Right now I'm reading Tucker Shaw's book "When You Call My Name". I love being transported back to a certain place and time and I always found NYC in that time period fascinating. Can anyone recommend more books like it?
* 1964 _Last Exit to Brooklyn_ by Hubert Selby Jr.
* 1965 _Midnight Cowboy_ by James Leo Herlihy
* 1973 _Oreo_ by Fran Ross
* 1984 _Bright Lights, Big City_ by Jay McInerney
* 1999 _Motherless Brooklyn_ by Jonathan Lethem
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Just Kids by Patti Smith
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The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem, is set in 70s-90s Brooklyn.
Harlem Shuffle and its sequels, by Colson Whitehead, take place between the end of the 50s and the 80s.
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People in Trouble by Sarah Schulman is from 1989 and focuses on New York during the AIDS crisis.
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1943-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The War of the Roses. Bonfire of the Vanities.
Novels, NYC. 1980s.
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Teacher man by Frank McCourt
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Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz
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Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
New York Trilogy by Paul Austin
There’s also Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in NYC in the 1970s and also the 1880s.
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* 1964 _Last Exit to Brooklyn_ by Hubert Selby Jr.
* 1965 _Midnight Cowboy_ by James Leo Herlihy
* 1973 _Oreo_ by Fran Ross
* 1984 _Bright Lights, Big City_ by Jay McInerney
* 1999 _Motherless Brooklyn_ by Jonathan Lethem
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem, is set in 70s-90s Brooklyn.
Harlem Shuffle and its sequels, by Colson Whitehead, take place between the end of the 50s and the 80s.
People in Trouble by Sarah Schulman is from 1989 and focuses on New York during the AIDS crisis.
1943-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The War of the Roses. Bonfire of the Vanities.
Novels, NYC. 1980s.
Teacher man by Frank McCourt
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
New York Trilogy by Paul Austin
There’s also Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in NYC in the 1970s and also the 1880s.