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6 books in Brownstone Brooklyn

Cover of Motherless Brooklyn
1Fiction · Mystery, Thrillers, & CrimeNational Book Critics Circle Award · 19992019 Movie

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem · 1999

A detective with Tourette's hunts for his mentor's killer through the streets of Brooklyn.

Pinned at: Court Street, Carroll Gardens

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2Fiction · Literature & FictionCosta Novel Award · 2009NYT Bestseller2015 Movie

Brooklyn

Colm Toibin · 2009

A young Irish immigrant builds a new life, and finds love, in 1950s Brooklyn.

Pinned at: A department store on Fulton Street

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3Fiction · Literature & Fiction

The Fortress of Solitude

Jonathan Lethem · 2003

Two motherless boys grow up as friends on a 1970s Brooklyn block.

Pinned at: Dean Street, Boerum Hill

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4Fiction · Literature & Fiction

Last Night in Brooklyn

Xochitl Gonzalez · 2026

In 2007 Fort Greene, a young woman falls under the spell of her glamorous neighbor and the parties across the street.

Pinned at: Fort Greene, near Fort Greene Park

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5Nonfiction · History

The Great Bridge

David McCullough · 1972

The fourteen-year story of building the Brooklyn Bridge: the Roeblings, the caissons, the politics and the people who paid for it.

Pinned at: Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn end

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6Fiction · Literature & FictionNYT Bestseller

Deacon King Kong

James McBride · 2020

In a South Brooklyn housing project in 1969, an old church deacon shoots a young drug dealer, and the whole neighborhood feels the ripples.

Pinned at: The Cause Houses (modeled on the Red Hook Houses), 1969

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