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4 books in Queens

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1Fiction · Literature & Fiction

Native Speaker

Chang-rae Lee · 1995

Henry Park, a Korean American corporate spy, is assigned to get close to John Kwang, a rising Queens city councilman with his eye on City Hall.

Pinned at: Flushing, Queens, around Main St

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2Fiction · Historical FictionKids

Lily's Crossing

Patricia Reilly Giff · 1997

In the summer of 1944, Lily befriends a young refugee from Hungary at her family's beach house in Rockaway.

Pinned at: Rockaway Beach, Queens, summer 1944

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3Fiction · Literature & Fiction

Re Jane

Patricia Park · 2015

A half-Korean orphan leaves her uncle's Flushing grocery to be an au pair in Brooklyn, in this modern spin on Jane Eyre.

Pinned at: Flushing, Queens, where Jane works in her uncle's grocery store

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4Nonfiction · HistoryNYT Bestseller

Metropolitans

A. M. Gittlitz · 2026

The Mets as New York's people's team, from their 1962 start through the Miracle of '69 and beyond, told as a story of the city.

Pinned at: Citi Field, home of the Mets, Flushing Meadows

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