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  • 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
  • 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
  • Paul M. Levitt The most arresting gangster books Book cover of The Great Gatsby Book cover of Billy Bathgate Book cover of The Godfather Book cover of Legs Book cover of Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams
  • 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
  • Dawn Raffel The best books about historic Coney Island Book cover of Good Old Coney Island: A Sentimental Journey Into the Past Book cover of Sodom By the Sea an Affectionate History of Coney Island Book cover of Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 Book cover of Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century Book cover of Coney Island: The People's Playground
  • 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
  • Thomas Hynes The best books to learn about the surprising history of New York City wildlife Book cover of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City Book cover of Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York Book cover of Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City Book cover of Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor Book cover of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
  • 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
  • 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
  • Michael Gross The best books about American High Society Book cover of Who Killed Society? Book cover of "Our Crowd": The Great Jewish Families of New York Book cover of The Rich and Other Atrocities Book cover of People Like Us Book cover of Privileged Lives
  • 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
  • Cindy Thomson The best Irish immigrant historical fiction Book cover of Ellis Island Book cover of The Edge of Lost Book cover of The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter: A Novel Book cover of Song of Erin: Cloth of Heaven/Ashes and Lace (Song of Erin Series 1-2) Book cover of The Nature of Fragile Things
  • 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
  • Aaron Poochigian The best books about Central Park from a budding naturalist Book cover of Central Park Trees and Landscapes Book cover of Seeing Central Park Book cover of The Park and the People: A History of Central Park Book cover of The Statues of Central Park Book cover of The Central Park
  • Justin Taylor The best second novels by authors I love Book cover of Lucy Book cover of Plays Well with Others Book cover of Home Land Book cover of Sensation Machines Book cover of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
  • Jillian Medoff The best novels about very rich families with very dark secrets Book cover of The Snakes Book cover of The Darlings Book cover of The Emperor's Children Book cover of Very Cold People Book cover of The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Robin Yocum The best mob books from a former crime reporter. Fuhgedaboudit! Book cover of The Godfather Book cover of Gangster Book cover of In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead Book cover of Road to Perdition Book cover of Button Man
  • Mark Bulik The best Irish American true crime books Book cover of The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob Book cover of The Man Who Rocked the Boat: The Story of a Troublesome Lawyer who Learned Almost Too Much About Life, Crime and Politics Book cover of Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the Boston FBI and a Devil's Deal Book cover of The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld Book cover of Seven Million: A Cop, a Priest, a Soldier for the IRA, and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brink's Heist
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