modern or classic, that you found fun to read, like the style of the movie 'you've got mail'.
If you know another one set in egypt as well, state it please.
2006-12-09 17:04:15 · 5 answers · asked by mariamofcairo 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Novels set in NYC:
'Catcher in the Rye' - J.D. Salinger
'Found In The Street' - Patricia Highsmith
'Washington Square' - Henry James
'Meditations in Green' - Stephen Wright
'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' - Betty Smith
'The Recognitions' - William Gaddis
'Last Exit To Brooklyn' - Hubert Selby Jr
'Sophie's Choice' - William Styron
'Junky' - William S Burroughs
'The Godfather' - Mario Puzo
'The Great Gatsby' - F Scott Fitzgerald
'Joe Gould's Secret' - Joseph Mitchell
'Breakfast at Tiffany's' - Truman Capote
'Go Tell It On The Mountain' - James Baldwin
'Motherless Brooklyn' - Jonathan Lethem
'On The Road' - Jack Kerouac (partially)
'Lolita' - Vladimir Nabokov (partially)
'Amerika' - Franz Kafka
'The Invisible Man' - Ralph Ellison
'Miss Lonelyhearts' - Nathanael West
'American Psycho' - Brett Easton Ellis
'Bright Lights, Big City' - Jay Mcinerney
'The Bonfire of the Vanities' - Tom Wolfe
'Blackboard Jungle' - Evan Hunter
'Strangers on a Train' - Patricia Highsmith
'Naked Lunch' - William S Burroughs
'The Thin Man' - Dashiell Hammett
'Rosemary's Baby' - Ira Levin
'Sister Carrie' - Theodore Dreiser
'Manhattan Transfer' - John Dos Passos
'Lives of the Monster Dogs' - Kirsten Bakis
'The Chosen' - Chaim Potok
'Great Jones Street' - Don Delillo
'Billy Bathgate' - E.L. Doctorow
'The Alienist' - Caleb Carr
'The Devil Wears Prada' - Lauren Weisberger
'From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler' - E.L Konigsburg
'Stuart Little' - E.B. White
'Memnoch the Devil' - Anne Rice
'Pierre' - Herman Melville
2006-12-09 17:46:58 · answer #1 · answered by probablestars 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Time and Again" by Jack Finney, a story about time travel into the past of New York City, beautifully told.
and, although it's a memoir, not a novel, I'd highly recommend "84, Charing Cross Road" by Helene Hanff. It's thirty years of letters between Hanff, an author living in Manhattan, and a London bookseller. It's a quick, fun read.
2006-12-09 17:09:55 · answer #2 · answered by SL_SF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Makes Sammy Run?
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Godfather
2006-12-09 18:24:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
O.K., a book set in New York City? I can only think of one, and I do not think that it is a novel...A Cricket in Times Square...
If you want a good movie, try watching Kate and Leopold. It is (I think, it's been awhile) set in NYC, and also has Meg Ryan in it. It's one of my favorite movies! Enjoy it with some popcorn and a few girl friends!
2006-12-09 17:31:00 · answer #4 · answered by Alicia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Gatsby
2006-12-09 17:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by Math Help 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋