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• The Party (originally published as "Babes and Sucklings"; New York: Popular Library, 1929), by Philip Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cousin Paul (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1868), by Jessie Glenn (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (10-story Macmillan edition), by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Empire City: or, New York by Night and Day, Its Aristocracy and Its Dollars (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Bros., c1864), by George Lippard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Greater Inclination, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• High Life in New York (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1873), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hungry Hearts (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Anzia Yezierska (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)
• New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sixty-First Second (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1913), by Owen Johnson, illust. by A. B. Wenzell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Buccaneers (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1938), by Edith Wharton (page images at Michigan)

• New Year's Day (The 'Seventies) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• False Dawn (The 'Forties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Dark Metropolis (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1936), by John Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Duke and His Double (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1903), by Edward S. Van Zile, illust. by Florence Scovel Shinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opus 21: Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age; A Concerto for a One-Man Band; Six Arias for Soap Operas; Fugues, Anthems and Barrelhouse (a novel; New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Co., c1949), by Philip Wylie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Good Sports (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1919), by Olive Higgins Prouty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Woman Gives: A Story of Regeneration (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1916), by Owen Johnson, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• My New York (New York: Macmillan, 1930), by Mabel Osgood Wright, illust. by Ivin Sickels (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York (second edition; New York: Henry Collins Brown, 1920), by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York, by Junius Henri Browne (page images at MOA)
• Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City (c1872), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Darkness and Daylight: or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1893), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Thomas Byrnes, contrib. by Lyman Abbott (page images at Harvard)
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Fashion: or, Life in New York: A Comedy in Five Acts (London: W. Newbery, 1850), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (multiple formats at Google)

• The Day in Bohemia, or Life Among the Artists, by John Reed (HTML at swbell.net)

• The Innocents: A Story for Lovers (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1917), by Sinclair Lewis, illust. by Worth Brehm (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Princess Daphne: A Novel (Chicago et al.: Belford, Clarke, and Co., 1888), by Edward Heron-Allen and Selina Dolaro
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Von Toodleburgs: or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1868), by F. Colburn Adams, illust. by Alfred R. Waud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Happiest Time of Their Lives, by Alice Duer Miller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography (originally published serially in 1852; reprinted with commentary in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 2017), by Walt Whitman, contrib. by Zachary Turpin
  • introduction by Turpin: PDF at uiowa.edu
  • novel: PDF at uiowa.edu
• Beasts of New York: A Children's Book for Grown-Ups (2007), by Jon Evans (multiple formats with commentary at beastsofnewyork.com)
• The Torch (originally published 1920; this edition 1951), by Jack Bechdolt (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• In a Yellow Wood (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1947), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Savage Holiday (originally published 1954; this edition New York: Award Books; London: Tandem Books, 1969), by Richard Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mayor Harding of New York: A Novel (published under "Stephen Endicott" pseudonym; New York: Mohawk Press, 1931), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Auction Block, by Rex Beach (Gutenberg text)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (with annotations), by Herman Melville (HTML at slate.com)
• The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband, by Ring Lardner, illust. by May Wilson Preston (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)
• The Bow of Orange Ribbon (New York: A. D. Porter Co., c1886), by Amelia E. Barr (HTML at Emory)
• The Bow of Orange Ribbon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1893), by Amelia E. Barr, illust. by Theodor Hampe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Caesar's Column (Caesars Soile): En Beretning fra det Tyvende Aarhundrede (in Norwegian; Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., 1892), by Ignatius Donnelly (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., c1890), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Caesars Kolonn: En Berattelse fran Tjugonde Arhundradet (in Swedish; Chicago: Swedish Book Co., 1891), by Ignatius Donnelly, trans. by Jakob Bonggren
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Daughter of Two Worlds: A Novel of New York Life (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Leroy Scott (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Definite Object: A Romance of New York, by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text)
• Drama Budoucnosti: Z historie XX. Století (Caesar's Column in Czech; Prague: J. R. Vilimek, n.d.), by Ignatius Donnelly, trans. by Václav Patejdl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Enemy (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester, illust. by A. B. Wenzell
  • multiple format at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Fashion and Famine (New York: Bunce and Brother, 1854), by Ann S. Stephens
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• Jung-Amerika: Bilder aus dem New Yorker Leben (in German; Breslau: S. Schottlaender, 1884), by Sara Hutzler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lady Athlyne (scanned from serial publications in the Evening Star and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; 1909), by Bram Stoker (PDF with commentary at bramstoker.org)
• The Mysteries and Miseries of New York: A Story of Real Life (5 parts in 1; New York: Berford and Co., 1848), by Ned Buntline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Clinkers: A Story of the New York Fire Department (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1909), by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, illust. by Martin Justice (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Louis Tracy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Säätynsä Uhri (Finnish translation of "The House of Mirth"; Kelsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kirja, 1922), by Edith Wharton, trans. by Armas Hämäläinen (Gutenberg text)
• Scrope, or, The Lost Library: A Novel of New York and Hartford (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Frederic B. Perkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Spirits White as Lightning (on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Vistas of New York (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1912), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wonder Jack, the Detective: or, The Witch of Manhattan (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., c1894), by Old Sleuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Carrie (restored text; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), by Theodore Dreiser, ed. by John C. Berkey, Alice M. Winters, James L. W. West, and Neda M. Westlake (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Kidnap Club (New York: Macaulay, c1932), by Arthur B. Reeve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Visa to Death (new edition of The Best That Ever Did It; New York: Permabooks, 1956), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gutenberg text)
• The Beautiful and Damned (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Best That Ever Did It (New York: Harper and Bros., 1955), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boomerang (second edition; New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1915), by William Hamilton Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bostonians, by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• Bowery Tales: George's Mother; Maggie (London: W. Heinemann, 1900), by Stephen Crane
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Bust of Lincoln (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1912), by James Francis Dwyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Confessions of Artemas Quibble, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• The Dream Doctor, by Arthur B. Reeve (Gutenberg text)
• Ester Ried, by Isabella Macdonald Alden (Gutenberg text)
• Fettered for Life, or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-Day (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1874), by Lillie Devereux Blake
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• A Gentleman of Leisure (c1921), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• His Family (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Ernest Poole (Gutenberg text)
• J. Poindexter, Colored (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1922), by Irvin S. Cobb (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Job (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1917), by Sinclair Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manhattan Transfer (first edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1925), by John Dos Passos (multiple formats at Google)
• Partners of the Night (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1916), by Leroy Scott, illust. by Dalton Stevens (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Social Gangster (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1916), by Arthur B. Reeve, illust. by Will Foster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Something Doing (published as by "Varick Vanardy"; New York: The Macaulay Co., c1919), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, illust. by George W. Gage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Soul Scar: A Craig Kennedy Scientific Mystery Novel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1919), by Arthur B. Reeve, illust. by F. Graham Cootes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tales for Fifteen, or, Imagination and Heart, by James Fenimore Cooper
  • HTML with commentary at James Fenimore Cooper Society
  • Gutenberg text
• Tutt and Mr. Tutt, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1921), by Brander Matthews, contrib. by W. C. Brownell, illust. by W. T. Smedley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The War Terror, by Arthur B. Reeve (Gutenberg text)
• Wits and the Woman (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1919), by Violet Irwin, illust. by Christine Tucke Curtiss
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)
• Live With Lightning: A Novel (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1949), by Mitchell A. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death of a Celebrity (c1938), by Hulbert Footner (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Old Man Tutt (c1938), by Arthur Train (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• James Shore's Daughter (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1934), by Stephen Vincent Benét (page images at HathiTrust)
• All I Could Never Be (New York: Brewer, Warren and Putnam, c1932), by Anzia Yezierska (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Innocence (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1920), by Edith Wharton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Bartleby
• By Advice of Counsel: Being Adventures of the Celebrated Firm of Tutt and Tutt, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, by Arthur Train, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The First Person Singular (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1922), by William Rose Benét
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur Detectives (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Ben Hecht, illust. by Wallace Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1919), by Arthur Stringer, illust. by Frank Snapp
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Mrs. Christy's Bridge Party (c1907), by Sara Ware Bassett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Music to My Sorrow (included on a Baen CD), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• Rahanvaihtajat (The Moneychangers translated into Finnish; 1915), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg text)
• Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Sister Carrie (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1900), by Theodore Dreiser
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at Wayback Machine
• Sister Carrie (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1907), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The World of Henry Orient, by Nora Johnson (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)
• The Thin Man (c1934), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Passing (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1929), by Nella Larsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Flight (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Walter White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventuress: A Craig Kennedy Detective Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1917), by Arthur B. Reeve, illust. by Will Foster
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Beyond World's End (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Charlotte Temple, by Mrs. Rowson (Gutenberg text)
• Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Ewer, 1824), by Mrs. Rowson (multiple formats at Google)
• Mad Maudlin (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• May Iverson's Career (New York and London: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by Elizabeth Garver Jordan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and audio)

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