BookCourt's Top Books About Brooklyn

Patchwork Planet Launch Party @ BookCourt, originally uploaded by gawker.

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!

1. Brooklyn Is¿Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes by James Agee and Jonathan Lethem
2. The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
3. The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel by Paul Auster
4. Brookland: A Novel by Emily Barton
5. Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges and More Got Their Names by Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss
6. The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn (Neighborhoods of New York City) by Kenneth T. Jackson and John B. Manbeck
7. The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology by Donald Breckenridge and Jen Zoble
8. History of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn in Ireland and America by Emmett Corry
9. How Music Grew in Brooklyn: A Biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra by Maurice Edwards
10. PatchWork Planet
11. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
12. Fortress of Solitude
13. 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
14. Water Street by Patricia Reilly Giff
15. Metropolis: A Novel by Elizabeth Gaffney
16. An Unlikely Cat Lady: Feral Adventures in the Backyard Jungle by Nina Malkin
17. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
18. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
19. Brooklyn: A State of Mind by Michael W. Robbins and Wendy Palitz
20. The Brooklyn Reader: Thirty Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough by Andrea Wyatt and Alice Leccese Powers
21. The Buddha from Brooklyn: A Tale of Spiritual Seduction by Martha Sherrill
22. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
23. The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging by Kym Ragusa
24. Brooklyn: An Illustrated History (Critical Perspectives on the Past) by Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
25. Not for Tourists Guide to Brooklyn 2007 (Not for Tourists)
26. Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee
27. Streetwise Brooklyn (Streetwise) by Michael Brown
28. Flying over Brooklyn by Myron Uhlberg
29. Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929 by William Lee Younger
30. Jews of Brooklyn (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) by Ilana Abramovitch and Sean Galvin
31. Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery by Steve Hindy, Tom Potter, and Michael R. Bloomberg
32. Battle of Brooklyn 1776 by John J. Gallagher