Boston Globe Essential Books @ the Library

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Boston Globe's 100 Essential New England Books @ the Library

The Boston Globe published a list of 100 "Essential" New England Books that are about New England or written by New England authors. Read the list on the Globe website (the link above) and then place holds on the books you would like to read.

1	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	1851
2	Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	1868
3	Make Way For Ducklings	Robert McCloskey	1941
4	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	1963
5	A Prayer For Owen Meany	John Irving	1989
6	Mountains Beyond Mountains	Tracy Kidder	2004
7	Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson	1980
8	The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X	1965
9	Empire Falls	Richard Russo	2001
10	Friends of Eddie Coyle	George V. Higgins	1972
11	Common Ground	J. Anthony Lukas	1985
12	Walden	Henry David Thoreau	1854
13	All Souls	Michael Patrick MacDonald	2000
14	Ethan Frome	Edith Wharton	1911
15	Charlotte's Web	E.B. White	1952
16	Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace	1996
17	Paul Revere's Ride	David Hackett Fischer	1995
18	On Beauty	Zadie Smith	2005
19	The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1850
20	Carrie	Stephen King	1974
21	John Adams	David McCullough	2001
22	Blues	John Hersey	1987
23	Breath, Eyes, Memory	Edwidge Danticat	1994
24	Affliction	Russell Banks	1989
25	The Rascal King	Jack Beatty	2000
26	Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth Strout	2008
27	Boston Boy	Nat Hentoff	1986
28	She's Come Undone	Wally Lamb	1992
29	Cod	Mark Kurlansky	1997
30	The Prince of Providence	Mike Stanton	2003
31	Three Junes	Julia Glass	2002
32	Self-Reliance	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1841
33	The Secret Life of Lobsters	Trevor Corson	2005
34	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Diaz	2007
35	Summer of '49	David Halberstam	1989
36	Mayflower	Nathaniel Philbrick	2006
37	The Perfect Storm	Sebastian Junger	1997
38	Mystic River	Dennis Lehane	2001
39	Peyton Place	Grace Metalious	1956
40	Unaccustomed Earth	Jhumpa Lahiri	2008
41	The Education of Henry Adams	Henry Adams	1918
42	The Promised Land	Robert B. Parker	1976
43	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	1953
44	Little Children	Tom Perrotta	2005
45	Boston Adventure	Jean Stafford	1944
46	On The Road	Jack Kerouac	1957
47	One Boy's Boston	Samuel Eliot Morison	1962
48	The House of Sand and Fog	Andre Dubus III	2000
49	Sophie's Choice	William Styron	1979
50	Waiting	Ha Jin	1999
51	The Last Hurrah	Edwin O'Connor	1956
52	Tuesdays With Morrie	Mitch Albom	1997
53	A Separate Peace	John Knowles	1959
54	Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel	Virginia Lee Burton	1939
55	Our Town	Thornton Wilder	1938
56	Hackers	Steve Levy	1984
57	Nineteen Minutes	Jodi Picoult	2007
58	Science and Health With Key To The Scriptures	Mary Baker Eddy	1875
59	Practical Magic	Alice Hoffman	1996
60	Couples	John Updike	1968
61	Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	1951
62	The Call of Cthulhu	H.P. Lovecraft	1928
63	Profiles in Courage	John F. Kennedy	1955
64	A Civil Action	Jonathan Harr	1996
65	The Varieties of Religious Experience	William James	1905
66	Death at an Early Age	Jonathan Kozol	1967
67	Love Story	Erich Segal	1970
68	Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden	1997
69	The Good Mother	Sue Miller	1986
70	The Bostonians	Henry James	1886
71	Welcome to the Monkey House	Kurt Vonnegut	1968
72	Revere Beach Boulevard	Ronald Merullo	1999
73	A Walk In The Woods	Bill Bryson	1998
74	The Enormous Room	e.e. cummings	1922
75	Strong Motion	Jonathan Franzen	1992
76	The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	2003
77	One L	Scott Turow	1997
78	The Emperor's Children	Claire Messud	2006
79	Two Years Before The Mast	Richard Henry Dana	1940
80	Blanche Cleans Up	Barbara Neely	1999
81	The Secret History	Donna Tartt	1992
82	Girl, Interrupted	Susanna Kaysen	1993
83	Einstein's Dreams	Alan Lightman	1992
84	Blue Hill Avenue	Mark Mirsky	1972
85	The City Below	James Carroll	1996
86	Team of Rivals	Doris Kearns Goodwin	2005
87	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	1985
88	Bringing Down the House	Ben Mezrich	2003
89	The Rise of Silas Lapham	William Dean Howells	1884
90	Not Without Peril	Nicholas Howe	2000
91	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Mark Twain	1889
92	Massachusetts	Nancy Zaroulis	1991
93	The Old Patagonian Express	Paul Theroux	1979
94	The Weight of Water	Anita Shreve	1997
95	Revolutionary Road	Richard Yates	1961
96	The Late George Apley	John P. Marquand	1938
97	Looking Backward	Edward Bellamy	1888
98	Requiem, Mass.	John Dufresne	2008
99	The Wapshot Chronicle	John Cheever	1957
100	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	1969