Book awards: 100 Essential New England Books

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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: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World 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 — not in English Common Knowledge	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: A Novel 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 — not in English Common Knowledge	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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