Best Novels About New York City - April 2024

New York: The Novel

Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and “Required Reading” by the New York PostEdward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant—a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city’s fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York’s humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fishing village, the arrival of Dutch and British merchants,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345497422
• ASIN: 0345497422
• ISBN: 0345497422
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Wonder

• ASIN: 0375869026
• ASIN: 0375869026
• ISBN: 0375969020
• Brand: Alfred A Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.

• ASIN: 0375725601
• UPC: 884510967318
• ASIN: 0375725601
• ISBN: 0375725601
• Brand: Erik Larson
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Rules of Civility: A Novel

From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) novel of a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society.On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a braci... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143121162
• ASIN: 0143121162
• ISBN: 0143121162
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250153964
• ASIN: 1250153964
• ISBN: 9781250153968
• Manufacturer: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin

The City (with bonus short story The Neighbor): A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes Dean Koontz’s short story “The Neighbor”!This ebook edition contains a special preview of Dean Koontz’s The Silent Corner.Dean Koontz is at the peak of his acclaimed powers with this major new novel. A young boy, a musical prodigy, discovering life’s wonders—and mortal dangers. His best friend, also a gifted musician, who will share his journey into destiny. His remarkable family, tested by the extremes of evil and bound by the depths of love . . . on a collision course with a band of killers about to unleash anarchy. And two unlikely allies, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00GQAETIC
• ASIN: B00GQAETIC
• Manufacturer: Bantam

The Chelsea Girls: A Novel

The bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about a twenty-year friendship that will irrevocably change two women's lives—from the national bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address. From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City's creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home—a scene playwright Hazel Riley and a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524744581
• ASIN: 1524744581
• ISBN: 1524744581
• Manufacturer: Dutton

There There: A novel

• ASIN: B075HY1NFB
• ASIN: B075HY1NFB
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

• ASIN: 0061577073
• UPC: 201561577073
• ASIN: 0061577073
• ISBN: 9780061577079
• Brand: Kingsolver, Barbara
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography.The incredible modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and launched James McBride’s literary career.Over two years on The New York Times bestseller list Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159448192X
• ASIN: 159448192X
• ISBN: 9781594481925
• Brand: James McBride
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

The Poet X

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.But Xiomara has plenty she wants to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062662805
• ASIN: 0062662805
• ISBN: 0062662805
• Manufacturer: HarperTeen

These Truths: A History of the United States

• ASIN: 0393635244
• ASIN: 0393635244
• ISBN: 0393635244
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Look Alive Twenty-Five: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399179224
• ASIN: 0399179224
• ISBN: 0399179224
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the twentieth century. Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, C... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0394720245
• ASIN: 0394720245
• ISBN: 0394720245
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1568585985
• ASIN: 1568585985
• ISBN: 1568585985
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Bold Type Books

Tales of Two Cities : The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York

An examination of New York City's increasing wealth gap and its surrounding debates presents fictional and reportage-style writings by such forefront literary figures as Zadie Smith, Junot Dâiaz, and Lydia

• UPC: 44721583

The Last Elephant in New York City

How far would you go to save a friend? And what if that friend were an animal in

• UPC: 897150788

No Irish Need Apply : A Novel about New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the Mid-1800's

No Irish Need Apply is a historical portrait of New York City's Hell's Kitchen chronicling the friendship and struggles of Johnny O'Hara and his friend Red, children of immigrants who escaped Ireland's Great Hunger. Orphaned

• UPC: 53293436

Annie Moore : New York City Girl

Sequel to: Annie Moore, the golden dollar

• UPC: 46505271

L.A. Journal : Some Stories about Some Guys Doing the Best They Can in the Nowhere City

L.A. JOURNAL [9781475961218]

• UPC: 23256503

L.A. Journal : Some Stories about Some Guys Doing the Best They Can in the Nowhere City

"L.A. Journal": Some Stories about Some Guys Doing the Best They Can in the Nowhere

• UPC: 888786087