Browse NYC Reading Shelf ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNINGCITY GUIDESCITY KIDSCITY LIFECOFFEE TABLE BOOKSFICTIONAL NYCFOOD & DRINKHISTORY & BIOGRAPHIESLITERARY NYCNYC CLASSICSPARKS & GARDENSTHE ARTSTHE NEW YORKERWILD NYCYOUNG ADULT NYC HISTORY & BIOGRAPHIES Featured Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America by Russell Shorto The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto WINNER PULITZER PRIZE Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace A History of New York in 101 Objects by Sam Roberts The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Ron Chernow New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore 1776 by David McCullough