Boston Book List

Our colleagues at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts, invite you to get to know the area and its people before, during or after your arrival, by exploring some of these Boston-related titles.

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Classics

Make way for ducklings
McCloskey, Robert, 1914-2003.

The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,

The Bostonians
James, Henry

The late George Apley
Marquand, John P

Mysteries

Cutter's run (Brady Coyne)
Tapply, William G.

The Godwulf manuscript (Spenser)
Parker, Robert B., 1932-

The big Dig (Carlotta Carlyle)
Barnes, Linda.

Invasion of privacy (John F. Cuddy)
Healy, J. F. (Jeremiah F.)

Murder at the Gardner (Homer Kelly)
Langton, Jane

Quaker silence (Elizabeth Elliot)
Allen, Irene

Poetry

The midnight ride of Paul Revere
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Complete poems
Dickinson, Emily

Nonfiction

1776
John Adams
McCullough, David G.

Spenser's Boston
Parker, Robert B., 1932-

Common ground
Lukas, J. Anthony

Strangled
McGrory, Brian

Rise to rebellion
Shaara, Jeff, 1952

Fenway : a biography in words and pictures
Shaughnessy, Dan.

In and out of Boston with (or without) children
Chesler, Bernice.

WalkBoston : walking tours of Boston's unique neighborhoods
Appalachian Mountain Club

Literary Trail of Greater Boston
Wilson, Susan

The Boston Irish : a political history
O'Connor, Thomas H., 1922-

Eminent Bostonians
O'Connor, Thomas H.,

Arthur Fiedler: Papa, the Pops and me
Fiedler, Johanna.

Romance

Julie and Romeo
Ray, Jeanne.

Must love dogs
Cook, Claire

Mail
Host family
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning saved my life
Medwed, Mameve.

The pursuit of Alice Thrift
Lipman, Elinor.

Love story
Segal, Erich

The Paper Chase
Osborn, John Jay

Fiction/Historical Fiction

Back Bay
Harvard Yard
Martin, William, 1950-

Johnny Tremaine
Forbes, Esther

Mystic river
Lehane, Dennis

Intuition
Goodman, Allegra.

Missed connections : a novel
Ford, Elaine

The Revolution Continues

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