Dennis Lehane - William Morrow
Format: Book

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable...

Jhumpa Lahiri - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book

Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals to Cambridge, MA from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world — conflicts that will haunt...

Margaret Atwood - Anchor
Format: Paperback

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, formerly Boston. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray...

B. A. Shapiro - Algonquin Books
Format: Book

Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum -- still the largest unsolved art theft in history -- one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with...

Lily King - Grove Press
Format: Book

Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits...

Anita Diamant - Scribner
Format: Book

Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world...

Emily Franklin - David R. Godine, Publisher
Format: Book

A deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself.  By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase...

Andre Dubus III - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him -- until he was saved by writing. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts...

Michael Patrick MacDonald - Beacon Press; First Edition. 4th edition
Format: Book

The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled...

Mark Peterson - Princeton University Press
Format: Book

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States. In the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill"...

Doug Most - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book

In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great...

Stephen Puleo - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback

Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's...