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A Boston Reading List

Description: Inspired by the lending library at the Mayor's Office, at Boston City Hall.

Members: 6 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32,255 members, 341 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: Maybelline (1), ahef1963 (1), cej1027

Score: 12

2
Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
8,694 members, 177 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Maybelline (2), susanbooks (7), cej1027

Score: 9.82

3
The Chelsea Whistle: A Memoir
by Michelle Tea
227 members, 3 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: susanbooks (1)

Score: 4

4
Murder in Boston
by Ken Englade
35 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: dara85 (1)

Score: 4

5
Ani słowa prawdy
by Jacek Piekara
22 members, 0 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: rodrio (1)

Score: 4

6
The Complete Fiction
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,639 members, 12 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2)

Score: 3.36

7
The Rise of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells
1,296 members, 11 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: susanbooks (2)

Score: 3.36

8
The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
299 members, 1 review
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: dara85 (2)

Score: 3.36

9
El Chavo: Locos por la lucha libre / Crazy for Wrestling (PB)
by María Domínguez
29 members, 1 review
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: rodrio (2)

Score: 3.36

10
Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
5,768 members, 425 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: dara85 (3)

Score: 3.04

11
Death at an Early Age
by Jonathan Kozol
371 members, 4 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: Maybelline (3)

Score: 3.04

12
Map of Ireland: A Novel
by Stephanie Grant
86 members, 3 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: susanbooks (3)

Score: 3.04

13
Condorito! SPA: La Aventura Comienza (Spanish Edition)
by Pepo
24 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: rodrio (3)

Score: 3.04

14
The Bone Garden
by Tess Gerritsen
2,325 members, 89 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: dara85 (4)

Score: 2.83

15
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
by Michael Rawson
69 members, 5 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Maybelline (4)

Score: 2.83

16
Diary of Anna Green Winslow
by Anna Green Winslow
56 members, 0 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: susanbooks (4)

Score: 2.83

17
The Living Is Easy
by Dorothy West
202 members, 2 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: susanbooks (5)

Score: 2.68

18
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
by Sam Bass Warner
156 members, 1 review
3.25 stars (3.25 stars)

Lists: susanbooks (6)

Score: 2.56

19
The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
6,974 members, 155 reviews
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

Score: 0

20
The Given Day
by Dennis Lehane
2,732 members, 131 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Score: 0

21
The Godwulf Manuscript
by Robert B. Parker
1,510 members, 39 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Score: 0

22
God Save the Child
by Robert B. Parker
1,081 members, 24 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Score: 0

23
Caucasia
by Danzy Senna
891 members, 20 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Score: 0

24
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
850 members, 21 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Score: 0

25
The Image of the City
by Kevin Lynch
814 members, 4 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Score: 0

26
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
810 members, 41 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Score: 0

28
The Late George Apley
by John P. Marquand
616 members, 8 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Score: 0

29
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
by Theodore H. White
580 members, 7 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Score: 0

31
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
by Esther Forbes
537 members, 7 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Score: 0

32
The Last Hurrah
by Edwin O'Connor
442 members, 7 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Score: 0

33
The Edge of Sadness
by Edwin O'Connor
381 members, 12 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Score: 0

35
Great Short Works of Henry James
by Henry James
237 members, 0 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Score: 0

37
Boston: A Topographical History
by Walter Muir Whitehill
202 members, 2 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Score: 0

38
Beacon Street Mourning
by Dianne Day
185 members, 1 review
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Score: 0

39
Mapping Boston
by Alex Krieger
165 members, 1 review
4.54 stars (4.54 stars)

Score: 0

40
The Proper Bostonians
by Cleveland Amory
140 members, 1 review
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Score: 0

42
Mortal Friends
by James Carroll
136 members, 0 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Score: 0

43
Lost Boston
by Jane Holtz Kay
133 members, 2 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Score: 0

45
Boston’s Immigrants, 1790-1865
by Oscar Handlin
129 members, 1 review
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Score: 0

48
The Boston Irish: A Political History
by Thomas H. O'Connor
101 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Score: 0

50
Revere Beach Boulevard
by Roland Merullo
80 members, 1 review
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Score: 0

52
The City Below
by James Carroll
74 members, 0 reviews
3.25 stars (3.25 stars)

Score: 0

53
Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100
by David Alexander Smith
73 members, 2 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Score: 0

54
Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
by Nancy S. Seasholes
72 members, 0 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Score: 0

56
Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-1950
by Douglass Shand-Tucci
69 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

58
Cityscapes of Boston
by Robert Campbell
66 members, 1 review
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Score: 0

62
Boston ways: high, by, and folk
by George F. Weston
59 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Score: 0

63
Dorchester Days
by Eugene Richards
56 members, 1 review
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Score: 0

65
Songs from the Alley
by Kathleen Hirsch
55 members, 1 review
3 stars (3 stars)

Score: 0

66
Selected Poems: 1958-1984
by John Wieners
54 members, 0 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Score: 0

67
Selected Poems
by Robert Pinsky
52 members, 0 reviews
2.5 stars (2.5 stars)

Score: 0

69
Spenser's Boston
by Robert B. Parker
50 members, 0 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Score: 0

70
Inventing the Charles River
by Karl Haglund
48 members, 0 reviews

Score: 0

73
Boston A to Z
by Thomas H. O'Connor
40 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Score: 0

74
Fear in Fenway: A Duffy House Mystery
by Crabbe Evers
39 members, 0 reviews
2.5 stars (2.5 stars)

Score: 0

77
A Home in the Heart of a City
by Kathleen Hirsch
31 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Score: 0

79
Portrait of a Port: Boston, 1852-1914
by W. H. Bunting
25 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

81
The Garden Squares of Boston
by Phebe S. Goodman
23 members, 1 review

Score: 0

86
Still Among the Living
by Zachary Klein
18 members, 0 reviews
2.5 stars (2.5 stars)

Score: 0

87
The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock and Roll
by Brett Milano
16 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Score: 0

93
King's Hand-book of Boston
by Moses King
10 members, 0 reviews

Score: 0

96
Franklin Park (MA) (Images of America)
by Julie Arrison
7 members, 2 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Score: 0

97
Where You Live
by Jill McDonough
7 members, 0 reviews

Score: 0

100
The purple shamrock
by Joseph F. Dinneen
6 members, 1 review
5 stars (5 stars)

Score: 0

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Started by: anelsewhere (February 2014)

Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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