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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

83,020 members

1,304 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

15,837 members

335 reviews

4

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

3

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,270 members

1,198 reviews

3.8

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

4

by Sylvia Plath

32,748 members

560 reviews

4

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

5

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,761 members

212 reviews

4

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

6

7,101 members

101 reviews

4.1

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

7

Rosemary's Baby

5,339 members

157 reviews

3.8

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

8

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

4,189 members

101 reviews

3.8

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

9

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,422 members

429 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

19,617 members

302 reviews

4.2

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

11

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

18,467 members

482 reviews

½ 4.3

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

12

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

16,171 members

196 reviews

4

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

13

by Ralph Ellison

18,441 members

231 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68

14

18,414 members

157 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

15

18,412 members

869 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

17,802 members

492 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

17

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

16,173 members

337 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Michael Cunningham

13,651 members

243 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The New York Trilogy

10,870 members

174 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

20

10,476 members

262 reviews

4

4 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963

21

The Bonfire of the Vanities

9,734 members

142 reviews

3.8

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

22

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

6,928 members

134 reviews

3.9

4 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, alex68, ahef1963

23

Washington Square

4,863 members

99 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: AnnaClaire, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

24

My Name Is Asher Lev

4,818 members

82 reviews

4.2

4 Members: aulsmith, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68

25

by Dashiell Hammett

4,736 members

159 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68

26

4,430 members

154 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, lindapanzo, ahef1963

27

All-of-a-Kind Family

by Sydney Taylor

3,844 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

3,706 members

23 reviews

3.8

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by Elizabeth Enright

2,073 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, merrystar, cej1027

30

by Kay Thompson

2,055 members

48 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027

31

Summer Crossing

by Truman Capote

1,154 members

37 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Three Beds in Manhattan

by Georges Simenon

643 members

19 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, alex68

33

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

18,690 members

437 reviews

4.1

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

34

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

15,008 members

186 reviews

3.9

3 Members: baaic, sturlington, ahef1963

35

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,285 members

139 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

36

12,697 members

198 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

37

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

9,834 members

552 reviews

½ 3.7

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

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8,804 members

90 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

39

The Woman in the Window

8,082 members

385 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Sophie's Choice

by William Styron

6,575 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

4,982 members

72 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

42

Bright Lights, Big City

by Jay McInerney

3,231 members

50 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: smcwl, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

43

by P. G. Wodehouse

2,462 members

123 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963

44

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

by Judith Rossner

956 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

45

by Frank McCourt

23,576 members

351 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, alex68

46

21,083 members

520 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

47

The Devil Wears Prada

by Lauren Weisberger

12,582 members

239 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

48

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

11,510 members

291 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

49

Rules of Civility

6,378 members

361 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, lindapanzo

50

The Golem and the Jinni

by Helene Wecker

6,283 members

387 reviews

4.1

2 Members: craso, sturlington

51

by Theodore Dreiser

4,390 members

67 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, alex68

52

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

3,696 members

47 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, ahef1963

53

Rubyfruit Jungle

by Rita Mae Brown

3,588 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

54

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

3,573 members

130 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, alex68

55

2,711 members

49 reviews

3.1

2 Members: roby72, alex68

56

Manhattan Transfer

by John Dos Passos

2,476 members

34 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, alex68

57

The Other Black Girl

by Zakiya Dalila Harris

1,762 members

75 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

58

China Mountain Zhang

by Maureen F. McHugh

1,502 members

48 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

59

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

by Deborah Feldman

1,477 members

68 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

60

Dancer from the Dance

by Andrew Holleran

1,163 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

61

Tepper Isn't Going Out: A Novel

by Calvin Trillin

535 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

12,160 members

397 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

64

by E. L. Doctorow

6,842 members

139 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

65

6,655 members

268 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

66

by Colm Tóibín

6,389 members

337 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

67

The Princess Diaries

5,725 members

173 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

68

by Toni Morrison

5,692 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

69

Motherless Brooklyn

by Jonathan Lethem

5,288 members

113 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

70

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

4,985 members

195 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

71

by Nella Larsen

3,574 members

134 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

72

The Interestings

by Meg Wolitzer

3,419 members

214 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: baaic

73

Last Exit to Brooklyn

by Hubert Selby Jr.

3,314 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

74

3,003 members

128 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

75

by Salman Rushdie

2,891 members

38 reviews

3.2

Member: alex68

76

2,873 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

77

by Stephen King

2,872 members

102 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

78

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton

2,738 members

69 reviews

4

Member: AmourFou

79

2,665 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

80

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,626 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

2,323 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

83

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

by Oscar Hijuelos

2,126 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

84

by Michael Cunningham

2,087 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

85

Cities in Flight

1,965 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

86

The Grimm Legacy

by Polly Shulman

1,924 members

97 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

87

When No One Is Watching

1,837 members

82 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

88

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

by Steven Millhauser

1,805 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

89

by Victor LaValle

1,772 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

90

by Kim Stanley Robinson

1,671 members

79 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

91

Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

1,606 members

35 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

92

by Jonathan Lethem

1,554 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

93

The Last Days of Night

by Graham Moore

1,494 members

94 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

94

The Gods of Gotham

by Lyndsay Faye

1,459 members

127 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

95

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

by Kathleen Rooney

1,375 members

94 reviews

3.9

Member: lindapanzo

96

by Anzia Yezierska

1,353 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

1,254 members

71 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

98

1,057 members

65 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: lindapanzo

99

A Good Marriage

by Kimberly McCreight

983 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

100

932 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

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