The Definitive Boston Reading List

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Inspired by a post on Universal Hub, a community list of books about Boston—please feel free to add your own!

  1. 1.
    The Trumpet of the Swan
    by E. B. White

  2. 2.
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    New Architecture in Boston
    by Joan E. Goody

  3. 4.
    Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System
    by Cynthia Zaitzevsky

  4. 6.

  5. 8.
    Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630
    by Lawrence W. Kennedy

  6. 9.
    Cityscapes of Boston
    by Robert Campbell

  7. 10.
    The Proper Bostonians
    by Cleveland Amory

  8. 12.
    Mapping Boston

  9. 13.
    Built in Boston: City & Suburb, 1800-2000
    by Douglass Shand-Tucci

  10. 14.
    The Hub: Boston Past and Present
    by Thomas H. O'Connor

  11. 15.
    Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
    by Nancy S. Seasholes

  12. 16.
    The Big Dig: Reshaping an American City
    by Peter Vanderwarker

  13. 17.
    Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
    by Stephen Puleo

  14. 19.
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    The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family
    by Gerard O'Neil

  15. 21.
    The Boston Stranglers
    by Susan Kelly

  16. 22.
    A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler
    by Casey Sherman

  17. 23.
    Boston, All One Family
    by Robert B. Parker

  18. 25.
    All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
    by Michael Patrick MacDonald

  19. 26.
    Zodiac
    by Neal Stephenson

  20. 27.
    Cell: A Novel
    by Stephen King

  21. 28.
    Back Bay
    by William Martin

  22. 29.
    The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  23. 30.
    The Only Good Lawyer (John Francis Cuddy Mystery)
    by Jeremiah Healy

  24. 31.
    School Days (Spenser Mystery)
    by Robert B. Parker

  25. 32.
    Mystic River
    by Dennis Lehane

  26. 33.
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books)
    by George V. Higgins

  27. 34.
    Wickett's Remedy: A Novel
    by Myla Goldberg

  28. 35.
    Back Bay Boston Basement
    by Carrol Wolverton

  29. 36.
    Light, Coming Back: A Novel
    by Ann Wadsworth

  30. 37.
    The Exes: A Novel
    by Pagan Kennedy

  31. 38.
    The Hunger Moon: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Suzanne Matson

  32. 39.
    Make Way for Ducklings (Viking Kestrel picture books)
    by Robert McCloskey

  33. 40.
    Hatmaker's Sign, The (rlb)
    by Candace Fleming

This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists.
Created by Tim Jarrett on Apr 04, 2006.
 

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