The Definitive Boston Reading List

1. 1. The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White Drag me to re-order

2. 2. ? New Architecture in Boston by Joan E. Goody Drag me to re-order

3. 3. ? The Rehabilitation Planning Game : A Study in the Diversity of Neighborhood Drag me to re-order

4. 4. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System by Cynthia Zaitzevsky Drag me to re-order

5. 5. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s by Ronald P. Formisano Drag me to re-order

7. 7. ? The Last Tenement: Confronting Community and Urban Renewal in Boston's West End by Sean M. Fisher Drag me to re-order

8. 8. Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630 by Lawrence W. Kennedy Drag me to re-order

9. 9. Cityscapes of Boston by Robert Campbell Drag me to re-order

10. 10. ? The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory Drag me to re-order

11. 11. Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland by Barney Frank Drag me to re-order

12. 12. Mapping Boston by Norman B. Leventhal Drag me to re-order

13. 13. Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-2000 by Douglass Shand-Tucci Drag me to re-order

14. 14. The Hub: Boston Past and Present by Thomas H. O'Connor Drag me to re-order

15. 15. Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston by Nancy S. Seasholes Drag me to re-order

16. 16. The Big Dig: Reshaping an American City by Peter Vanderwarker Drag me to re-order

17. 17. Dark Tide : The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo Drag me to re-order

18. 18. Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stewart O'Nan Drag me to re-order

19. 19. ? The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family by Gerard O'Neil Drag me to re-order

20. 20. Time to Make the Donuts: The Founder of Dunkin Donuts Shares an American Journey by William Rosenberg Drag me to re-order

21. 21. The Boston Stranglers by Susan Kelly Drag me to re-order

22. 22. A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler by Casey Sherman Drag me to re-order

23. 23. Boston, All One Family by Robert B. Parker Drag me to re-order

24. 24. Now I Can Die in Peace : How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox by Bill Simmons Drag me to re-order

25. 25. All Souls : A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald Drag me to re-order

26. 26. Zodiac by Neal Stephenson Drag me to re-order

27. 27. Cell: A Novel by Stephen King Drag me to re-order

28. 28. Back Bay by William Martin Drag me to re-order

29. 29. The Scarlet Letter by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Drag me to re-order

30. 30. The ONLY GOOD LAWYER (John Francis Cuddy Mystery) by Jeremiah Healy Drag me to re-order

31. 31. School Days (Spenser) by Robert B. Parker Drag me to re-order

32. 32. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane Drag me to re-order

33. 33. The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books) by George V. Higgins Drag me to re-order

34. 34. Wickett's Remedy: A Novel by Myla Goldberg Drag me to re-order

35. 35. Back Bay Boston Basement by Carrol Wolverton Drag me to re-order

36. 36. Light, Coming Back: A Novel by Ann Wadsworth Drag me to re-order

37. 37. The Exes by Pagan Kennedy Drag me to re-order

38. 38. The Hunger Moon (Ballantine Readers Circle) by Suzanne Matson Drag me to re-order

39. 39. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Hatmaker's Sign, The (rlb) by Candace Fleming Drag me to re-order