A Boston Reading List

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Inspired by the lending library at the Mayor's Office, at Boston City Hall.
1
Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
12,993 members
196 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
waitingtoderail, susanbooks, cej1027, Maybelline
2
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41,649 members
417 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, Maybelline
3
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
by Michael Rawson
88 members
5 reviews
4
2 Members
waitingtoderail, Maybelline
4
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
by Stephen Puleo
824 members
32 reviews
4
Member
waitingtoderail
5
The Chelsea Whistle: A Memoir
by Michelle Tea
241 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
susanbooks
6
Murder in Boston
by Ken Englade
41 members
3
Member
dara85
7
The Islands of Boston Harbor (Snow Centennial Editions)
by Edward Rowe Snow
37 members
5
Member
NE-lacer
8
Ani słowa prawdy
by Jacek Piekara
28 members
½ 4.5
Member
rodrio
9
The Complete Fiction
by H. P. Lovecraft
3,410 members
24 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
10
The Rise of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells
1,568 members
12 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
susanbooks
11
The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
372 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
dara85
13
The Bone Garden
by Tess Gerritsen
2,821 members
95 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
14
Death at an Early Age
by Jonathan Kozol
439 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
Maybelline
15
Map of Ireland: A Novel
by Stephanie Grant
86 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
susanbooks
16
Condorito! SPA: La Aventura Comienza (Spanish Edition)
by Pepo
34 members
1 review
2.8
Member
rodrio
17
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
951 members
23 reviews
4
Member
waitingtoderail
18
Diary of Anna Green Winslow
by Anna Green Winslow
65 members
1 review
3.9
Member
susanbooks
19
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
by Henry Mayer
363 members
4.2
Member
waitingtoderail
20
The Living Is Easy
by Dorothy West
265 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
susanbooks
21
Mapping Boston
by Alex Krieger
209 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
waitingtoderail
22
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
by Sam Bass Warner
194 members
2 reviews
3.2
Member
susanbooks
23
The Rascal King: The Life And Times Of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
by Jack Beatty
142 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
waitingtoderail
24
The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
8,079 members
179 reviews
½ 3.4
25
Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
7,212 members
467 reviews
4.2
26
The Given Day
by Dennis Lehane
3,233 members
152 reviews
4
27
The Godwulf Manuscript
by Robert B. Parker
1,797 members
51 reviews
½ 3.5
28
God Save the Child
by Robert B. Parker
1,264 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
29
Caucasia
by Danzy Senna
1,080 members
26 reviews
4
30
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
1,057 members
48 reviews
4
31
The Image of the City
by Kevin Lynch
1,053 members
6 reviews
4.1
33
The Late George Apley
by John P. Marquand
726 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
34
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
by Esther Forbes
715 members
7 reviews
3.9
35
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
by Theodore H. White
697 members
7 reviews
4
36
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas
644 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
37
The Last Hurrah
by Edwin O'Connor
550 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
38
The Edge of Sadness
by Edwin O'Connor
486 members
14 reviews
3.9
40
Great Short Works of Henry James
by Henry James
288 members
3.9
41
Boston: A Topographical History
by Walter Muir Whitehill
253 members
2 reviews
4
42
Beacon Street Mourning
by Dianne Day
200 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
43
Mortal Friends
by James Carroll
169 members
½ 3.6
44
The Proper Bostonians
by Cleveland Amory
165 members
2 reviews
4.2
45
Lost Boston
by Jane Holtz Kay
163 members
2 reviews
3.8
46
The Art of Scandal: The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner
by Douglass Shand-Tucci
158 members
4 reviews
3.2
47
The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans
by Herbert J. Gans
147 members
1 review
½ 3.5
48
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
by John C. Esposito
136 members
9 reviews
4
49
Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation, Enlarged Edition
by Oscar Handlin
119 members
1 review
3.9
50
The Boston Irish: A Political History
by Thomas H. O'Connor
119 members
1 review
½ 3.7
51
Improper Bostonians: Lesbians and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland
by History Project
117 members
1 review
½ 3.7
52
A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900
by Stephen Puleo
109 members
2 reviews
3.8
53
Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
by Nancy S. Seasholes
98 members
½ 4.5
54
Revere Beach Boulevard
by Roland Merullo
90 members
1 review
4
56
Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100
by David Alexander Smith
88 members
4 reviews
3.9
57
Dealing; or, The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
by Michael Douglas
87 members
2 reviews
3.2
58
Cityscapes of Boston
by Robert Campbell
84 members
1 review
4.1
59
The City Below
by James Carroll
84 members
½ 3.3
60
The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City
by Sam Bass Warner
84 members
61
Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-1950
by Douglass Shand-Tucci
83 members
4
62
Selected Poems
by Robert Pinsky
81 members
½ 3.3
64
Dorchester Days
by Eugene Richards
75 members
1 review
4.1
66
Beneath the Streets of Boston: Building America's First Subway
by Joe McKendry
72 members
1 review
3.9
67
Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
by Nat Hentoff
67 members
½ 3.3
68
Inventing the Charles River
by Karl Haglund
66 members
1 review
4
69
Selected Poems: 1958-1984
by John Wieners
65 members
4
70
Songs from the Alley
by Kathleen Hirsch
64 members
1 review
3
71
Boston ways: high, by, and folk
by George F. Weston
63 members
3
72
Spenser's Boston
by Robert B. Parker
58 members
1 review
½ 3.6
73
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System
by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
57 members
2.8
74
Imagining Boston: A Literary Landscape
by Shaun O'Connell
53 members
1 review
2
75
A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940
by Erica E. Hirshler
52 members
1 review
4
76
Fear in Fenway
by Crabbe Evers
52 members
½ 2.5
77
Boston A to Z
by Thomas H. O'Connor
45 members
3
80
A Home in the Heart of a City
by Kathleen Hirsch
33 members
½ 3.5
81
Portrait of a Port: Boston, 1852-1914
by W. H. Bunting
31 members
4
83
The Garden Squares of Boston
by Phebe S. Goodman
27 members
1 review
84
Still Among the Living
by Zachary Klein
26 members
½ 2.5
85
Building A New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970
by Thomas H. O'Connor
25 members
½ 4.5
88
Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston
by Gerard O'Neill
20 members
½ 4.5
89
The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock and Roll
by Brett Milano
20 members
½ 3.7
90
I'd Do It Again - Autobiography of James Michael Curley
by James Michael Curley
18 members
½ 3.7
91
Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours
by Mary Melvin Petronella
18 members
93
King's Hand-book of Boston
by Moses King
16 members
95
Boston's Immigrants: 1840-1925
by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
12 members
1 review
97
The Boston Jazz Chronicles
by Richard Vacca
11 members
3
98
Where You Live
by Jill McDonough
11 members
3
100
The Rise of Mr. Ponzi
by Charles Ponzi
9 members