A Short List of Recommended Books for DNY  

(listed alphabetically)

 

Angelou, Maya. The Complete Collected Poems. Random House, 1994

 

Auster, Paul. The New York Trilogy. Faber and Faber, 1987

 

Baldwin, James. Another Country. Dial Press, 1962

 

Carr, Caleb. The Alienist.  Random House, 1994

 

Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Random House, 2000

 

Doctorow,  E.L. Billy Bathgate. Penguin, 1990

 

Dreiser, Theodore.  Sister Carrie.  Signet Classics, 1961

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Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach. Simon & Schuster, 2017

 

Hamill, Pete Downtown. My Manhattan.  Little Brown, 2004

 

Hijuelos, Oscar. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Farrar, Straus, and Geroux,1989

 

Hughes, Langston. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Knopf, 1994

 

Hustvedt, Siri.  What I Loved . Picador, 2003

 

Jackson, Kenneth T. and Dunbar, David S., editors. Empire City: New York Through the Centuries. Columbia University Press, 2002

 

James, Henry.  Washington Square. Harper & Row, 1966

 

Ng, Mei. Eating Chinese Food Naked. Scribner, 1998

 

Quinonez, Ernesto. Bodega Dreams. A Vintage Contemporaries Original, 2000

 

Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. Dover Publications, Inc.  1971

 

Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World. Doubleday, 2004

 

Simon, Kate. Fifth Avenue: A Very Social History.  Harcourt, 1978

 

Spiegelman , Art. In the Shadow of No Towers. Pantheon, 2004

 

Tax, Meredith. Rivington Street. First Illinois, 2001

 

Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. D. Appleton and Company, 1920

 

Whitman, Walt.  Selected Poems. Grosset and Dunlap, 1935

 

Wright, Richard. Introduction to Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945). University of Chicago Press, 1993

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Herman Melville

James Agee

Elizabeth Bishop,

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Allen Ginsberg

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Langston Hughes

Nikki Giovanni

Joan Didion

Caleb Carr

Djuna Barnes

Joseph Mitchell

Kurt Andersen

 

many many more