Four writers and one bookseller gathered over Zoom to make a list devoted to fiction in which the city is more than mere setting.
The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years
2020tbookclub Adler, Renata Akhtar, Ayad Another Country (Book) Auster, Paul Baldwin, James (1924-87) Books and Literature Bright Lights, Big City (Book) Brown Girl, Brownstones (Book) Chabon, Michael Cole, Teju DeLillo, Don Desperate Characters (Book) Doctorow, E L Dos Passos, John Ellison, Ralph Fitzhugh, Louise Perkins Fox, Paula Gibbons, Dave Harriet the Spy (Book) Higgins, John (1949- ) Homeland Elegies (Book) Invisible Man (Book) Jazz (Book) Kushner, Rachel Larsen, Nella Lee, Chang-Rae Lethem, Jonathan Levin, Ira Manhattan Transfer (Book) Marshall, Paule McDermott, Alice McInerney, Jay Moore, Alan (1953- ) Morrison, Toni Native Speaker (Book) New York City Open City (Book) Passing (Book) Petry, Ann Powell, Dawn Push (Book) Ragtime (Book) Rosemary’s Baby (Book) Sapphire Someone (Book) Speedboat (Book) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Book) The Flamethrowers (Book) The Fortress of Solitude (Book) The Golden Spur (Book) The New York Trilogy (Book) The Street (Book) Underworld (Book) Watchmen (Book) Writing and Writers
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