A New York reading list

In my quest to find books set in New York, I came across this wonderful list put together by Mannheim University and thought I'd share it with you.

The fiction titles listed are as follows:

Martin Amis Money
Paul Auster The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room
James Baldwin Another Country
John Franklin Bardin The Deadly Percheron; The Last of Philip Banter; Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly
Wilton Barnhardt Emma Who Saved My Life
Madison S. Bell The Year of Silence; Zero db and Waiting for the End of the World
William Boyd Stars and Bars
Jerome Charyn War Cries over Avenue C
John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever 
E.L. Doctorow Ragtime; Book of Daniel; World's Fair; Loon Lake; and Billy Bathgate
J.P. Donleavy A Fairy Tale of New York
Andrea Dworkin Ice and Fire
Brett Easton Ellis American Psycho
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Helene Hanff Apple of My Eye
Oscar Hijuelos Our House in the Last World
Chester Himes The Crazy Kill
Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance
Henry James Washington Square
Tama Janowitz Slaves of New York
Joyce Johnson Minor Characters; and In the Night Café
Stephen Koch The Bachelor's Bride
Joseph Koenig Little Odessa
Larry Kramer Faggots
Mary McCarthy The Group
Jay McInerney Bright Lights, Big City; Story of My Life and Brightness Falls
Henry Miller Crazy Cock; Sexus; Plexus; Nexus; Tropic of Cancer; and Tropic of Capricorn
Ann Petry The Street
Thomas Pynchon V
Judith Rossner Looking for Mr Goodbar
Henry Roth Call It Sleep
Paul Rudnick Social Disease
Damon Runyon First to Last; On Broadway; and Guys and Dolls
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Sarah Schulman The Sophie Horowitz Story; After Dolores; Girls; Visions and Everything
Hubert Selby Jr. Last Exit to Brooklyn
Dyan Sheldon Dreams of an Average Man
Isaac Bashevis Singer Enemies
Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Rex Stout The Doorbell Rang 
Edith Wharton Old New York; Hudson River Bracketed; and The Mother's Recompense
Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities

Comments

[Ed]

I have read hardly any of these. But I can add "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote.

[kimbofo]

Thanks Ed. That's a great book, and one I read for the first time last year.

[Isabel]

I recently read Brooklyn Follies by Auster; check out my blog.

I read all the Doctorow, except Loon Lake - wonderful.

[Isabel]

This falls under alternate realities/time travel/sci fi, but it's great.

Jack Finney - Time and Again and From Time to Time.

Person travels back into time to NYC in the early 20th century for the FBI.

My paperback version had a lot of old pictures. The character kept trying to orient himself. A lot of NYC was torn down to build the skyscrapers. The apartments where John Lennon lived was considered "country". I remember seeing a picture of the building, surrounded by working farms!

[Maxine]

Jeb Rubenfield's recent bestseller?

[kimbofo]

Isabel, the Jack Finney books sound intriguing. I looked them up on Amazon -- some glowing reviews. Thanks for the tip off.

Maxine, I'm trying to avoid that one -- have heard so many bad things about it. Have you read it?

[Possum Magic]

When I did an exchange to a college in New York state I took a course on New York City. Part of the assigned reading was Ragtime and Bonfire of the Vanities. I thought both were interesting; and set the scene for a visit to the city.