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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Tales of New York City

1,759 books — 1,347 voters

Books Set in New York State

772 books — 98 voters

Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective by Alexei Maxim Russell

New York City

185 books — 52 voters

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Boat Club Book Club

94 books — 7 voters

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord

YA and Middle Grade Fiction Set in Brooklyn

127 books — 20 voters

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

2015 St. Francis College $50,000 Literary Prize

6 books — 1 voter

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“ We went to Speedy Romeo, an Italian restaurant that has a pizza topped with Provel, a processed cheese popular in the Midwest that was virtually unknown in the Northeast. A Bed-Stuy B&B that hosts jazz concerts followed by fish fries in its town house parlor on weekend nights. And Cacao Prieto, a rum distillery that doubles as a beans-to-bar factory, producer of killer single origin 72 percent dark chocolate bars and rum-filled truffles. ”
― Amy Thomas, Brooklyn in Love: A Delicious Memoir of Food, Family, and Finding Yourself

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“ The symptoms of poverty are timeless, and Winston knew exactly who the weepy kid looked like: an extra from John Ford's Grapes of Wrath. A Brooklyn Joad, sullied from head to toe with the grime of parental and societal neglect. ...more ”
― Paul Beatty, Tuff

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