New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction books

I am a woman

Ann Bannon

The novel is a mid‑century American romance that follows Laura, a young woman who flees an abusive,…

Torchy and Vee

Sewell Ford

Torchy and Vee is a collection of short, humor‑tinged stories set against the backdrop of World War I…

The Green Mouse

Robert W. Chambers

The Green Mouse is a whimsical blend of fantasy and early‑twentieth‑century New York society, framed as a…

Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole

Fannie Hurst

Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole is a collection of short stories by Fannie Hurst, first…

The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York

Edward Eggleston

The Faith Doctor is a late‑Victorian novel that sets its scene in the bustling streets of New York, using the…

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Herman Melville

The work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century novella that frames itself as a memoir of a modest New York…

Children of the Tenements

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis’s Children of the Tenements is a collection of short, reportage‑style stories drawn from his…

One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York

Louis Tracy

The work is a fast‑moving romance set against the bustling backdrop of early‑20th‑century New York.

The Art of Disappearing

John Talbot Smith

The Art of Disappearing is a turn‑of‑the‑century New York novel that weaves together themes of disguise,…

Shorty McCabe on the Job

Sewell Ford

Shorty McCabe on the Job is a bustling urban caper set in early‑twentieth‑century New York, presented as a…

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe

Sewell Ford

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe is a comic slice of early‑20th‑century New York life,…

Shorty McCabe

Sewell Ford

Shorty McCabe is a comic, first‑person yarn set in the bustling underbelly of early‑20th‑century New York.

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

The novel opens amid the glittering ritual of a New York winter opera, where society’s elite arrive in…

The Scarlet Feather

Houghton Townley

The Scarlet Feather is a turn‑of‑the‑century New York family drama that begins inside the opulent yet cramped…

The unknown seven: A detective story

Herman Landon

The Unknown Seven is a hard‑boiled detective tale set in early twentieth‑century New York, and it launches…

Making People Happy

Thompson Buchanan

The work is a stage‑like comedy set in a New York drawing‑room, where a newly married woman, Cicily Hamilton,…

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth is a social and psychological novel set in turn‑of‑the‑century New York, where the…

Joan and Co.

Frederick Orin Bartlett

The novel opens in the glittering world of New York’s social season, where the young debutante Joan Fairburne…

That Affair Next Door

Anna Katharine Green

The novel opens on a fog‑shrouded New York street, where the narrator, a curious neighbor, watches a…

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel opens in 1913 with the introspective young heir Anthony Patch, a twenty‑five‑year‑old who balances…

Sister Carrie: A Novel

Theodore Dreiser

The novel opens with Caroline Meeber, an eighteen‑year‑old from a modest Midwestern village, boarding an…

East of Eden

Isa Glenn

Isa Glenn’s East of Eden is a literary roman à clef set in the bustling world of 1930s New York, where the…

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Stephen Crane

Charlotte Temple

Mrs. Rowson