A Boston Reading List

Descrição
Inspired by the lending library at the Mayor's Office, at Boston City Hall.
1
The Scarlet Letter
por Nathaniel Hawthorne
36,507 membros
372 críticas
½ 3.4
3 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, Maybelline
2
Make Way for Ducklings
por Robert McCloskey
10,684 membros
182 críticas
½ 4.3
3 Members
susanbooks, cej1027, Maybelline
3
The Chelsea Whistle: A Memoir
por Michelle Tea
232 membros
3 críticas
3.8
Member
susanbooks
4
Murder in Boston
por Ken Englade
39 membros
3
Member
dara85
5
Ani słowa prawdy
por Jacek Piekara
25 membros
½ 4.5
Member
rodrio
6
The Complete Fiction
por H. P. Lovecraft
2,253 membros
15 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
7
The Rise of Silas Lapham
por William Dean Howells
1,423 membros
11 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
susanbooks
8
The Boston Strangler
por Gerold Frank
335 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.5
Member
dara85
9
El Chavo: Locos por la lucha libre / Crazy for Wrestling (PB)
por María Domínguez
41 membros
1 crítica
3
Member
rodrio
10
The Bone Garden
por Tess Gerritsen
2,568 membros
91 críticas
3.8
Member
dara85
11
Death at an Early Age
por Jonathan Kozol
399 membros
6 críticas
4.2
Member
Maybelline
12
Map of Ireland: A Novel
por Stephanie Grant
85 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
susanbooks
13
Condorito! SPA: La Aventura Comienza (Spanish Edition)
por Pepo
32 membros
1 crítica
2.8
Member
rodrio
14
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
por Michael Rawson
78 membros
5 críticas
4
Member
Maybelline
15
Diary of Anna Green Winslow
por Anna Green Winslow
58 membros
4
Member
susanbooks
16
The Living Is Easy
por Dorothy West
227 membros
5 críticas
3.9
Member
susanbooks
17
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
por Sam Bass Warner
173 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.3
Member
susanbooks
18
The Dante Club
por Matthew Pearl
7,515 membros
170 críticas
½ 3.4
19
Still Alice
por Lisa Genova
6,426 membros
450 críticas
4.2
20
The Given Day
por Dennis Lehane
2,933 membros
139 críticas
4
21
The Godwulf Manuscript
por Robert B. Parker
1,648 membros
45 críticas
½ 3.5
22
God Save the Child
por Robert B. Parker
1,173 membros
27 críticas
½ 3.7
23
Caucasia
por Danzy Senna
958 membros
21 críticas
4
24
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
por George V. Higgins
942 membros
44 críticas
4
25
The Image of the City
por Kevin Lynch
934 membros
5 críticas
4.1
26
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
por Michael Patrick MacDonald
909 membros
21 críticas
4
27
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
por Witold Rybczynski
692 membros
7 críticas
4
28
The Late George Apley
por John P. Marquand
668 membros
9 críticas
½ 3.7
29
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
por Theodore H. White
645 membros
7 críticas
4
30
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
por Esther Forbes
639 membros
7 críticas
3.8
31
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
por J. Anthony Lukas
590 membros
6 críticas
½ 4.3
32
The Last Hurrah
por Edwin O'Connor
487 membros
7 críticas
3.8
33
The Edge of Sadness
por Edwin O'Connor
421 membros
14 críticas
3.9
34
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
por Henry Mayer
333 membros
½ 4.3
36
Great Short Works of Henry James
por Henry James
261 membros
3.9
37
Boston: A Topographical History
por Walter Muir Whitehill
224 membros
2 críticas
4
38
Beacon Street Mourning
por Dianne Day
194 membros
2 críticas
3.8
39
Mapping Boston
por Alex Krieger
182 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.5
40
The Proper Bostonians
por Cleveland Amory
154 membros
2 críticas
4.2
41
Mortal Friends
por James Carroll
150 membros
½ 3.4
42
Lost Boston
por Jane Holtz Kay
148 membros
2 críticas
3.8
43
The Art of Scandal: The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner
por Douglass Shand-Tucci
142 membros
4 críticas
3.2
44
The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans
por Herbert J. Gans
140 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.5
45
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958
por Jack Beatty
130 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.7
46
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
por John C. Esposito
128 membros
9 críticas
4
47
Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation, Enlarged Edition
por Oscar Handlin
115 membros
1 crítica
3.9
48
The Boston Irish: A Political History
por Thomas H. O'Connor
110 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.6
49
Improper Bostonians: Lesbians and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland
por History Project
105 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.7
50
A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900
por Stephen Puleo
95 membros
2 críticas
3.8
51
Revere Beach Boulevard
por Roland Merullo
89 membros
1 crítica
4
52
Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
por Nancy S. Seasholes
80 membros
½ 4.5
53
The City Below
por James Carroll
80 membros
½ 3.3
55
Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100
por David Alexander Smith
78 membros
3 críticas
4.1
56
Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
por Michael Douglas
78 membros
1 crítica
3.2
57
Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-1950
por Douglass Shand-Tucci
77 membros
4
58
The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City
por Sam Bass Warner
74 membros
59
Cityscapes of Boston
por Robert Campbell
72 membros
1 crítica
4.1
60
The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions
por Hillel Levine
69 membros
½ 3.5
61
The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,
por Peter Davison
68 membros
2 críticas
3.9
62
Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
por Nat Hentoff
64 membros
½ 3.3
63
Dorchester Days
por Eugene Richards
63 membros
1 crítica
4.1
64
Selected Poems
por Robert Pinsky
63 membros
½ 2.5
65
Songs from the Alley
por Kathleen Hirsch
62 membros
1 crítica
3
66
Selected Poems: 1958-1984
por John Wieners
61 membros
4
67
Boston ways: high, by, and folk
por George F. Weston
60 membros
3
68
Beneath The Streets Of Boston: Building America's First Subway
por Joe McKendry
56 membros
1 crítica
3.9
69
Inventing the Charles River
por Karl Haglund
55 membros
1 crítica
4
70
Spenser's Boston
por Robert B. Parker
52 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.7
71
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System
por Cynthia Zaitzevsky
50 membros
½ 3.5
72
Imagining Boston: A Literary Landscape
por Shaun O'Connell
49 membros
73
A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940
por Erica E. Hirshler
46 membros
1 crítica
4
74
Fear in Fenway: A Duffy House Mystery
por Crabbe Evers
45 membros
½ 2.5
75
Boston A to Z
por Thomas H. O'Connor
44 membros
3
76
Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and their Struggle for Equality Changed America
por Stephen Kendrick
38 membros
3 críticas
½ 4.5
77
A Home in the Heart of a City
por Kathleen Hirsch
31 membros
½ 3.5
78
From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors
por Lawrence J. Vale
30 membros
4
79
Portrait of a Port: Boston, 1852-1914
por W. H. Bunting
28 membros
4
80
Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
por Gerald Gamm
25 membros
81
The Garden Squares of Boston
por Phebe S. Goodman
24 membros
1 crítica
82
Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850 to 1920
por Alexander von Hoffman
23 membros
1 crítica
2
83
Behind the state capitol, or, Cincinnati Pike: A collection of poetry
por John Wieners
22 membros
84
Still Among the Living
por Zachary Klein
21 membros
½ 2.5
85
Building A New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970
por Thomas H. O'Connor
20 membros
½ 4.5
86
The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock and Roll
por Brett Milano
20 membros
½ 3.7
87
Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston
por Gerard O'Neill
19 membros
½ 4.5
88
Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston, Revised: From Newburyport to Plymouth
por Marty Carlock
16 membros
½ 3.5
89
Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours
por Mary Melvin Petronella
16 membros
90
King's Hand-book of Boston
por Moses King
15 membros
91
Boston's Immigrants: 1840-1925
por Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
12 membros
1 crítica
92
Rites of way; the politics of transportation in Boston and the U.S. city
por Alan Lupo
12 membros
93
The Boston Jazz Chronicles
por Richard Vacca
11 membros
3
95
Southie Won't Go: A Teacher's Diary of the Desegregation of South Boston High School
por Ione Malloy
9 membros
½ 2.5
96
Where You Live
por Jill McDonough
9 membros
99
Liberty's chosen home : the politics of violence in Boston
por Alan Lupo
8 membros
100
Franklin Park (MA) (Images of America)
por Julie Arrison
7 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.5