CITY · UNITED STATESBooks set in New York City, New York
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16 books · 16 authors · 1961–2025
16 books here
Most-set authors
Tiffany Clarke Harrison (1) · Coco Mellors (1) · Walter Mosley (1) · Lin-Manuel Miranda (1) · Saul Bellow (1) · A.R. Vishny (1)
Genres
romance (2) · thriller & suspense (1)
Books set here
Set in New York City, New York (12)
Blue Hour
Tiffany Clarke Harrison
Post-Floyd New York — a Black Japanese photographer confronts racial violence and infertility
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors
Tribeca, East Village art world
Every Man a King
Walter Mosley
Contemporary NYC — Black private detective King Oliver investigates a nationalist murder frame-up
Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Broadway — Richard Rodgers Theatre, where Hamilton premiered; also the musical's primary narrative setting
Night Owls
A.R. Vishny
Manhattan's Second Avenue — Grand Dame Cinema on the Yiddish Rialto; Clara and Molly's world
Soundtrack: A Novel
Jason Reynolds
Lower East Side and NYC subway stations — 18-year-old Stuy busks with his band
The First Tycoon
T.J. Stiles
Vanderbilt's empire — from Staten Island ferries to Manhattan railroad dominance
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
Leo solitary New York life
The Sequel
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Literary New York — Anna navigates publishing, authorship, and the darker world of her own debut novel
The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn
Upper West Side brownstone — Anna Fox's home and the entire setting
Triple Sec
TJ Alexander
Terror & Virtue cocktail lounge — Mel's bar, where the polyamorous romance unfolds
Up With the Sun
Thomas Mallon
Broadway and Manhattan — Dick Kallman's show-biz career from 1950s studio lots to 1970s seedy streets
Also featuring New York City, New York (4)
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Urban backdrop for Herzog's neurotic drift
Portrait of a Thief
Grace D. Li
The Met — one of the five heist targets in the novel
The Dark Maestro
Brendan Slocumb
Juilliard, NY Philharmonic debut
Your Steps on the Stairs
Antonio Munoz Molina
Post-9/11 New York — where the wife stays for her neuroscience research; formative apartment
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