WNYC compiled a short list of essential Brooklyn reading. Below is our collection of literature, blogs and newspapers. Feel free to add your own suggestions below.
Literature:
"Brooklyn Was Mine" by Valerie Steiker and Chris Knutsen
"The Color of Water" by James McBride
"The Fortress of Solitude" by Jonathan Lethem
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Must-read Brooklyn history, curated by Brooklyn borough historian Ron Schweiger:
"Brooklyn's Gold Coast: The Sheepshead Bay Communities" by Brian Merlis and Lee A. Rosenzweig
"Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure" by Jeffrey I. Richman
"Brooklyn's Flatlands: Beyond the Field" by Lee Rosenzweig and Brian Merlis
"Coney Island: Lost and Found" by Charles Denson
"The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge" by David McCullough
"When Brooklyn Was the World, 1920-1957" by Elliot Willensky
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