Favorite New York Fiction, In Alphabetical Order by Author
- Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
- Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
- Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
- John Cheever, The Collected Stories
- Junot Diaz, Drown
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad
- Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior
- Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
- Colin Harrison, The Finder
- Zoe Heller, The Believers
- Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything
- Henry James, Washington Square
- Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker
- Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
- Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
- Mary McCarthy, The Group
- Jay McInerney, Bright Lights Big City
- Jay McInerney, Story of My Life
- Claire Messud, The Emperor’s Children
- Joseph O’Neill, Netherland
- Ed Park, Personal Days
- Richard Price, Lush Life
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
- Whit Stillman, The Last Days of Disco
- Kay Thompson, Eloise
- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
- Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
- Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist
- Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities
Always looking for more suggestions, so what else should be on this list?
