The Boston Globe's 100 Essential New England Books

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As published in the Boston Globe on June 14, 2009

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  1. 1.
    Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  2. 2.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  3. 3.
    Make Way for Ducklings
    by Robert McCloskey

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  4. 4.
    Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  5. 5.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  6. 7.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  8. 9.
    Empire Falls
    by RICHARD RUSSO

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  9. 11.
    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  10. 12.
    All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
    by Michael Patrick MacDonald

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  11. 13.
    Ethan Frome
    by Edith Wharton

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  12. 14.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White

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  13. 15.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

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  14. 16.
    Paul Revere's Ride
    by David Hackett Fischer

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  15. 17.
    On Beauty
    by Zadie Smith

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  16. 18.
    The Scarlet Letter
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  17. 19.
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    CARRIE (Stephen King Library - Red Leather)
    by Stephen King

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  18. 20.
    John Adams
    by David McCullough

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  19. 21.
    Blues (Vintage)
    by John Hersey

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  20. 22.
    Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Edwidge Danticat

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  21. 23.
    Affliction
    by Russell Banks

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  22. 25.
    Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
    by Strout Elizabeth

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  23. 27.
    She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Wally Lamb

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  24. 28.
    Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
    by Mark Kurlansky

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  25. 30.
    Three Junes
    by Julia Glass

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  26. 31.
    Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  27. 33.
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    by Junot Díaz

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  28. 34.
    Summer of '49 (P.S.)
    by David Halberstam

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  29. 35.
    Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
    by Nathaniel Philbrick

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  30. 36.
    The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
    by Sebastian Junger

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  31. 37.
    Mystic River
    by Dennis Lehane

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  32. 38.
    Peyton Place
    by Grace Metalious

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  33. 39.
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    Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
    by Jhumpa Lahiri

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  34. 40.
    The Education of Henry Adams
    by Henry Adams

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  35. 41.
    Promised Land
    by Robert Parker

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  36. 42.
    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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  37. 43.
    Little Children (Movie Tie-In)
    by Tom Perrotta

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  38. 44.
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    Boston Adventure
    by Jean Stafford

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  39. 45.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  40. 46.
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    One Boy's Boston 1887-1901
    by Samuel Eliot Morison

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  41. 47.
    House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Andre Dubus III

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  42. 48.
    Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
    by William Styron

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  43. 49.
    Waiting: A Novel
    by Ha Jin

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Untitled — 15 weeks ago

Where is Denis Lehane’s The Given Day? If they have Olive Kittredge they should have this one too.