The 100 Books Every New Yorker Should Read

What does it mean to know a city? Without a doubt, you need to have lived in it. You need to have walked its streets, explored its parks and waterways; you should eat in its restaurants, feel invested in its institutions, both large and small. You need not have visited every corner of it, perhaps, but you need to know of their existence. But even if you do all this, you might still be missing the larger context of a place, an awareness of its history, its triumphs and troubles. And so there&rsqu