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My Mother’s House

My Mother’s House
  • Author(s): Francesca Momplaisir
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For fans of Edwidge Danticat, Mehsin Hamid, Kate Atkinson, and Jesmyn Ward: a literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one person’s damages can have on the lives of others–told...

My Salinger Year

My Salinger Year
  • Author(s): Joanna Rakoff
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of...

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  • Author(s): Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists...

Nasty Cutter

Nasty Cutter
  • Author(s): Tim O'Mara
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Danger gets a little too close to home for ex-cop Raymond Donne …When his father’s former law partner, Harry Stover, is murdered while being celebrated as Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s “Man of the Year,” ex-cop turned schoolteacher Raymond Donne fights his...

Native Speaker

Native Speaker
  • Author(s): Chang-rae Lee
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Political
  • Era(s): Modern

Another page-turner in the espionage thriller fold, the Native Speaker is the debut novel and political thriller book by Korean-American writer Chang-Rae Lee. While the political espionage theme in this fabulous novel functions as much as a metaphor than...

Neruda on the Park

Neruda on the Park
  • Author(s): Cleyvis Natera
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands by devising...

Netherland

Netherland
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Neill
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he...

New Brighton

New Brighton
  • Author(s): Helen Trevorrow
  • Location(s): Brighton, Antarctica, Argentina, New York City (NYC), Portland (Oregon)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Contemporary

During a vicious storm, a battered ship runs aground on Brighton beach. While the city on the sea comes to a ghostly standstill, the unusual event triggers an epic journey for young waitress, Robyn Lockhart. First, Robyn needs to...

New York 2140

New York 2140
  • Author(s): Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi, Future
  • Era(s): Mid 22nd Century

As the sea level rose, every street became a canal, every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city.

New York Dead

New York Dead
  • Author(s): Stuart Woods
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he’s too smart to be a cop, but it’s pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns...

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