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Workhorse

Caroline Palmer · 650 pages

"Fierce, funny and unflinching."—Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters A richly drawn, unsettling, and wickedly funny story of envy and ambition set against the glamor and privilege of media and high society in New York City at its height. At the turn of the millennium, Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the world

Camilla

Madeleine L'Engle · 278 pages

The Swans of Fifth Avenue

Melanie Benjamin

Goodbye Stranger

Rebecca Stead · 304 pages

As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvaceous Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"

Something Borrowed

Emily Giffin · 322 pages

Something Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl---until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiancé. Although she wakes up determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to di

The Girl in Times Square

Paullina Simons · 640 pages

Girls in Trucks

Katie Crouch · 276 pages

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as

Our Little Racket

Angelica Baker · 617 pages

In the aftermath of the collapse of Weiss & Partners investment bank, CEO Bob D'Amico's daughter Madison, her mother, her best friend, her nanny, and a family friend begin to question their shifting roles in the insular, moneyed world of Greenwich, Connecticut. All these women have witnessed more than they've disclosed, all harbor secret insecurities and fears, and all must ask themselves: where i

The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer · 560 pages

The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty. Their friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their tal

This Time Tomorrow

Emma Straub · 310 pages

The Best of Everything

Rona Jaffe · 442 pages

When Rona Jaffe's superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions more were electrified when they saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. Almost sixty years later, The Best of Everything remains touchingly—and sometimes hilariously—true to the personal and profes

Friendship

Emily Gould · 272 pages

"A novel about two best friends living in New York in their early 30s, whose relationship changes when one unexpectedly becomes pregnant"--

Brooklyn Girls

Gemma Burgess · 309 pages

The Art of Forgetting

Camille Pagan · 291 pages

Marissa Rogers never wanted to be an alpha; beta suited her just fine. Taking charge without taking credit had always paid off: vaulting her to senior editor at a glossy magazine; keeping the peace with her critical, weight-obsessed mother; and enjoying the benefits of being best friends with gorgeous, charismatic, absolutely alpha Julia Ferrar. When Julia gets hit by a cab, she survives with mino

The Clique

Lisi Harrison · 220 pages

Enter the world of the clique - where the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

Rich and Pretty

Rumaan Alam · 299 pages

This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives. As close as sisters for twenty years, Sarah and Lauren have been together through high school and college, first jobs and first loves, the uncertainties of their twenties and t

A Fortunate Age

Joanna Smith Rakoff · 399 pages

A group of 1990s-era Oberlin graduates forge a friendship based on shared dreams, but find their camaraderie threatened by their youthful mistakes, their relationships with egocentric and insecure men, and the September 11 attacks.

Rules of Civility

Amor Towles · 352 pages

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.

The Assistants

Camille Perri · 296 pages

When a technical error at a multinational media conglomerate gives a financially strapped veteran employee a chance to pay off her student loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on a downward spiral involving other employees with crushing debts and fewer scruples.

Summer and the City

Candace Bushnell · 409 pages

Carrie Bradshaw beleeft haar eerste weken in New York en moet allerlei tegenslagen overwinnen om zich te verzekeren van haar plaats in de Big Apple. Prequel bij 'Sex and the City' en vervolg op 'The Carrie diaries'. Carrie Bradshaw beleeft haar eerste weken in New York en moet allerlei tegenslagen overwinnen om zich te verzekeren van haar plaats in de Big Apple. Prequel bij 'Sex and the City' e

Bennington Girls Are Easy

Charlotte Silver · 257 pages

A funny coming-of-age novel that follows two recent Bennington grads who are determined to make it in the Big Apple. Bennington College, refuge for the wayward daughters of good families, maintains a saucy reputation for attracting free spirits. Cassandra Puffin and Sylvie Furst cement what they ardently believe will be everlasting friendship on Bennington's idyllic Vermont campus. Graduation see

Chasing Harry Winston

Lauren Weisberger · 304 pages

Gossip Girl

Cecily von Ziegesar · 203 pages

Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep—sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren’t careful, she’s going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn’t fit into, steal our boyfriends’ hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I’ll be watching closely . . . You know you love me,

With Friends Like These

Sally Koslow · 336 pages

Forging a deep friendship in spite of their differences, former roommates Quincy, Jules, Talia and Chloe struggle with respective challenges in the ensuing years, which are complicated by their illusion-based comparisons to one another's circumstances.