Skip to content
Your Trusted NYC Bookstore for More Than 40 Years ∙ Now Offering Art Supplies!
Your Trusted NYC Bookstore for More Than 40 Years ∙ Now Offering Art Supplies!

NYC Nook

Explore NYC through books, stories, and exclusive finds at Shakespeare & Co.'s New York Collection! Celebrate the city that never sleeps with captivating histories and thrilling fiction set in the Big Apple, along with city guides and unique NYC-inspired merchandise that capture the essence of this vibrant metropolis!

Filters

$
$

Weird But True New York City

National Geographic
Original price $8.99 - Original price $8.99
Original price
$8.99
$8.99 - $8.99
Current price $8.99

Think you know the Big Apple? Think again!Did you know that 25 species of shark swim off NYC's coastline?Or that astronauts can see the lights of T...

View full details
Original price $8.99 - Original price $8.99
Original price
$8.99
$8.99 - $8.99
Current price $8.99

An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2025

Susan Gail Johnson
Original price $12.95 - Original price $12.95
Original price
$12.95
$12.95 - $12.95
Current price $12.95

A pocket-sized guide to goings-on in New York City―now in its fourth year!This attractive little volume offers a day-by-day guide to the coming yea...

View full details
Original price $12.95 - Original price $12.95
Original price
$12.95
$12.95 - $12.95
Current price $12.95

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

Julie Satow
Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50
Original price
$32.50
$32.50 - $32.50
Current price $32.50

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from t...

View full details
Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50
Original price
$32.50
$32.50 - $32.50
Current price $32.50

Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough

Ian Frazier
Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00
Original price
$35.00
$35.00 - $35.00
Current price $35.00

Ian Frazier’s magnum opus: a love song to New York City’s most heterogeneous and alive borough.For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been wal...

View full details
Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00
Original price
$35.00
$35.00 - $35.00
Current price $35.00

Night-Night New York City: A Sweet Goodnight Board Book for Kids and Toddlers

Katherine Sully, Helen Poole
Original price $9.99 - Original price $9.99
Original price
$9.99
$9.99 - $9.99
Current price $9.99

It's time to turn out the lights and say "night-night" to New York City with this bedtime baby book featuring landmarks and locations in the Big Ap...

View full details
Original price $9.99 - Original price $9.99
Original price
$9.99
$9.99 - $9.99
Current price $9.99

Count To Sleep New York City

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper, Joe Veno
Original price $9.95 - Original price $9.95
Original price
$9.95
$9.95 - $9.95
Current price $9.95

Count to Sleep New York City features the Statue of Liberty, hot dog stands, taxi cabs, Central Park, Broadway theaters, library lions, bridges, Ro...

View full details
Original price $9.95 - Original price $9.95
Original price
$9.95
$9.95 - $9.95
Current price $9.95

Good Night Central Park (Good Night Our World)

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper, Ruth Palmer
Original price $9.95 - Original price $9.95
Original price
$9.95
$9.95 - $9.95
Current price $9.95

Good Night Central Park explores the Central Park Zoo, street performers, statues, the various pools and ponds, Lasker Rink and Pool, Conservatory ...

View full details
Original price $9.95 - Original price $9.95
Original price
$9.95
$9.95 - $9.95
Current price $9.95

Mr. Boddington's Studio: NYC ABCs

Mr. Boddington's Studio
Original price $9.99 - Original price $9.99
Original price
$9.99
$9.99 - $9.99
Current price $9.99

Based on the beautiful designs of Mr. Boddington's Studio, this board book is the perfect introduction to the ABCs of NYC.This board book teaches t...

View full details
Original price $9.99 - Original price $9.99
Original price
$9.99
$9.99 - $9.99
Current price $9.99

Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man: New York in the Sixties

Michael Findlay
Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00
Original price
$35.00
$35.00 - $35.00
Current price $35.00

This memoir from the influential art dealer and author offers an up close and personal perspective on New York’s vibrant art scene of the sixties a...

View full details
Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00
Original price
$35.00
$35.00 - $35.00
Current price $35.00

Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York

Guy Trebay
Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00
Original price
$29.00
$29.00 - $29.00
Current price $29.00

An evocative coming-of-age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found ref...

View full details
Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00
Original price
$29.00
$29.00 - $29.00
Current price $29.00

The Princess of 72nd Street: A Novel

Elaine Kraf
Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00 - $18.00
Current price $18.00

I am glad I have the radiance. This time I am wiser. No one will know... The radiance drifts blue circles around my head. If I wanted to I could fl...

View full details
Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00 - $18.00
Current price $18.00

Elizabeth of East Hampton (2) (For the Love of Austen)

Audrey Bellezza, Emily Harding
Original price $18.99 - Original price $18.99
Original price
$18.99
$18.99 - $18.99
Current price $18.99

This fresh and whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice—from the authors of the “great beach read” (Bookreporter) E...

View full details
Original price $18.99 - Original price $18.99
Original price
$18.99
$18.99 - $18.99
Current price $18.99

Long Island Compromise: A Novel

Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00
Original price
$30.00
$30.00 - $30.00
Current price $30.00

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York ...

View full details
Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00
Original price
$30.00
$30.00 - $30.00
Current price $30.00

Central Park West: A Crime Novel

James Comey
Original price $17.95 - Original price $17.95
Original price
$17.95
$17.95 - $17.95
Current price $17.95

A Newsweek and Reader's Digest most-anticipated read of 2023. In the thrilling first crime novel from the former director of the FBI, a murder inve...

View full details
Original price $17.95 - Original price $17.95
Original price
$17.95
$17.95 - $17.95
Current price $17.95

The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism

Adam Nagourney
Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00
Original price
$24.00
$24.00 - $24.00
Current price $24.00

A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing ...

View full details
Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00
Original price
$24.00
$24.00 - $24.00
Current price $24.00

Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)

University of Georgia Press
Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95
Original price
$29.95
$29.95 - $29.95
Current price $29.95

Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shape...

View full details
Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95
Original price
$29.95
$29.95 - $29.95
Current price $29.95

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro
Original price $24.30 - Original price $24.30
Original price
$24.30
$24.30 - $24.30
Current price $24.30

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incre...

View full details
Original price $24.30 - Original price $24.30
Original price
$24.30
$24.30 - $24.30
Current price $24.30

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Kathy Peiss
Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95
Original price
$29.95
$29.95 - $29.95
Current price $29.95

What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amuseme...

View full details
Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95
Original price
$29.95
$29.95 - $29.95
Current price $29.95

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York

Abraham Cahan
Original price $10.95 - Original price $10.95
Original price
$10.95
$10.95 - $10.95
Current price $10.95

"No American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian's stories of Yiddish life. … [Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor do...

View full details
Original price $10.95 - Original price $10.95
Original price
$10.95
$10.95 - $10.95
Current price $10.95

Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks

Horatio Alger | Michael Meyer | Bryan Waterman
Original price $5.35 - Original price $5.35
Original price
$5.35
$5.35 - $5.35
Current price $5.35

In this classic rags-to-riches tale, discover the exhilarating story of one boy’s metamorphosis from a street urchin in New York City to a handsome...

View full details
Original price $5.35 - Original price $5.35
Original price
$5.35
$5.35 - $5.35
Current price $5.35

New York School of Interior Design: Home: The Foundations of Enduring Spaces

Ellen S. Fisher | Jen Renzi | Alexa Hampton
Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00
Original price
$65.00
$65.00 - $65.00
Current price $65.00

"An essential text for all students of design . . . [and] inspiration and intel for those simply interested in the art and practice." --Alexa Hampt...

View full details
Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00
Original price
$65.00
$65.00 - $65.00
Current price $65.00

The Storyteller Essays (New York Review Books Classics)

Walter Benjamin | Samuel Titan | Tess Lewis
Original price $15.25 - Original price $15.25
Original price
$15.25
$15.25 - $15.25
Current price $15.25

A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stori...

View full details
Original price $15.25 - Original price $15.25
Original price
$15.25
$15.25 - $15.25
Current price $15.25

Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics)

Tayeb Salih | Denys Johnson-Davies | Laila Lalami
Original price $13.45 - Original price $13.45
Original price
$13.45
$13.45 - $13.45
Current price $13.45

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is th...

View full details
Original price $13.45 - Original price $13.45
Original price
$13.45
$13.45 - $13.45
Current price $13.45

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Rem Koolhaas
Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00
Original price
$35.00
$35.00 - $35.00
Current price $35.00

Since its publication - Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city ...

View full details
Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00
Original price
$35.00
$35.00 - $35.00
Current price $35.00
On order

In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (Historical Studies of Urban America)

Leslie M. Harris
Original price $37.00 - Original price $37.00
Original price
$37.00
$37.00 - $37.00
Current price $37.00

"The black experience in the antebellum South has been thoroughly documented. But histories set in the North are few. In the Shadow of Slavery, the...

View full details
Original price $37.00 - Original price $37.00
Original price
$37.00
$37.00 - $37.00
Current price $37.00
On order

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Jill Lepore
Original price $16.15 - Original price $16.15
Original price
$16.15
$16.15 - $16.15
Current price $16.15

Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award WinnerIn New York Burning,Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic eve...

View full details
Original price $16.15 - Original price $16.15
Original price
$16.15
$16.15 - $16.15
Current price $16.15
On order

Empire City: New York Through the Centuries

Kenneth Jackson | David Dunbar
Original price $23.45 - Original price $23.45
Original price
$23.45
$23.45 - $23.45
Current price $23.45

As perhaps never before in its extraordinary history, New York has captured the American imagination. This major anthology brings together not only...

View full details
Original price $23.45 - Original price $23.45
Original price
$23.45
$23.45 - $23.45
Current price $23.45
On order

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

Rebecca Solnit | Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Original price $23.06 - Original price $23.06
Original price
$23.06
$23.06 - $23.06
Current price $23.06

Winner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society of New York"The maps themselves are things of beauty . . . A document of its ...

View full details
Original price $23.06 - Original price $23.06
Original price
$23.06
$23.06 - $23.06
Current price $23.06
On order

One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century

Nancy Foner
Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00
Original price
$38.00
$38.00 - $38.00
Current price $38.00

This absorbing anthology features in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, revealing the surprising new realities of immigrant life in twe...

View full details
Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00
Original price
$38.00
$38.00 - $38.00
Current price $38.00
On order

The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York (Studies in the History of Sexuality)

Amy Gilman Srebnick
Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00
Original price
$25.00
$25.00 - $25.00
Current price $25.00

In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers disappeared without a trace from her New York City boarding house. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and...

View full details
Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00
Original price
$25.00
$25.00 - $25.00
Current price $25.00
On order

The New York Times Reader: Arts & Culture (TimesCollege from CQ Press)

Don McLeese
Original price $52.00 - Original price $52.00
Original price
$52.00
$52.00 - $52.00
Current price $52.00

Covering the expanse of arts featured in The Times, from orchestral music and museum exhibitions to video games and hip-hop, this Reader makes no h...

View full details
Original price $52.00 - Original price $52.00
Original price
$52.00
$52.00 - $52.00
Current price $52.00
On order

The Chelsea Girls: A Novel

Fiona Davis
Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00
Original price
$19.00
$19.00 - $19.00
Current price $19.00

The bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together i...

View full details
Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00
Original price
$19.00
$19.00 - $19.00
Current price $19.00

The Dollhouse: A Novel

Fiona Davis
Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00
Original price
$19.00
$19.00 - $19.00
Current price $19.00

Enter the lush world of 1950s New York City, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors live side by side in the glamorous Bar...

View full details
Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00
Original price
$19.00
$19.00 - $19.00
Current price $19.00

The Address: A Novel

Fiona Davis
Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00 - $18.00
Current price $18.00

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines betwee...

View full details
Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00 - $18.00
Current price $18.00

The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A Novel

Fiona Davis
Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00
Original price
$19.00
$19.00 - $19.00
Current price $19.00

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times bestseller! “A page-turner for book lovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, the...

View full details
Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00
Original price
$19.00
$19.00 - $19.00
Current price $19.00

The Masterpiece: A Novel

Fiona Davis
Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00
Original price
$17.00
$17.00 - $17.00
Current price $17.00

In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Term...

View full details
Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00
Original price
$17.00
$17.00 - $17.00
Current price $17.00

The Magnolia Palace: A Novel

Fiona Davis
Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00
Original price
$17.00
$17.00 - $17.00
Current price $17.00

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel abo...

View full details
Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00
Original price
$17.00
$17.00 - $17.00
Current price $17.00

The Spectacular: A Novel

Fiona Davis
Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00 - $18.00
Current price $18.00

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Magnolia Palace: A thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst t...

View full details
Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00 - $18.00
Current price $18.00