Best Novels About New York City
We asked New York City bookstore owners for their top choices:
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
From The Bronx to Wall Street, Wolfe crams the entire city into a vibrant journalistic tale.
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
This hilarious yarn about a low-level gangster with Tourette's who turns himself into a detective won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
A nameless black man from the South grapples with intolerance in Harlem in this '50s classic.
Time and Again by Jack Finney
A Nixon-era time traveler slips back into a vividly imagined 1882 Manhattan, using the timeless Dakota Hotel as his portal.
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