Gilded Gotham: New York City in the Gilded Age (nonfiction)
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
by:
Paula Uruburu
3.74 avg rating — 3,061 ratings 2. 
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by:
Bill Dedman
3.80 avg rating — 39,204 ratings 3. 
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
by:
Hugh Brewster
3.97 avg rating — 2,769 ratings 4. 
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by:
T.J. Stiles
3.90 avg rating — 8,806 ratings 5. 
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
by:
Justin Kaplan
3.39 avg rating — 1,650 ratings 6. 
Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
by:
Charles Slack
3.93 avg rating — 651 ratings 7. 
The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
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Janet Wallach
3.49 avg rating — 1,304 ratings 8. 
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
by:
Paul Collins
3.58 avg rating — 8,675 ratings 9. 
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
by:
Jacob A. Riis
3.73 avg rating — 3,047 ratings 10. 
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
by:
Anne de Courcy
3.63 avg rating — 3,679 ratings 11. 
The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America
by:
Geoffrey O'Brien
3.13 avg rating — 437 ratings 12. 
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by:
Ron Chernow
3.96 avg rating — 12,217 ratings 
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
by:
Mike Wallace
4.34 avg rating — 361 ratings 
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A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York
by:
Greg King
3.89 avg rating — 550 ratings 16. 
In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
by:
Clifton Hood
3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings 18. 
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
by:
Shane White
3.58 avg rating — 309 ratings 19. 
Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression
by:
George Robb
3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
by:
Barry Werth
3.40 avg rating — 68 ratings 21. 
Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York 3.84 avg rating — 432 ratings
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The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost 4.23 avg rating — 970 ratings
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The Big Policeman: The Rise and Fall of America's First, Most Ruthless, and Greatest Detective
by:
J. North Conway
3.44 avg rating — 45 ratings 29. 
Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored
by:
Mary Gabriel
3.67 avg rating — 433 ratings 31. 
A Woman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull
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Kathleen Krull
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 161 ratings 32. 
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
by:
Myra MacPherson
3.48 avg rating — 695 ratings 
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The Trial of the Century: Evelyn Nesbit and the Murder of Stanford White 3.42 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age 3.77 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
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Evelyn Nesbit's Own Story (The Death Bed Revelations of 1926)
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Evelyn Nesbit
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 39. 
Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth Century New York City 4.11 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age
by:
Eric Homberger
3.74 avg rating — 68 ratings 
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by:
Edmund Morris
4.23 avg rating — 59,131 ratings 
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New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era
by:
Daniel Czitrom
3.46 avg rating — 52 ratings 
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Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by:
Debby Applegate
3.96 avg rating — 1,039 ratings 
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Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
by:
Bonnie Yochelson
3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings 54. 
Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village
by:
Luther S. Harris
3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 55. 
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
by:
Jane Ziegelman
3.78 avg rating — 3,170 ratings 56. 
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age (American Portraits, 1)
by:
H.W. Brands
3.30 avg rating — 594 ratings 
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An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business
by:
Gerard Helferich
3.61 avg rating — 77 ratings 60. 
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The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
by:
Stephan Talty
3.63 avg rating — 2,361 ratings 
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A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York 3.77 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
by:
Shomari Wills
3.93 avg rating — 3,774 ratings 
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Professional Criminals of America: From Gilded Age New York
by:
Thomas Byrnes
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 67. 
The Missing Corpse: Grave Robbing a Gilded Age Tycoon
by:
Wayne Fanebust
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 68. 
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King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
by:
J. North Conway
3.25 avg rating — 314 ratings 70. 
Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
by:
Laura Claridge
3.54 avg rating — 587 ratings 71. 
Queen of Thieves: The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
by:
J. North Conway
2.82 avg rating — 252 ratings 72. 
Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age
by:
Donna M. Lucey
3.46 avg rating — 715 ratings 73. 
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896
by:
Sven Beckert
4.03 avg rating — 119 ratings 74. 
The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
by:
Simon Baatz
3.46 avg rating — 2,104 ratings 
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Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York
by:
M.H. Dunlop
3.33 avg rating — 67 ratings 
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line 3.37 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age: All 203 Photographs from "Artistic Houses," with New Text
by:
Arnold Lewis
3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings 
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Ten Days in A Mad-House: A First-Hand Account of Life At Bellevue Hospital on Blackwell's Island in 1887
by:
Nellie Bly
3.86 avg rating — 23,040 ratings 
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Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
by:
Julie Miller
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 86. 
A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York
by:
Jane Dabel
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 87. 
Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York
by:
Donna Dennis
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings 88. 
Mary L. Booth: The Story of an Extraordinary 19th-Century Woman
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Tricia Foley
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 89. 
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New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905
by:
Rebecca Edwards
3.70 avg rating — 155 ratings 
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Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
by:
Sherill Tippins
3.72 avg rating — 1,057 ratings 93. 
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
by:
Jill Jonnes
3.96 avg rating — 835 ratings 94. 
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
by:
Tyler Anbinder
4.33 avg rating — 964 ratings 
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The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose with It 3.71 avg rating — 199 ratings
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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
by:
Doug Most
3.66 avg rating — 1,665 ratings 98. 
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
by:
George Chauncey
4.27 avg rating — 3,391 ratings 99. 
Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown 3.55 avg rating — 258 ratings
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City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War
by:
John Strausbaugh
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 231 ratings