BookCourt's Top Books About Brooklyn
There are three bookstores within three blocks of my house. They range from: The Community Bookstore which is a collection of mostly used books in a catacomb like setting on the corner of Warren and Court Street (Not to be missed). The Barnes and Noble "GIGA-Book-PLEX" on 106 Court. And my favorite place - BookCourt on Court and Pacific. After browsing the more organized Barnes and Noble I head over to BookCourt to buy the books there. Yesterday I stopped by and put together a list of the books they had about Brooklyn. Here are the links and if you can go there and buy them even better!
- Brooklyn Is¿Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes by James Agee and Jonathan Lethem
- The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
- The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel by Paul Auster
- Brookland: A Novel by Emily Barton
- Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges and More Got Their Names by Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss
- The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn (Neighborhoods of New York City) by Kenneth T. Jackson and John B. Manbeck
- The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology by Donald Breckenridge and Jen Zoble
- History of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn in Ireland and America by Emmett Corry
- How Music Grew in Brooklyn: A Biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra by Maurice Edwards
- PatchWork Planet
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- Fortress of Solitude
- The Brooklyn Bridge: The story of the world's most famous bridge and the remarkable family that built it. (Wonders of the World Book) by Elizabeth Mann and Alan Witschonke
- Water Street by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Metropolis: A Novel by Elizabeth Gaffney
- An Unlikely Cat Lady: Feral Adventures in the Backyard Jungle by Nina Malkin
- The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
- Brooklyn: A State of Mind by Michael W. Robbins and Wendy Palitz
- The Brooklyn Reader: Thirty Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough by Andrea Wyatt and Alice Leccese Powers
- The Buddha from Brooklyn: A Tale of Spiritual Seduction by Martha Sherrill
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
- The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging by Kym Ragusa
- Brooklyn: An Illustrated History (Critical Perspectives on the Past) by Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
- Not for Tourists Guide to Brooklyn 2007 (Not for Tourists)
- Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee
- Streetwise Brooklyn (Streetwise) by Michael Brown
- Flying over Brooklyn by Myron Uhlberg
- Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929 by William Lee Younger
- Jews of Brooklyn (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) by Ilana Abramovitch and Sean Galvin
- Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery by Steve Hindy, Tom Potter, and Michael R. Bloomberg
- Battle of Brooklyn 1776 by John J. Gallagher
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3 comments:
Thanks so much for including me in your Brooklyn Books list. I've heard wonderful things about BookCourt many times but have never been there myself so take special pleasure in your post. I'm doubly honored to be featured on their shelves and in your blog.
With warm thanks I am yours,
Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Your welcome Debby. If you are ever in the neighborhood - please let me know. It would be nice to meet you in person and perhaps a more in depth interview.
I agree, BookCourt is the best bookstore around. The only problem with the place is that is impossible to just stop in for a minute or two; somehow, hours evaporate in there.
One book not on your list (which I discovered inside BookCourt) is the delightful "I Live in Brooklyn" written and illlustrated by Mari Takabayashi. Next time you are there, pick up a copy.
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