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Winter's Tale
When master mechanic Peter Lake attempts to rob a mansion on the Upper West Side, he is caught by young Beverly Penn, the terminally ill daughter of the house, and …
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Empire Rising
It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is …
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Forever
Moving from Ireland to New York City in 1741, Cormac O'Connor witnesses the city's transformation into a thriving metropolis while he explores the mysteries of time, loss, and love. By …
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Manhattan Transfer
An "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, …
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The Interpretation of Murder
The search for a serial killer during Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to New York City, his one visit to the U.S., propels the plot of Yale law professor Rubenfeld's ambitious …
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Call It Sleep
When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback …
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Brookland
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the Year Since her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the …
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Another Country
From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France. “Brilliant and fiercely told.”—The …
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City of Dreams
A sweeping epic of two families—one Dutch, one English—from the time when New Amsterdam was a raw and rowdy settlement, to the triumph of the Revolution, when New York became …
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New York
A saga of New York City from its beginnings as a Native village.
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Metropolis
On a freezing night in the middle of a New York winter, a young immigrant is suddenly awakened by a fire in P. T. Barnum’s stable, where he works and …
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Old New York
Four short novels of New York in the 19th century deal with infidelity, illegitimacy, the class system and the place of women in society.
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Time and Again
Simon Morley is selected by a secret government agency to test Einstein's theory of the past co-existing with the present and is transported back to 1880s New York.
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Maggie
Maggie is an astonishing novel of social realism, which parallels many of today's ills. Set in the urban squalor of New York in the 1890s, it follows the careers of …
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with …
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Strivers Row
The Rev. Jonah Dove is the son of a legendary Harlem minister, and a man troubled in both mind and spirit. He feels himself unworthy and incapable of taking up …
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The Electric Michelangelo
Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy -- a …
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The Drowning Room
Set during the terrible winter of 1642, in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, this haunting and evocative novel, based on fact, tells of Gretje Reyniers, a feisty, complex woman …
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The Night Inspector
An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York …
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The Alienist
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES • “A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly “Caleb Carr’s …
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Suspension
"Suspension" is a riveting historical thriller filled with fascinating details of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, chosen as one of the year's best by the "San Francisco Chronicle."
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Gramercy Park
Mario Alfieri, a world-famous tenor, seeks a few months of quiet before his Metropolitan Opera debut. Clara Adler, the ward of a deceased millionaire, has secrets she has yet to …
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Paradise Alley
They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. …
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Emma Who Saved My Life
Gil Freeman, a midwestern aspiring actor, comes to the city in search of stardombut instead encounters the perils of Alphabet City, the desperation of off-off-off-Broadway theater...and the exhilarating, exasperating, absolutely …
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GODFATHER - "A classic... The novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage." …
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Summer in Williamsburg
Describes the lives of the Jewish inhabitants of a tenement building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the thirties
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The Gangs of New York
The basis of Martin Scorcese's acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city's dark past. Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling …
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The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan
When a young bride opens a Manhattan tavern in 1626, her razor-sharp tongue and premium beer spur the tiny settlement of New Amsterdam toward a collision with the tyrannical Dutchmen …
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Dancer from the Dance
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of …
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The Year of Silence
Marian died by her own hand exactly one year ago. The author approaches Marian's death from the viewpoints of the people that touched her life including her lover, her best …
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Billy Bathgate
The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the …
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The Banished Children of Eve
In Banished Children of Eve, Quinn presents a lavishly praised novel of a great American city in crisis.
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The Street
A young African American woman struggles to retain her moral integrity and guard her small son from evil in Harlem.
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North River
From the bestselling author of Forever and Snow in August comes a story of love, family, and regained hope against the backdrop of Depression-era New York City. It is 1934, …
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Martin Dressler
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The author of Voices in the Night reveals the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as he walks a haunted line …
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The Invention of Everything Else
Hunt's novel is a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla lived out his last …
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Friday Nights at Honeybee's
The Friday night musical gatherings of Honeybee McColor attract the finest jazz and blues musicians of the period, including lost souls Forestine Bent and Viola Bembry--one from the Brooklyn projects, …
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Netherland
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • "Netherland tells the fragmented story of a man in exile—from home, family …