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Books Set in New York City

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,727 members

1,302 reviews

3.8

10 Members: hipdeep, smcwl, roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Long Island

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,965 members

334 reviews

4

10 Members: smcwl, AnnaClaire, roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, petalsnthorns, ladyand24

3

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,053 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

9 Members: KimarieBee, smcwl, roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,hipdeep ,cej1027 ,

4

by Sylvia Plath

32,653 members

559 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,737 members

212 reviews

4

6 Members: smcwl, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

6

7,086 members

101 reviews

4.1

6 Members: dara85, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, petalsnthorns

7

Rosemary's Baby

5,397 members

157 reviews

3.8

6 Members: KimarieBee, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Manhattan

8

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

4,181 members

101 reviews

3.8

6 Members: smcwl, roby72, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,362 members

428 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

10

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

19,543 members

300 reviews

4.2

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

18,525 members

482 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: dara85, merrystar, thecoroner, ahef1963, ladyand24

12

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

16,128 members

196 reviews

4

5 Members: smcwl, roby72, alex68, petalsnthorns, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Ralph Ellison

18,369 members

231 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68

14

18,357 members

157 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

15

18,278 members

866 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

17,761 members

490 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

17

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

16,090 members

336 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Michael Cunningham

13,624 members

243 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The New York Trilogy

10,816 members

174 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

20

10,435 members

262 reviews

4

4 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963

21

The Bonfire of the Vanities

9,703 members

142 reviews

3.8

5 Members: smcwl, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68,merrystar

22

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

6,899 members

134 reviews

3.9

4 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, alex68, ahef1963

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Washington Square

4,858 members

99 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: AnnaClaire, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

24

My Name Is Asher Lev

4,805 members

82 reviews

4.2

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68

25

by Dashiell Hammett

4,728 members

159 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68

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4,424 members

154 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, lindapanzo, ahef1963

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All-of-a-Kind Family

by Sydney Taylor

3,832 members

63 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dara85, merrystar, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

28

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

by Bette Bao Lord

3,691 members

23 reviews

3.8

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Elizabeth Enright

2,064 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, merrystar, cej1027

30

by Kay Thompson

2,047 members

48 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027

31

Summer Crossing

by Truman Capote

1,148 members

37 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Three Beds in Manhattan

by Georges Simenon

639 members

19 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

33

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

18,580 members

438 reviews

4.1

4 Members: dara85, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963,merrystar

34

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

14,964 members

185 reviews

3.9

3 Members: baaic, sturlington, ahef1963

35

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,255 members

138 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

36

12,648 members

198 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

37

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

9,783 members

550 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963
Explanations: sturlington: DNF

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8,774 members

90 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

39

The Woman in the Window

8,033 members

383 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Sophie's Choice

by William Styron

6,559 members

91 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

41

The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)

by Stephen King

4,981 members

72 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

42

Bright Lights, Big City

by Jay McInerney

3,221 members

50 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: smcwl, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by P. G. Wodehouse

2,455 members

122 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963

44

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

by Judith Rossner

953 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

45

by Frank McCourt

23,537 members

351 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, alex68

46

21,021 members

518 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

47

The Devil Wears Prada

by Lauren Weisberger

12,563 members

239 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

48

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

11,473 members

290 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

49

The Golem and the Jinni

by Helene Wecker

6,375 members

386 reviews

4.1

2 Members: craso, sturlington

50

Rules of Civility

6,346 members

361 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, lindapanzo

51

by Theodore Dreiser

4,387 members

67 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, alex68

52

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

3,683 members

47 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

53

Rubyfruit Jungle

by Rita Mae Brown

3,594 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

54

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

3,554 members

129 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

55

2,704 members

49 reviews

3.1

2 Members: roby72, alex68

56

Manhattan Transfer

by John Dos Passos

2,470 members

34 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, alex68

57

The Other Black Girl

by Zakiya Dalila Harris

1,738 members

75 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

China Mountain Zhang

by Maureen F. McHugh

1,501 members

48 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

59

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

by Deborah Feldman

1,466 members

67 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

60

Dancer from the Dance

by Andrew Holleran

1,158 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Tepper Isn't Going Out: A Novel

by Calvin Trillin

534 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: smcwl, sturlington

62

The City and the Pillar {original}

207 members

1 review

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Hanya Yanagihara

11,988 members

398 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

64

by E. L. Doctorow

6,819 members

138 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

65

6,621 members

267 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

66

by Colm Tóibín

6,352 members

335 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

67

The Princess Diaries

5,718 members

173 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

68

by Toni Morrison

5,668 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

69

Motherless Brooklyn

by Jonathan Lethem

5,277 members

113 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

70

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

4,905 members

193 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

71

by Nella Larsen

3,549 members

133 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

72

The Interestings

by Meg Wolitzer

3,415 members

214 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: baaic

73

Last Exit to Brooklyn

by Hubert Selby Jr.

3,302 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

74

Severance: A Novel

2,971 members

126 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

75

by Salman Rushdie

2,891 members

38 reviews

3.2

Member: alex68

76

2,868 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

77

by Stephen King

2,838 members

101 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

78

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton

2,730 members

69 reviews

4

Member: AmourFou

79

2,656 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

80

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,608 members

34 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alex68

81

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

2,328 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

82

2,318 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

83

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

by Oscar Hijuelos

2,123 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

84

by Michael Cunningham

2,080 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

85

Cities in Flight

1,957 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

86

The Grimm Legacy

by Polly Shulman

1,915 members

97 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

87

When No One Is Watching

1,825 members

82 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

88

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

by Steven Millhauser

1,801 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

89

by Victor LaValle

1,743 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

90

by Kim Stanley Robinson

1,662 members

79 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

91

Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

1,600 members

35 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

92

by Jonathan Lethem

1,551 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

93

The Last Days of Night

by Graham Moore

1,485 members

94 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

94

The Gods of Gotham

by Lyndsay Faye

1,453 members

127 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

95

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

by Kathleen Rooney

1,366 members

94 reviews

3.9

Member: lindapanzo

96

by Anzia Yezierska

1,346 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: knotbox
Explanations: knotbox: Set entirely in the boroughs, except for her college years, which are set in the near suburbs.

97

By Nightfall: A Novel

by Michael Cunningham

1,252 members

71 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

98

1,052 members

65 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: lindapanzo

99

A Good Marriage

by Kimberly McCreight

980 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

100

929 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

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