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The Definitive Boston Reading List

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

(found at: http://www.universalhub.com/node/3839)
1. The Trumpet of the Swan
by E. B. White
  
2.
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 New Architecture in Boston
by Joan E. Goody
  
3.
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 The Rehabilitation Planning Game : A Study in the Diversity of Neighborhood  
4. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System
by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
  
5. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas
  
6. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
by Ronald P. Formisano
  
7.
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 The Last Tenement: Confronting Community and Urban Renewal in Boston's West End
by Sean M. Fisher
  
8. Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630
by Lawrence W. Kennedy
  
9. Cityscapes of Boston
by Robert Campbell
  
10.
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 The Proper Bostonians
by Cleveland Amory
  
11. Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland
by Barney Frank
  
12. Mapping Boston
by Norman B. Leventhal
  
13. Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-2000
by Douglass Shand-Tucci
  
14. The Hub: Boston Past and Present
by Thomas H. O'Connor
  
15. Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
by Nancy S. Seasholes
  
16. The Big Dig: Reshaping an American City
by Peter Vanderwarker
  
17. Dark Tide : The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
by Stephen Puleo
  
18. Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
by Stewart O'Nan
  
19.
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 The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family
by Gerard O'Neil
  
20. Time to Make the Donuts: The Founder of Dunkin Donuts Shares an American Journey
by William Rosenberg
  
21. The Boston Stranglers
by Susan Kelly
  
22. A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler
by Casey Sherman
  
23. Boston, All One Family
by Robert B. Parker
  
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
  
25. All Souls : A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
  
26. Zodiac
by Neal Stephenson
  
27. Cell: A Novel
by Stephen King
  
28. Back Bay
by William Martin
  
29. The Scarlet Letter
by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
  
30. The ONLY GOOD LAWYER (John Francis Cuddy Mystery)
by Jeremiah Healy
  
31. School Days (Spenser)
by Robert B. Parker
  
32. Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
  
33. The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books)
by George V. Higgins
  
34. Wickett's Remedy: A Novel
by Myla Goldberg
  
35. Back Bay Boston Basement
by Carrol Wolverton
  
36. Light, Coming Back: A Novel
by Ann Wadsworth
  
37. The Exes
by Pagan Kennedy
  
38. The Hunger Moon (Ballantine Readers Circle)
by Suzanne Matson
  
39. Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
  
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.