Titles | Order |
Moby Dick by Herman Melville | #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 | #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 | #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 Díaz | 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 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 H. P. 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 | #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 | #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 |