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Bookriot's 100 Must-Read New York City Novels Updated

"The common thread is not just novels that use New York City as a setting, but ones that render the city as a fully realized character in the story.... You'll find entries from Harlem Renaissance writers, stories of the Gilded Age, immigrant narratives from a huge range of cultures, modern tales of both excess and famine, and everything in between.
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1876 (Gore Vidal)
1876 (Gore Vidal)
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A History of New York (Washington Irving)
A History of New York (Washington Irving)
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A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
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American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
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Another Brooklyn (Jacqueline Woodson)
Another Brooklyn (Jacqueline Woodson)
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Another Country (James Baldwin)
Another Country (James Baldwin)
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Ashes of Fiery Weather (Kathleen Donohoe)
Ashes of Fiery Weather (Kathleen Donohoe)
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Behold the Dreamers (Imbolo Mbue)
Behold the Dreamers (Imbolo Mbue)
10
Billy Bathgate (E. L. Doctorow)
Billy Bathgate (E. L. Doctorow)
11
Bread Givers (Anzia Yezierska)
Bread Givers (Anzia Yezierska)
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
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Bright Lights, Big City (Jay McInerney)
Bright Lights, Big City (Jay McInerney)
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Brooklyn (Colm Tóibín)
Brooklyn (Colm Tóibín)
15
Brown Girl, Brownstones (Paule Marshall)
Brown Girl, Brownstones (Paule Marshall)
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Christodora (Tim Murphy)
Christodora (Tim Murphy)
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City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan (Beverly Swerling)
City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan (Beverly Swerling)
18
Daddy Was a Number Runner (Louise Meriwether)
Daddy Was a Number Runner (Louise Meriwether)
19
Dissident Gardens (Jonathan Lethem)
Dissident Gardens (Jonathan Lethem)
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Dreamland (Kevin Barker)
Dreamland (Kevin Barker)
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
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Fates and Furies (Lauren Groff)
Fates and Furies (Lauren Groff)
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Fever (Mary Beth Keane)
Fever (Mary Beth Keane)
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Forever (Pete Hamill)
Forever (Pete Hamill)
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Fury (Salman Rushdie)
Fury (Salman Rushdie)
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Girl in Translation (Jean Kwok)
Girl in Translation (Jean Kwok)
27
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
28
Going Down (Elise Sax)
Going Down (Elise Sax)
29
Half-Resurrection Blues (Daniel José Older)
Half-Resurrection Blues (Daniel José Older)
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Heyday (Kurt Anderson)
Heyday (Kurt Anderson)
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Julia Alvarez)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Julia Alvarez)
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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It's Kind of a Funny Story (Ned Vizzini)
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Ned Vizzini)
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Jazz (Toni Morrison)
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby Jr.)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby Jr.)
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Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
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Lowboy (John Wray)
Lowboy (John Wray)
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Lucy (Jamaica Kincaid)
Lucy (Jamaica Kincaid)
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Lush Life (Richard Price)
Lush Life (Richard Price)
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Stephen Crane)
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Stephen Crane)
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