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Murder on Lexington Avenue

Murder on Lexington Avenue
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Poppy Denby Investigates Book 3 New York, 1921. Poppy Denby, star reporter for the Daily Globe is ready to set sail for a new adventure across the pond and join her boss for a stint at The New York...

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...

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.

No Matter What

No Matter What
  • Author(s): Cara Bastone
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Roz and Vin can’t look each other in the eyes anymore, let alone share a bed. It’s been a year since they survived a traumatic car accident and their marriage hasn’t been the same. But Roz has held out...

Ordinary Love

Ordinary Love
  • Author(s): Marie Rutkoski
  • Location(s): Manhattan, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s no such thing as an ordinary love story When Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought...

Oreo

Oreo
  • Author(s): Fran Ross
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note. Oreo’s quest is to find...

Perfectly Impossible

Perfectly Impossible
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Topp
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this witty debut novel, Elizabeth Topp crafts a story that ventures behind the fanciful facade of Park Avenue and into the life of one lovable type A assistant. Anna’s job is simple: prevent the unexpected from happening and...

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
  • Author(s): Sophie Kinsella
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): very early 2000s

With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky Bloomwood’s biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. That is, until...

Silver Bells

Silver Bells
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Every year on the first day of December, Christopher Byrne traveled from his farm in Nova Scotia to sell his Christmas trees on the streets of Manhattan. But this year there’d be no cheer for the widower and his...

Stowaways

Stowaways
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Maybe we love people because they won’t let us know them.’ A summer’s evening in Manhattan. Nothing – not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore – can undo the heat’s...

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