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  • Jennifer Thermes The best nonfiction children’s books about New York City Book cover of Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge Book cover of Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood Book cover of City Shapes Book cover of The Secret Subway Book cover of A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park
  • Jason M. Barr The best books on the real estate titans who built the New York City skyline Book cover of The Empire State Building Book cover of Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers Book cover of Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center Book cover of Skyscraper Dreams: The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York Book cover of High Rise: How 1000 Men and Women Worked around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper
  • Jason M. Barr The best books about the New York City skyline Book cover of Rise of the New York Skyscraper: 1865-1913 Book cover of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago Book cover of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City Book cover of Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City Book cover of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
  • Jonathan H. Rees The best books on the history of New York City Book cover of Up in the Old Hotel Book cover of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Book cover of The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge Book cover of Gotham Book cover of New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore
  • Alex Shvartsman The best funny and snarky fantasy novels set in New York City Book cover of The Hex Is In: The Fast Life and Fantastic Times of Harry the Book Book cover of Tune in Tomorrow: The Curious, Calamitous, Cockamamie Story of Starr Weatherby and the Greatest Mythic Reality Show Ever Book cover of Dead Jack and the Pandemonium Device Book cover of The Shambling Guide to New York City Book cover of Brooklyn Knight
  • Marie Carter The best history books about working women struggling to survive in New York City Book cover of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy Book cover of The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Book cover of When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion Book cover of Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist Book cover of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
  • Chris Payne The best books on music and New York City Book cover of Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 Book cover of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Book cover of Someone Who Isn’t Me Book cover of The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed Book cover of The History of Bones
  • Ali Smith The best books about New York City subcultures Book cover of The Mole People Book cover of St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street Book cover of How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Book cover of Slaves of New York Book cover of The Glass Castle
  • Julie Satow The most fascinating books about strong New York women Book cover of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman Book cover of The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free Book cover of The Magnolia Palace Book cover of Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era Book cover of The Best of Everything
  • Thomas Dyja The best books on how New York became New York (that aren’t Robert Caro’s The Power Broker) Book cover of The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984 Book cover of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity Book cover of Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City Book cover of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Book cover of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
  • Elyssa Goodman The best books about living a glittering life in New York City Book cover of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress Book cover of St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street Book cover of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever Book cover of Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern Book cover of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
  • Jennie Yabroff The best books for young readers set in old-school NYC Book cover of When You Reach Me Book cover of Harriet the Spy Book cover of The Catcher in the Rye Book cover of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Book cover of Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky
  • Susie Orman Schnall The best historical fiction novels set in NYC Book cover of The Personal Librarian Book cover of The Address Book cover of The Show Girl Book cover of The Two-Family House Book cover of My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
  • Joe Calderone The best books about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and the FDNY response Book cover of 102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers Book cover of Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York Book cover of Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 Book cover of The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Book cover of Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
  • Christiane Bird The best nonfiction books about New York City by women writers Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York Book cover of The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir Book cover of Just Kids Book cover of Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
  • Elizabeth Greenspan The best books on Post-9/11 New York City Book cover of The City We Became Book cover of This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search for Home Book cover of Open City Book cover of Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays Book cover of Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
  • Rafael Schacter The best books on graffiti (for art lovers and urbanists alike) Book cover of Gordon Matta-Clark Book cover of Rammellzee Book cover of The City Beneath Book cover of Nov York Book cover of The Faith of Graffiti
  • John Oller The best books about crime and punishment in the Gilded Age (1870-1910) Book cover of The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910 Book cover of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York Book cover of Manhattan Mafia Guide: Hits, Homes & Headquarters Book cover of Scoundrels in Law: The Trials of Howe and Hummel, Lawyers to the Gangsters, Cops, Starlets, and Rakes Who Made the Gilded Age Book cover of A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
  • Alice Sparberg Alexiou The best books about terrible, beautiful New York Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of Jews Without Money Book cover of The House of Mirth Book cover of The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America Book cover of How I Became Hettie Jones
  • Victoria Johnson The best books on New York City history to 1900 Book cover of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City Book cover of The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America Book cover of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt Book cover of Gotham Book cover of The Age of Innocence
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