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NEW YORK STORIES🚕
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Books about New York or set in New York that really capture the city’s soul.
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Pulitzer Prize winner 1920’s Wall Street
Trust by Diaz, Herna
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Musician & Poet, Patti Smith about life in late-1960s Greenwich Village and the Chelsea Hotel
Just Kids by Patti Smith
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Dystopian New York. Great book.
Severance by Ling Ma
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1974 New York and Philippe Petit's tightrope walk. One of my all time favorites.
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
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Gilded Age Manhattan. This is a classic.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Heavy story about a boy’s trauma after trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
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Essays about the spirit of the city by a master.
Here is New York by E.B. White
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1940’s Brooklyn NYC and comic book artists. But so much more. I want to read this again!
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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This book changed my way of thinking about lots of things.
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