The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop

Donnie Brasco

Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 pages

Blue Blood

Edward Conlon · 594 pages

Harvard-educated Edward Conlon is fourth-generation NYPD. Having ascended the ranks from South Bronx beat cop to detective, he knows the city as well as any person can. And what's more--he knows how to tell the stories that bring the city to life as no book ever has.

Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story

Rebecca Dana · 274 pages

A weekly columnist for "The Daily Beast" recounts the story of the launch of her career, a period marked by her graduation from Yale, unanticipated setbacks that culminated in brief homelessness in New York, and a Russian rabbi roommate.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Toby Young · 342 pages

The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir

Tara Clancy · 256 pages

Curbchek

Zach Fortier

How to Murder Your Life

Cat Marnell · 379 pages

"From Cat Marnell, 'New York's enfant terrible' (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America--and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret

Superficial: More Adventures from The Andy Cohen Diaries

Andy Cohen · 357 pages

"The star-studded and sidesplitting follow up to The Andy Cohen Diaries The megapopular host of Watch What Happens: Live and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise is back, better than ever, and telling stories that will keep his publicist up at night. Since the publication of his last book, Andy has toured the country with his sidekick Anderson Cooper, hit the radio waves with his ow

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

Ruth Reichl · 352 pages

The editor-in-chief of "Gourmet" recounts her visits to some of the world's most acclaimed restaurants, both as herself and as an anonymous diner in disguise, to offer insight into the differences in her dining experiences.

The Year of Yes: The True Story of a Girl, a Few Hundred Dates, and Fate

Maria Dahvana Headley · 306 pages

Headley, a wise-cracking New York City girl with as much wit as any character on Sex and the City, is jaded and cynical about men in New York. She vows to say yes to any and every person who asks her out – a taxi driver, a homeless man – you name it, she'll say yes for an entire year. By the year's end, she meets the man she eventually marries.'The Year of Yes' is the hilarious and hopeful true ac

Stuffed

Patricia Volk · 256 pages

"In a restaurant family, you're never just hungry - you're starving to death. And you're never full - you're stuffed.". "Patricia Volk's family is as American (background: Austrian-Jewish) as "Rhapsody in Blue." They came to these shores determined to make their mark; each of them is a piquant morsel of history. Great-grandfather Sussman Volk brought pastrami to the New World. Grandfather Jacob w

Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel

Nicolaia Rips · 272 pages

"'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens

Underfoot in Show Business

Helene Hanff · 177 pages

Helene Hanff's witty memoir of her adventures and misadventures as an aspiring playwright in New York City, 1940s-1960s.

POPism: The Warhol Sixties

Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett · 402 pages

The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir

Dave Van Ronk · 246 pages

One ranger

H. Joaquin Jackson · 279 pages

Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

Vivian Gornick · 203 pages

Vivian Gornick's brave and deeply moving memoir is a tour de force, a book that dissects one of life's most complex, maddening and closely entwined alliances - the relationship between mother and daughter. Heralded as a landmark in American autobiography, *Fierce Attachments* probes the intimate, sometimes destructive family passions that can shape a woman's childhood - and change her life forever

Good Mourning

Elizabeth Meyer, Caitlin Moscatello · 280 pages

"In this funny, insightful memoir, a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City’s Upper East Side. Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the country--where not even big money can protect you from the universal experience of grieving. It’s Gossip Girl meets Six Feet Under, told from the

700 Sundays

Billy Crystal · 187 pages

To support his family, Billy Crystal's father, Jack, worked two jobs, having only one day a week to spend with his family. Based on Crystal's one-man Broadway show of the same name, "700 Sundays"--referring sadly to the time shared by an adoring father and his devoted son--offers a heartfelt, hilarious memoir. Photos throughout.

Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

Sandeep Jauhar · 320 pages

Intern is Dr. Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question his every assumption about medical care today. Residency―and especially its first year, the internship―is legendary for its brutality, and Jauhar's experience was even more harrowing than most. He switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a mo

The Happy Hooker

Xaviera Hollander, Robin Moore, Yvonne Dunleavy

The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir

Cylin Busby, John Busby

A Walker in the City

Alfred Kazin · 176 pages

The acclaimed story of a soul awakening to the ecstasy of the senses, the power of language, and the meaning of existence. Kazin's memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to "Americanca"--The larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s.

Life with Father

Clarence Day Jr. · 258 pages