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Staff Picks
- NYC Novels
- Brooklyn History & Memoirs
Manhattan BeachJennifer Egan
Moon palacePaul Auster
Winter's taleMark Helprin
Another countryJames Baldwin
The house of mirthEdith Wharton
The Russian debutante's handbookGary Shteyngart
Open cityTeju Cole
The beautiful and damnedF Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Invisible manRalph Ellison
Motherless BrooklynJonathan Lethem
Prospect Park : Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn masterpieceDavid P Colley
The Brooklyn nobody knows : an urban walking guideWilliam B Helmreich
Brooklyn by name : how the neighborhoods, streets, parks, bridges, and more got their namesLeonard Benardo
The great bridge : the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn BridgeDavid G McCullough
Brooklyn's promised land : the free black community of Weeksville, New YorkJudith Wellman
In the country of Brooklyn : inspiration to the worldPeter Golenbock
The Three Graces of Raymond Street : murder, madness, sex, and politics in 1870s BrooklynRobert E (Robert Emmet) Murphy
February houseSherill Tippins
Two cents plain : my Brooklyn boyhoodMartin Lemelman
I remember Brooklyn : memories from favorite sons and daughtersRalph Monti
Song of Brooklyn : an oral history of America's favorite boroughMarc Eliot