Boston Books

1.
Make Way for Ducklings
Make Way for Ducklings 4.25 avg rating — 90,423 ratings
2.
Mystic River
Mystic River 4.17 avg rating — 158,968 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,322,891 ratings
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Johnny Tremain
Johnny Tremain 3.70 avg rating — 50,450 ratings
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1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,319 ratings
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie 4.09 avg rating — 13,648 ratings
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Confidential Communications
Confidential Communications 3.75 avg rating — 85 ratings
8.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
An Old-Fashioned Girl 4.09 avg rating — 21,860 ratings
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The Given Day (Coughlin #1)
The Given Day (Coughlin #1) 4.07 avg rating — 28,123 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,305 ratings
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The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules 4.17 avg rating — 192,661 ratings
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 4.10 avg rating — 2,819 ratings
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The Island of Worthy Boys
The Island of Worthy Boys 4.21 avg rating — 517 ratings
14.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,392,916 ratings
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Prince of Thieves
Prince of Thieves 3.98 avg rating — 6,260 ratings
16.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,836 ratings
17.
The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1)
The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1) 3.42 avg rating — 42,426 ratings
18.
Black Mass
Black Mass
by: Dick Lehr
3.81 avg rating — 8,475 ratings
19.
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 4.02 avg rating — 5,025 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 1,263,332 ratings
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A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 45,254 ratings
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Shutter Island
Shutter Island 4.13 avg rating — 215,599 ratings
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John Adams
John Adams 4.08 avg rating — 373,224 ratings
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The Namesake
The Namesake 4.02 avg rating — 280,143 ratings
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Townie
Townie 3.79 avg rating — 8,336 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,640 ratings
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Back Bay (Peter Fallon, #1)
Back Bay (Peter Fallon, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 2,379 ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating — 203,024 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,337 ratings
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The Crucible
The Crucible 3.61 avg rating — 452,144 ratings
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The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)
The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)
by: L.J. Shen
4.21 avg rating — 54,081 ratings
32.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,649 ratings
33.
The Bostonians
The Bostonians 3.58 avg rating — 7,841 ratings
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The Late George Apley
The Late George Apley 3.67 avg rating — 2,369 ratings
35.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.08 avg rating — 2,672 ratings
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The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century 3.68 avg rating — 1,950 ratings
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The Proper Bostonians
The Proper Bostonians 3.96 avg rating — 81 ratings
38.
The Lace Reader
The Lace Reader 3.48 avg rating — 29,220 ratings
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The Boston Girl
The Boston Girl 3.83 avg rating — 88,176 ratings
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Still Alice
Still Alice 4.32 avg rating — 355,931 ratings
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Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4) 4.16 avg rating — 41,498 ratings
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On Beauty
On Beauty 3.78 avg rating — 89,018 ratings
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The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 20,946 ratings
44.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,158 ratings
45.
The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America 4.02 avg rating — 880 ratings
46.
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 4,399,561 ratings
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Rise of Silas Lapham 3.43 avg rating — 4,279 ratings
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City Walks: Boston: 50 Adventures on Foot
City Walks: Boston: 50 Adventures on Foot 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Hub: Boston Past and Present
The Hub: Boston Past and Present 3.46 avg rating — 54 ratings
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work 3.62 avg rating — 1,672 ratings
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Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob
Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob 3.78 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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Rise to Rebellion
Rise to Rebellion 4.22 avg rating — 10,175 ratings
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A Civil Action
A Civil Action 3.99 avg rating — 16,812 ratings
54.
The God Complex
The God Complex 3.71 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
55.
The Monster (Boston Belles, #3)
The Monster (Boston Belles, #3)
by: L.J. Shen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30,672 ratings
56.
The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1) 3.55 avg rating — 15,982 ratings
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 57,769 ratings
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families 4.32 avg rating — 2,727 ratings
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Intuition
Intuition 3.33 avg rating — 4,212 ratings
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The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables 3.45 avg rating — 42,102 ratings
61.
Harvard Yard (Peter Fallon, #2)
Harvard Yard (Peter Fallon, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
61.
Inside the O'Briens
Inside the O'Briens 4.01 avg rating — 50,057 ratings
63.
Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under
Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under 3.78 avg rating — 947 ratings
64.
Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston 3.87 avg rating — 177 ratings
65.
Watch Her (Hester Thursby Mystery, #3)
Watch Her (Hester Thursby Mystery, #3) 3.85 avg rating — 897 ratings
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Hound
Hound 3.42 avg rating — 121 ratings
66.
Writers & Lovers
Writers & Lovers
by: Lily King
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 160,576 ratings
68.
A Slepyng Hound to Wake
A Slepyng Hound to Wake 3.52 avg rating — 44 ratings
69.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 4.13 avg rating — 1,251,484 ratings
70.
The Heretic's Daughter
The Heretic's Daughter 3.79 avg rating — 36,938 ratings
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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre 4.18 avg rating — 74 ratings
72.
The House of Velvet and Glass
The House of Velvet and Glass 3.35 avg rating — 7,926 ratings
73.
While the Music Lasts: My Life in Politics
While the Music Lasts: My Life in Politics 3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Bloomsday: The Bostoniad
Bloomsday: The Bostoniad 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season 3.83 avg rating — 5,459 ratings
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Summer of '49
Summer of '49 4.11 avg rating — 9,829 ratings
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The Europeans
The Europeans 3.59 avg rating — 5,304 ratings
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A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike
A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike 3.57 avg rating — 76 ratings
79.
Talking Heads: 77
Talking Heads: 77 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
80.
In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World
In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World 3.81 avg rating — 106 ratings
81.
Sacred (Kenzie & Gennaro, #3)
Sacred (Kenzie & Gennaro, #3) 3.96 avg rating — 23,369 ratings
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School 3.72 avg rating — 9,168 ratings
83.
The Bean & the Scene: Drawings of Boston and Cambridge
The Bean & the Scene: Drawings of Boston and Cambridge really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Brave Black Regiment: History of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1863-1865
A Brave Black Regiment: History of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1863-1865 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 80 ratings
85.
A Beacon Hill Christmas
A Beacon Hill Christmas it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
86.
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship 4.05 avg rating — 5,886 ratings
87.
Truly, Madly (Lucy Valentine, #1)
Truly, Madly (Lucy Valentine, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 7,260 ratings
87.
The Art Forger
The Art Forger 3.75 avg rating — 91,768 ratings
89.
Night Swim
Night Swim 3.27 avg rating — 1,418 ratings
89.
Steel Guitar (A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery, #4)
Steel Guitar (A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery, #4) 3.89 avg rating — 1,455 ratings
91.
Cold Iron (Cold Iron, #1)
Cold Iron (Cold Iron, #1) 3.55 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
92.
The Kingdom on the Waves (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #2)
The Kingdom on the Waves (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #2) 3.73 avg rating — 3,978 ratings
92.
Boston Noir
Boston Noir 3.41 avg rating — 1,974 ratings
92.
A New Lease on Death (Ruby and Cordelia Mysteries #1)
A New Lease on Death (Ruby and Cordelia Mysteries #1) 3.63 avg rating — 2,991 ratings
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Flesh and Blood
Flesh and Blood 4.06 avg rating — 6,162 ratings
95.
The Recycled Citizen (Kelling & Bittersohn, #7)
The Recycled Citizen (Kelling & Bittersohn, #7) 4.01 avg rating — 939 ratings
95.
The Withdrawing Room (Kelling & Bittersohn, #2)
The Withdrawing Room (Kelling & Bittersohn, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
95.
The Resurrection Man (Kelling & Bittersohn, #10)
The Resurrection Man (Kelling & Bittersohn, #10) 3.94 avg rating — 785 ratings
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The Odd Job (Kelling & Bittersohn, #11)
The Odd Job (Kelling & Bittersohn, #11) 4.01 avg rating — 837 ratings
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Basketball Junkie
Basketball Junkie 4.11 avg rating — 1,558 ratings
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