.66

57
Old New York in Early Photographs
by Mary Black
157 members, 2 reviews
4.56 stars (4.56 stars)

Lists: eromsted (38)

Score: 1.61

59
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
by Edwin G. Burrows
1,309 members, 3 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: eromsted (40)

Score: 1.59

60
La Guardia, a fighter against his times
by Arthur Mann
9 members, 0 reviews

Lists: eromsted (41)

Score: 1.58

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Started by: AnnaClaire (February 2012)

Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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