Fiction set in NYC

Here's a less-than-comprehensive list of fictional books set in the big apple. Please feel free to add any good ones I may have missed!

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

The Godfather – Mario Puzo

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – Judy Blume

‘Tis – Frank McCourt

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand

The Victim – Saul Bellow

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

Sex and the City – Candace Bushnell

The Hours – Michael Cunningham

The Dark Tower Series – Stephen King
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hhusted 2yrs+
My favorite is Dark Tower since Stephen King is my favorite author.
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Uraniumfish 2yrs+
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, plus Don Delillo's behemoth--it propped back my door for years and still can't remember the name now. This is a fun game to play.
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Uraniumfish 2yrs+
Underworld! by Don DeLillo.
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Uraniumfish 2yrs+
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

Also, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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hhusted 2yrs+
Didn't Underworld turn into a movie a few years ago? I'm trying to remember if Dark Tower was, but I believe it was never done as a movie.
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uptowngirl 2yrs+
Fab list BroadwayBk you beat me to it ...here are some of my additions - mostly from the chick lit genre-
The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn
Momzillas by Jill Kargman,
Bed Rest by Sarah Bilston
All three classify as light reading but give you an insight into life in the city
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BroadwayBK 2yrs+
@uptowngirl Your NYC movie list actually inspired me.

As far as chick lit goes, what about Shopaholic Takes Manhattan and Shophaholic Ties the Knot? The first of the series takes place in London, though the movie based on the book changes the setting to New York.
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uptowngirl 2yrs+
oh yes BroadwayBk how could I forget Becky Bloomwood and her mad adventures? on the way out from JFK though recently I spotted some more NYC based chick lit fiction - by an author called Emily Giffin - Babyproof, Something Borrowed and Something Blue.. cant wait to get home and order them from Amazon.com.. chick lit my guilty pleasure..
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BroadwayBK 2yrs+
And speaking of chick lit, I can't believe we forgot The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger and The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus!
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uptowngirl 2yrs+
oh yes! maybe we should start another list devoted just to chick lit!
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Uraniumfish 2yrs+
Wowa, you girls just went all chick lit on here all of a sudden. And I was so proud that I remembered the likes of Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem.
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