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The Boston Globe's 100 Essential New England Books

As published in the Boston Globe on June 14, 2009

(found at: http://www.boston.com/globe/bestofnewengland/books/)

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1. Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)
by Herman Melville
  
2. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
3. Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
  
4. Bell Jar (P.S.)
by Sylvia Plath
  
5. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
6. Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer
by Tracy Kidder
  
7. Housekeeping: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
  
8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Malcolm X
  
9. Empire Falls
by RICHARD RUSSO
  
10. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas
  
11. Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
  
12. All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
  
13. Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
  
14. Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
  
15. Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
  
16. Paul Revere's Ride
by David Hackett Fischer
  
17. On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
  
18. The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
19.
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 CARRIE (Stephen King Library - Red Leather)
by Stephen King
  
20. John Adams
by David McCullough
  
21. Blues (Vintage)
by John Hersey
  
22. Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
by Edwidge Danticat
  
23. Affliction
by Russell Banks
  
24. The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
by Jack Beatty
  
25. Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
by Strout Elizabeth
  
26. Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
by Nat Hentoff
  
27. She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)
by Wally Lamb
  
28. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
  
29. The Prince of Providence: The Rise and Fall of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor
by Mike Stanton
  
30. Three Junes
by Julia Glass
  
31. Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
32. The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.)
by Trevor Corson
  
33.
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 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
  
34. Summer of '49 (P.S.)
by David Halberstam
  
35. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick
  
36. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
  
37. Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
  
38. Peyton Place
by Grace Metalious
  
39.
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 Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
  
40. The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
  
41. Promised Land
by Robert Parker
  
42. The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Miller
  
43. Little Children (Movie Tie-In)
by Tom Perrotta
  
44.
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 Boston Adventure
by Jean Stafford
  
45. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
  
46.
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 One Boy's Boston 1887-1901
by Samuel Eliot Morison
  
47. House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club)
by Andre Dubus III
  
48. Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
by William Styron
  
49. Waiting: A Novel
by Ha Jin
  
50. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom
  
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