Just Kids

PATTI SMITH

Memoir about Smith's relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Intriguing look at artists, writers, musicians in 60's-70's New York.

Year: 2010
Genre: Nonfiction

Comfort Me with Apples

RUTH REICHL

Tales of love, life, and marvelous meals from New York, to China, France, and Los Angeles.

Year: 2001
Genre: Nonfiction

Let the Great World Spin

COLUM MCCANN

A novel on the Twin Towers.

Year: 2009
Genre: Fiction

Breakfast at Tiffany's

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Classic.

Year: 1958
Genre: Fiction

The New York Stories

EDITH WHARTON

Stories about New York written over the course of Wharton's career.

Year: 1989
Genre: Fiction

Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities

VAHRAM MURATYAN

Muratyan presents his unique observation on these cities, featuring visually striking graphics paired with witty, thought-provoking tag lines that celebrate the special details of each city.

Year: 2011
Genre: Nonfiction

Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker

DAVID REMNICK

An anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context.

Year: 2007
Genre: Fiction

A Visit from the Goon Squad

JENNIFER EGAN

With music pulsing on every page, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

Year: 2010
Genre: Fiction

Here is New York

E.B. WHITE

In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York.

Year: 1949
Genre: Nonfiction

Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers

BECKY COOPER

Armed with hundreds of blank maps, Cooper has painstakingly printed by hand and walked Manhattan from end to end. Along her journey she met police officers, homeless people, fashion models, and senior citizens who had lived in Manhattan all their lives.

Year: 2013
Genre: Nonfiction

Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan

PHILLIP LOPATE

Fusing history, lore, politics, culture, and on-site adventures, esteemed essayist and author Phillip Lopate takes us on an exuberant, affectionate, and eye-opening excursion around Manhattan's shoreline.

Year: 2008
Genre: Nonfiction

American Venus: The Extraordinary Life of Audrey Munson

DIANE ROZAS

The most famous nude model of the Beaux-Arts whose figure graces the top of New Yorks' Municipal Buildlng

Year: 1999
Genre: Nonfiction