Carol
by Patricia Highsmith
- Setting
- Midtown Manhattan, at a department store toy counter, 1950s
- About
- First published in 1952 as The Price of Salt.
- Source
- our page for the book
- ISBN
- 9780393325997
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Books set in Manhattan, New York
3 books pinned here. The pin marks the named place.
Going Down in Gotham
by Zoe Hansen
- Setting
- Manhattan, 1980s, by way of London
- About
- A memoir of MTV, heroin, and a madam's-eye view of the city.
- Source
- Book & Shores
- ISBN
- 9798994335628
Office Politics
by Wilfrid Sheed (1966)
- Setting
- A drab office on the east side of Manhattan: the staff of The Outsider, a small highbrow weekly, 1960s
- About
- A McNally Editions reissue of the 1966 novel, and one of the books Jonathan Lethem champions as our Author of the Month for November 2026.
- Source
- our page for the book
- ISBN
- 9781961341180