Bronx


Cutting for Stone
My Beloved World
Kitchen Privileges
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
More Happy Than Not
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Las Madres
Burn Down, Rise Up
Tyrell (Tyrell, #1)
Juliet Takes a Breath
The Bronx: The Ultimate Guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough (Rivergate Regionals Collection)
Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History
Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx
In the South Bronx of America by Mel RosenthalSweeney's Adventure by Joseph KrumgoldBronx Noir by S.J. RozanElizabeth's Mountain by Lucille GuarinoMa, Your Son Is Crazy, Do Something! by JC Fabio
Bronx Books
10 books — 5 voters
Roaming by Jillian TamakiThis Beautiful, Ridiculous City by Kay SohiniMy New York Diary by Julie DoucetIsla to Island by Alexis CastellanosFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Graphic Novels Set in New York
5 books — 2 voters

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgAll-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney TaylorHarriet the Spy by Louise FitzhughStuart Little by E.B. WhiteEloise by Kay Thompson
Children's Books set in New York City
568 books — 113 voters
'Tis by Frank McCourtJust Kids by Patti SmithBrain on Fire by Susannah CahalanCity Boy by Edmund WhiteDo Something by Guy Trebay
Memoirs of New York City
178 books — 24 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,732 books — 1,309 voters
City of Bones by Cassandra ClarePhoebe Unfired by Amalie JahnThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanDash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel CohnThe Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
YA books set in New York City
351 books — 90 voters

Al Pacino
Every few blocks were vacant lots where victory gardens had been planted at the height of the war. By then, they were wrecked and full of debris. Once in a while, when you looked down at the sidewalk along the lots, you’d see a blade of grass growing up out of the concrete. That’s what my friend, the acting teacher Lee Strasberg, once called talent: a blade of grass growing up out of a block of concrete.
Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Jenny  Holiday
Show me your room." H reversed the phone and made for the bathroom. "Let me show you the soap I ate earlier. ...more
Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

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