A Boston Reading List

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Inspired by the lending library at the Mayor's Office, at Boston City Hall.
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8 participating members
1
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
35,640 members
364 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, Maybelline
2
Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
10,365 members
182 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
susanbooks, cej1027, Maybelline
3
The Chelsea Whistle: A Memoir
by Michelle Tea
230 members
3 reviews
3.8
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susanbooks
4
Murder in Boston
by Ken Englade
39 members
3
Member
dara85
5
Ani słowa prawdy
by Jacek Piekara
24 members
½ 4.5
Member
rodrio
6
The Complete Fiction
by H. P. Lovecraft
2,043 members
15 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
7
The Rise of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells
1,396 members
11 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
susanbooks
8
The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
325 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
dara85
9
El Chavo: Locos por la lucha libre / Crazy for Wrestling (PB)
by María Domínguez
41 members
1 review
3
Member
rodrio
10
Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
6,287 members
442 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
11
Death at an Early Age
by Jonathan Kozol
399 members
6 reviews
4.2
Member
Maybelline
12
Map of Ireland: A Novel
by Stephanie Grant
84 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
susanbooks
13
Condorito! SPA: La Aventura Comienza (Spanish Edition)
by Pepo
31 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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rodrio
14
The Bone Garden
by Tess Gerritsen
2,522 members
89 reviews
3.8
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dara85
15
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
by Michael Rawson
77 members
5 reviews
4
Member
Maybelline
16
Diary of Anna Green Winslow
by Anna Green Winslow
57 members
4
Member
susanbooks
17
The Living Is Easy
by Dorothy West
221 members
4 reviews
3.9
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susanbooks
18
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
by Sam Bass Warner
170 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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susanbooks
19
The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
7,395 members
169 reviews
½ 3.4
20
The Given Day
by Dennis Lehane
2,884 members
136 reviews
4
21
The Godwulf Manuscript
by Robert B. Parker
1,616 members
45 reviews
½ 3.5
22
God Save the Child
by Robert B. Parker
1,145 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
23
Caucasia
by Danzy Senna
933 members
21 reviews
4
24
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
916 members
44 reviews
4
25
The Image of the City
by Kevin Lynch
907 members
5 reviews
4.1
26
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
901 members
21 reviews
4
28
The Late George Apley
by John P. Marquand
652 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
29
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
by Theodore H. White
630 members
7 reviews
4
30
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
by Esther Forbes
610 members
7 reviews
3.9
31
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas
581 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
32
The Last Hurrah
by Edwin O'Connor
480 members
7 reviews
3.8
33
The Edge of Sadness
by Edwin O'Connor
415 members
14 reviews
3.9
34
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
by Henry Mayer
325 members
½ 4.3
36
Great Short Works of Henry James
by Henry James
258 members
3.9
37
Boston: A Topographical History
by Walter Muir Whitehill
216 members
2 reviews
4
38
Beacon Street Mourning
by Dianne Day
193 members
2 reviews
3.8
39
Mapping Boston
by Alex Krieger
174 members
1 review
½ 4.5
40
Mortal Friends
by James Carroll
150 members
½ 3.4
41
The Proper Bostonians
by Cleveland Amory
149 members
1 review
4.2
42
Lost Boston
by Jane Holtz Kay
147 members
2 reviews
3.8
43
The Art of Scandal: The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner
by Douglass Shand-Tucci
140 members
4 reviews
3.2
44
The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans
by Herbert J. Gans
139 members
1 review
½ 3.5
45
Boston’s Immigrants, 1790-1865
by Oscar Handlin
135 members
1 review
3.9
46
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958
by Jack Beatty
128 members
1 review
½ 3.7
47
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
by John C. Esposito
126 members
9 reviews
4
48
The Boston Irish: A Political History
by Thomas H. O'Connor
109 members
1 review
½ 3.6
49
Improper Bostonians: Lesbians and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland
by History Project
101 members
1 review
½ 3.7
50
A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900
by Stephen Puleo
92 members
2 reviews
3.8
51
Revere Beach Boulevard
by Roland Merullo
85 members
1 review
3.9
53
The City Below
by James Carroll
79 members
½ 3.3
54
Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
by Nancy S. Seasholes
78 members
½ 4.5
55
Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100
by David Alexander Smith
78 members
3 reviews
4.1
56
Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-1950
by Douglass Shand-Tucci
74 members
4
57
Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
by Michael Douglas
74 members
1 review
½ 3.3
58
Cityscapes of Boston
by Robert Campbell
71 members
1 review
4.1
59
The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City
by Sam Bass Warner
70 members
62
Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
by Nat Hentoff
62 members
½ 3.3
63
Selected Poems
by Robert Pinsky
62 members
½ 2.5
64
Songs from the Alley
by Kathleen Hirsch
61 members
1 review
3
65
Boston ways: high, by, and folk
by George F. Weston
60 members
3
66
Dorchester Days
by Eugene Richards
59 members
1 review
4.1
67
Selected Poems: 1958-1984
by John Wieners
59 members
4
68
Beneath The Streets Of Boston: Building America's First Subway
by Joe McKendry
55 members
1 review
3.9
69
Inventing the Charles River
by Karl Haglund
53 members
70
Spenser's Boston
by Robert B. Parker
52 members
1 review
½ 3.7
71
Imagining Boston: A Literary Landscape
by Shaun O'Connell
49 members
72
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System
by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
47 members
73
Fear in Fenway: A Duffy House Mystery
by Crabbe Evers
46 members
½ 2.5
74
A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940
by Erica E. Hirshler
45 members
1 review
4
75
Boston A to Z
by Thomas H. O'Connor
43 members
3
77
A Home in the Heart of a City
by Kathleen Hirsch
31 members
½ 3.5
79
Portrait of a Port: Boston, 1852-1914
by W. H. Bunting
28 members
4
81
The Garden Squares of Boston
by Phebe S. Goodman
24 members
1 review
83
Still Among the Living
by Zachary Klein
22 members
½ 2.5
85
Building A New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970
by Thomas H. O'Connor
20 members
½ 4.5
86
Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston
by Gerard O'Neill
19 members
½ 4.5
87
The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock and Roll
by Brett Milano
19 members
½ 3.7
89
King's Hand-book of Boston
by Moses King
15 members
90
Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours
by Mary Melvin Petronella
15 members
91
Boston's Immigrants: 1840-1925
by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
12 members
1 review
94
The Boston Jazz Chronicles
by Richard Vacca
9 members
3
96
Where You Live
by Jill McDonough
9 members
99
Franklin Park (MA) (Images of America)
by Julie Arrison
7 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
100
Newspaper story; one hundred years of the Boston globe
by Louis Martin Lyons
7 members