BOOKS ABOUT BROOKLYN

I came across this list of books, mostly fiction with some non-fiction and poetry sprinkled in, that was compiled by the Brooklyn Public Library on the web. It’s hardly comprehensive but there’s some great stuff here. Please add your own and send them to me.

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
Snow in August: a novel , Pete Hamill
Disappearing Acts, Terry McMillan
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
Push: a novel, Sapphire
John Henry Days: a novel, Colson Whitehead
Complete Poems of Marianne Moore
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
Fires in the Mirror, Anna Deavere Smith
When Brooklyn Was the World, Elliott Willensky

Young Adults:
Life Is Funny, E.R. Frank
Annie on the Mind, Nancy Garden
Spellbound, Janet McDonald
Fresh Girl, Jaira Placide
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago

Juvenile:
Big Jimmy’s Kum Kau Chinese Take Out, Ted Lewin
Black Cat, Christopher A. Myers
Max Found Two Sticks, Brian J. Pinkney
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
Didi and the Daddy on the Promenade, Marilyn Singer
Subway Sparrow, Leyla Torres
Brooklyn Doesn’t Rhyme, Joan W. Blos
Marisol and Magdalena: The Sound of Our Sisterhood, Veronica Chambers
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Bette Bao Lord
Last Summer With Maizon, Jacqueline Woodson

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