The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Massachusetts

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17130 Becoming a Man Paul Monette 1992 American English
17130 Picture Palace Paul Theroux 1978 American English
17130 Paul Revere and the World He Lived In Esther Forbes 1942 American English
17130 Self-Consciousness John Updike 1989 American English
17130 The Ruin Of All Witches Malcolm Gaskill 2021 British English
17130 Summer Sisters Judy Blume 1998 American English
17130 The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley 1988 American English
17130 The Inflationary Universe Alan Guth 1997 American English
17130 Book Of Ages Jill Lepore 2013 American English
17130 Dearest Friend Lynne Withey 1981 American English
17130 Superior Women Alice Adams 1984 American English
17130 Barkskins Annie Proulx 2016 American English
17130 The House Of God Samuel Shem 1978 American English
17130 The Other Daughter Lisa Gardner 1999 American English
17130 Never Tell Lisa Gardner 2019 American English
17130 Look For Me Lisa Gardner 2018 American English
17130 The 4th Man Lisa Gardner 2017 American English
17130 Find Her Lisa Gardner 2016 American English
17130 Crash & Burn Lisa Gardner 2015 American English
17130 Fear Nothing Lisa Gardner 2014 American English
17130 The 7th Month Lisa Gardner 2012 American English
17130 The Next Accident Lisa Gardner 2001 American English
17130 The Perfect Husband Lisa Gardner 1997 American English
17130 Catch Me Lisa Gardner 2012 American English
17130 Love You More Lisa Gardner 2011 American English
17130 Live To Tell Lisa Gardner 2010 American English
17130 The Neighbor Lisa Gardner 2009 American English
17130 Hide Lisa Gardner 2007 American English
17130 Alone Lisa Gardner 2005 American English
17130 Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson 2003 American English
17130 All Through The Night Suzanne Brockmann 2007 American English
17130 The Imperfect Life Of T. S. Eliot Lyndall Gordon 1998 British English
17130 Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman 1989 British English
17130 The Victorian Internet Tom Standage 1998 British English
17130 The Neptune File Tom Standage 2000 British English
16975 The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever 1964 American English
17130 Theodore Rex Edmund Morris 2001 American English
17130 The Glorious Cause Jeff Shaara 2002 American English
17130 Rise To Rebellion Jeff Shaara 2001 American English
17130 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17130 Eight Men Out Eliot Asinof 1963 American English
17110 The Portable Thoreau Henry David Thoreau 1947 American English
17130 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
17130 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17130 The Food Lab J. Kenji López-Alt 2015 American English
17130 Free To Learn Peter O. Gray 2013 American English
17130 American Primitive Mary Oliver 1983 American English
17130 The Whale Philip Hoare 2008 British English
17130 36 Arguments For The Existence Of God Rebecca Goldstein 2010 American English
17130 Our Missing Hearts Celeste Ng 2022 American English
17130 Still Alice Lisa Genova 2007 American English
17130 The Way We Never Were Stephanie Countz 1992 Unknown English
17130 Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen 1993 American English
17130 H.P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft American Unknown
17130 Made In America Bill Bryson 1994 American English
17130 The Dante Club Matthew Pearl 2003 American English
17130 The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop 2001 Unknown English
17130 Some Strange Music Draws Me In Griffin Hansbury 2024 Unknown Unknown
17130 The Winner Teddy Wayne 2024 Unknown English
17130 American Covenant Yuval Levin 2016 American English
17130 My Adventures As An Illustrator Norman Rockwell 1995 American English
17130 Democracy Awakening Heather Cox Richardson 2023 American English
17130 A Drink Before The War Dennis Lehane 1994 American English
17130 The Glass Universe Dava Sobel 2016 American English
17130 The Nest Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney 2016 American English
17130 Death In A Tenured Position Amanda Cross 1981 American English
17130 Revolutionary Characters Gordon S. Wood 2006 American English
17130 The First American H.W. Brands 2000 American English
17130 Playing For Keeps David Halberstam 1999 American English
17130 Run Ann Patchett 2007 American English
17130 Sea Of Glory Nathaniel Philbrick 2003 American English
17130 Selected Stories Of Andre Dubus Andre Dubus 1996 American English
17130 Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell 2011 American English
17130 Bloody Jack L.A. Meyer 2002 American English
17130 Moby Dick Will Eisner 1998 Unknown Unknown
17130 Where Rainbows End Cecelia Ahern 2004 Irish English
17130 The Only Plane In The Sky Garrett M. Graff 2019 American English
17130 Orfeo Richard Powers 2014 American English
17130 Life On The Run Bill Bradley 1976 American English
17130 The Soul Of An Octopus Sy Montgomery 2015 American English
17130 Lifespan David A. Sinclair 2019 Australian English
17130 The Singularity Is Near Ray Kurzweil 2005 American English
17130 More Work For Mother Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1983 American English
17130 The Chain Adrian McKinty 2019 Irish English
17130 Kantika Elizabeth Graver 2023 Unknown English
17130 The Odyssey Of Phillis Wheatley David Waldstreicher 2023 Unknown English
17130 The Letters Of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller, Domhnall Mitchell 2024 American English
17130 Freethinkers Susan Jacoby 2004 American English
17096 Malcolm X Malcolm X 1965 American English
17130 Locke & Key Slipcase Set Joe Hill 2014 American English
17130 The Cape Cod Mystery Phoebe Atwood Taylor 1931 American English
17130 The Breaks Of The Game David Halberstam 1981 American English
17130 The Summer Game Roger Angell 1972 American English
17130 Babe Robert Creamer 1974 American English
17130 Joe Di Maggio Richard Ben Cramer 2000 American English
17130 Veeck As In Wreck Bill Veeck, Ed Linn 1962 American English
17130 The Celebrant Eric Rolfe Greenberg 1983 American English
17130 The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract Bill James 1985 American English
17130 The Glory Of Their Times Lawrence Ritter 1966 American English
17130 The Complete Armchair Book Of Baseball John Thorn 2004 American English
17130 Lords Of The Realm John Helyar 1994 American English
17130 Golf Dreams John Updike 1996 American English
17130 In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle Madeleine Blais 1995 American English
17130 The Story Of American Golf Herbert Warren Wind 1975 American English
17130 Farewell To Sport Paul Gallico 1970 American English
17130 The Science Of Hitting Ted Williams, John Underwood 1971 American English
17130 Road Swing Steve Rushin 1998 American English
17130 Game Misconduct Russ Conway 1995 Unknown English
17130 Little Girls In Pretty Boxes Joan Ryan 1995 American English
17130 The Penguin Complete Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe American English
17130 The Unseen World Liz Moore 2016 American English
17130 The Winthrop Woman Anya Seton 1958 American English
17130 Conversations With David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace 2012 American English
17130 Dan Brown Omnibus Dan Brown 2004 American English
17130 Mindhunter John E. Douglas 1995 American English
17130 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17130 The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1999 American English
17130 Coma Robin Cook 1977 American English
17130 We Believe The Children Richard Beck 2015 Unknown English
17130 All We Can Save Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 2020 Unknown English