Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating our country’s 250th anniversary the best way we know how: with a thoughtful, surprising, irresistible booklist. Organized by genre and category of interest, this all-ages list is a deep dive on the stories, voices and moments that shaped America. Selected by our expert librarians—with help from a few notable New Yorkers!—here are the 250 most influential books in United States history. Print friendly list (PDF)
Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating our country’s 250th anniversary the best way we know how: with a thoughtful, surprising, irresistible booklist. Organized by genre and category of interest, this all-ages list is a deep dive on the stories, voices and moments that shaped America. Selected by our expert librarians—with help from a few notable New Yorkers!—here are the 250 most influential books in United States history. Print friendly list (PDF)
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Huge thanks to Jess Harwick for leading this project. A big thank you to the following librarians who curated this list and wrote the many thoughtful annotations: Gabrielle Noh, Emma Carbone, Mark Levine, Maria McGrath, Sarah Varenhorst, Gina Kromhout, Roxana Benavides, Allison Wong, Muse McCormack, Dayana Morales-Gomez, Sagal Hassan, Chiffon Stafford, Kevin Dao, and Mariaelena Garcia. Additional thanks go out to the following librarians for their contribution to the discussion: Nicole Marconi, Gretchen Alexander, Angela Peguero, Jessica Spears, Eva Raison, and Johanna Lewis.