Recently the Boston Globe listed 100 Essential New England books on their web site. The State Library holds many of these titles, some of which can be accessed electronically through the library catalog as an e-book or audio book file to download with a valid State Library card. Title, author, and call number information is listed below. If you see something that piques your interest, stop by for some summer reading!
All souls : A Family Story from Southie / Michael Patrick MacDonald F73.68.S7 M33 1999
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Junot Diaz PS3554.I259 B75 2007
A Massachusetts Book Award Winner
The City Below / James Carroll PS3553.A764 C58 1994
A Civil Action / Jonathan Harr KF228.A7 H37 1995
Cod : A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World / Mark Kurlansky PN6071.C66 K87 1997
Common Ground : A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families / J. Anthony Lukas F73.9.A1 L85 1985
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Mark Twain E-Book and Audio Book File
The Emperor's Children / Claire Messud PS3563.E8134 E47 2006
A Massachusetts Book Award Winner
Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton Audio Book File
Girl, Interrupted / Susanna Kaysen RC464.K36 A3 1993
John Adams / David McCullough E322 .M38 2001
The Last Hurrah / by Edwin O'Connor PS3565.C55 L3 1956
Little Women / Louisa May Alcott Audio Book File
Also available as an E-Book in the Collected Works of Louisa May Alcott
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 / by Edward Bellamy PS1086 .L6 1995
Massachusetts : A Novel / Nancy Zaroulis PS3576.A74 M37 1991
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War / Nathaniel Philbrick F68 .P44 2006
A Massachusetts Book Award Winner
Mystic River / Dennis Lehane PS3562.E426 M97 2001
A Massachusetts Book Award Winner
Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout Audio Book File
One Boy's Boston, 1887-1901 / Samuel Eliot Morison F73.5 .M6
Paul Revere's Ride / David Hackett Fischer F69.R43 F57 1994
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea / Sebastian Junger QC945 .J66 1997
Profiles in Courage / John F. Kennedy E176 .K4 1956
Inaugural and Memorial editions are also available.
Promised Land / Robert B. Parker E-Book
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 / Jack Beatty F70.C85 B44 1992
Science and Health: With Key to the Scriptures / by Mary Baker Eddy BX6941.S4 1994
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists are Unraveling the Mysteries of our Favorite Crustacean / Trevor Corson QL444.M33 C675 2004
Summer of '49 / David Halberstam GV875.B62 H35 1989
The Very Hungry Caterpillar / by Eric Carle PZ7.C21476 Ve 1979
A Massachusetts Book Award Winner
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail / Bill Bryson E-Book
- Lacy Crews, Preservation Librarian
