I personally loved A tree grows in Brooklyn. The setting is Williamsburg. Actually should revisit this book.
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Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy
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Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
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**Nonfic:** Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark by Bill Dedman, Manhattan, When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell
**Fluff & Fluff Adjacent:** The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes, Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
**Historic/Historic Mystery:** Last Call at the Nightingale by Katherine Schellman (first in a series, though the second book didn’t grab me), The Godmothers by Camille Aubrey, Mood Indigo by Charlotte Vale Allen, A Fine Imitation by Amber Brock, Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, ***Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, Forever*** **by Pete Hamill**
**Contemporary:** The Latecomer and ***You Should Have Known*** **by Jean Hanff Korelitz**, The Banker’s Wife by Christina Alger, This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff, The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, ***The Nest*** **by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney**
*The titles in bold are books I particularly loved.*
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I personally loved A tree grows in Brooklyn. The setting is Williamsburg. Actually should revisit this book.
Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
**Nonfic:** Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark by Bill Dedman, Manhattan, When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell
**Fluff & Fluff Adjacent:** The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes, Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
**Historic/Historic Mystery:** Last Call at the Nightingale by Katherine Schellman (first in a series, though the second book didn’t grab me), The Godmothers by Camille Aubrey, Mood Indigo by Charlotte Vale Allen, A Fine Imitation by Amber Brock, Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, ***Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, Forever*** **by Pete Hamill**
**Contemporary:** The Latecomer and ***You Should Have Known*** **by Jean Hanff Korelitz**, The Banker’s Wife by Christina Alger, This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff, The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, ***The Nest*** **by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney**
*The titles in bold are books I particularly loved.*
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