Neighborhoods


Windows
In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Daniel's Good Day
A Man Called Ove
The Neighborhood Surprise
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
Dream Street
A Map into the World
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (The Vanderbeekers, #1)
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
This Side of Home
Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood
Mudlark by Lara MaiklemThe Ravenmaster by Christopher SkaifeThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLondon Under by Peter AckroydThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold
Best History of London Books
49 books — 14 voters
When Helping Hurts by Steve CorbettHigh Conflict by Amanda RipleyPilgrimage Pathways for the United States by James E.  MillsDeep Listening by Emily KasrielThe Traitor Within by Adrian Warnock
Community Life
64 books — 6 voters

Six-Dinner Sid by Inga MooreSix Dinner Sid by Inga MooreThe Cat with Seven Names by Tony JohnstonArchie Snufflekins Oliver Valentine Cupcake Tiberius Cat by Katie HarnettFederico and All His Families by Mili Hernández
Neighborhood Cats
5 books — 1 voter

Anthony T. Hincks
“ Sheep will live in corrals of neighborhoods when society comes of age. ”
― Anthony T. Hincks

Ibram X. Kendi
“ Pathological people made the pathological ghetto, segregationists say. The pathological ghetto made pathological people, assimilationists say. To be antiracist is to say the political and economic conditions, not the people, in poor Black neighborhoods are pathological. Pathological conditions are making the residents sicker and poorer while they strive to survive and thrive, while they invent and reinvent cultures and behaviors that may be different but never inferior to those of residents in r ...more ”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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Lived in NYC, Now I Just Read About It If you ever lived in New York City, reading about the city in books has SO much more resonance. …more
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