EBA little while ago, I asked for your suggestions for awesome New York books. You offered lots of suggestions, ALL of which are listed below, but the one that came up the most was . . .
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem!
Close seconds were Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg.
Are there any that were left out? What do you think of the top choices?
The full list!
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Great Bridge by David McCullough
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
From Rockaway by Jill Eisenstadt
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
All-of-a-Kind Family (series) by Sydney Taylor
Here is New York by E.B. White
Watchmen by Alan Moore
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
The Sandman: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 3 votes
Harriet the Spy
New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
Dreamland by Kevin Baker
The Epic of New York City by Edward Robb Ellis
Forever by Pete Hamill
Babysitters Club Super Special New York New York by Ann M. Martin (this one was said as a joke but I’m leaving it in)
Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz
Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Very Valentine/Brava Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Zero by Jess Walter
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann 3 votes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Girl in Translation
Island at the Center of the World
JR by William Gaddis
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
Molly Murphy (series) by Rhys Bowen
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
Low Life
Time and Again
Savage City by TJ English
The Faith of Graffiti
Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Totally Killer by Greg Olear
Dogrun by Arthur Nersesian
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Little, Big by John Crowley
Peeps by Scott Westerfield
Some Girls by Kristin McCloy
Minding Ben by Victoria Brown
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
