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The essentials: Top ten books about New York City

Required reading for anyone who wants to really know New York

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920. An insider's look at the city's upper class in the 1870s, wrapped around a gentleman's love story.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith, 1943. The coming-of-age tale of a girl and her Irish-American family in early 20th-century Brooklyn.

Here is New York, E.B. White, 1949....

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