Book awards: 100 Essential New England BooksWorks (100)| Titles | Order | | Moby Dick by Herman Melville | Boston Globe, #1 | | Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | Boston Globe, #2 | | Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey | Boston Globe, #3 | | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath | Boston Globe, #4 | | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving | Boston Globe,#5 | | Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder | Boston Globe, #6 | | Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson | Boston Globe, #7 | | The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X | Boston Globe, #8 | | Empire Falls by Richard Russo | Boston Globe, #9 | | The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins | Boston Globe, #10 | | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas | Boston Globe, #11 | | Walden by Henry David Thoreau | Boston Globe, #12 | | All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald | Boston Globe, #13 | | Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton | Boston Globe, #14 | | Charlotte's Web by E. B. White | Boston Globe, #15 | | Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace | Boston Globe, #16 | | Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer | Boston Globe, #17 | | On Beauty by Zadie Smith | Boston Globe, #18 | | The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Boston Globe, #19 | | Carrie by Stephen King | Boston Globe, #20 | | John Adams by David McCullough | Boston Globe, #21 | | Blues by John Hersey | Boston Globe, #22 | | Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat | Boston Globe, #23 | | Affliction by Russell Banks | Boston Globe, #24 | | The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 by Jack Beatty | Boston Globe, #25 | | Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout | Boston Globe, #26 | | Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions by Nat Hentoff | Boston Globe, #27 | | She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb | Boston Globe, #28 | | Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky | Boston Globe, #29 | | The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds by Mike Stanton | Boston Globe, #30 | | Three Junes by Julia Glass | Boston Globe, #31 | | Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Boston Globe, #32 | | The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson | Boston Globe, #33 | | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz | Boston Globe, #34 | | Summer of '49 by David Halberstam | Boston Globe, #35 | | Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick | Boston Globe, #36 | | The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea by Sebastian Junger | Boston Globe, #37 | | Mystic River by Dennis Lehane | Boston Globe, #38 | | Peyton Place by Grace Metalious | Boston Globe, #39 | | Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri | Boston Globe, #40 | | The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams | Boston Globe, #41 | | Promised Land by Robert B. Parker | Boston Globe, #42 | | The Crucible by Arthur Miller | Boston Globe, #43 | | Little Children: A Novel by Tom Perrotta | Boston Globe, #44 | | Boston Adventure by Jean Stafford | Boston Globe, #45 | | On the Road by Jack Kerouac | Boston Globe, #46 | | One boy's Boston, 1887-1901 by Samuel Eliot Morison | Boston Globe, #47 | | House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III | Boston Globe, #48 | | Sophie's Choice by William Styron | Boston Globe, #49 | | Waiting by Ha Jin | Boston Globe, #50 | | The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor | Boston Globe, #51 | | Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom | Boston Globe, #52 | | A Separate Peace by John Knowles | Boston Globe, #53 | | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton | Boston Globe, #54 | | Our Town by Thornton Wilder | Boston Globe, #55 | | Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy | Boston Globe, #56 | | Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult | Boston Globe, #57 | | Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy | Boston Globe, #58 | | Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman | Boston Globe, #59 | | Couples by John Updike | Boston Globe, #60 | | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | Boston Globe, #61 | | The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft | Boston Globe, #62 | | Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy | Boston Globe, #63 | | A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr | Boston Globe, #64 | | The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James | Boston Globe, #65 | | Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol | Boston Globe, #66 | | Love Story by Erich Segal | Boston Globe, #67 | | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden | Boston Globe, #68 | | The Good Mother by Sue Miller | Boston Globe, #69 | | The Bostonians by Henry James | Boston Globe, #70 | | Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut | Boston Globe, #71 | | Revere Beach Boulevard by Roland Merullo | Boston Globe, #72 | | A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson | Boston Globe, #73 | | The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings | Boston Globe, #74 | | Strong Motion: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen | Boston Globe, #75 | | The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown | Boston Globe, #76 | | One L by Scott Turow | Boston Globe, #77 | | The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud | Boston Globe, #78 | | Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Jr. Dana | Boston Globe, #79 | | Blanche Cleans Up by Barbara Neely | Boston Globe, #80 | | The Secret History by Donna Tartt | Boston Globe, #81 | | Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen | Boston Globe, #82 | | Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman | Boston Globe, #83 | | Blue Hill Avenue; a novel by Mark Mirsky | Boston Globe, #84 | | The City Below by James Carroll | Boston Globe, #85 | | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Boston Globe, #86 | | The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | Boston Globe, #87 | | Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich | Boston Globe, #88 | | The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells | Boston Globe, #89 | | Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire by Nicholas Howe | Boston Globe, #90 | | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain | Boston Globe, #91 | | Massachusetts by Nancy Zaroulis | Boston Globe, #92 | | The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux | Boston Globe, #93 | | The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve | Boston Globe, #94 | | Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates | Boston Globe, #95 | | The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand | Boston Globe, #96 | | Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy | Boston Globe, #97 | | Requiem, Mass.: A Novel by John Dufresne | Boston Globe, #98 | | The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever | Boston Globe, #99 | | The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle | Boston Globe, #100 |
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