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Make Way for Ducklings
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Robert McCloskey
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 37,154 ratings
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Mystic River
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 39,826 ratings
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Confidential Communications
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Handmaid's Tale
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1776
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David McCullough
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 52,902 ratings
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Johnny Tremain
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Esther Forbes
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 18,166 ratings
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
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Michael Patrick MacDonald (Goodreads Author)
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 7,354 ratings
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 896 ratings
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The Dante Club
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3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 21,592 ratings
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The Cider House Rules
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 71,126 ratings
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The Given Day
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 9,474 ratings
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A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
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Back Bay (Peter Fallon, #1)
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 282,485 ratings
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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Stephen Puleo
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 930 ratings
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Shutter Island
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The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 5,339 ratings
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The Lace Reader
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3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 15,559 ratings
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Collected Poems
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,244 ratings
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Prince of Thieves
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
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Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob
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Dick Lehr
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,552 ratings
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The Namesake
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Jhumpa Lahiri
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 109,218 ratings
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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City Walks: Boston: 50 Adventures on Foot
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China Williams
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob
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Kevin Weeks
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 482 ratings
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The Proper Bostonians
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 70,117 ratings
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The God Complex
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Chris Titus (Goodreads Author)
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol I: The Pox Party
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M.T. Anderson
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 7,534 ratings
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The Bostonians
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Henry James
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 2,673 ratings
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The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
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Howie Carr
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Walden
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 56,441 ratings
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Intuition
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Allegra Goodman
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 2,481 ratings
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The Late George Apley
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John P. Marquand
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Townie: A Memoir
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Andre Dubus III
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 3,494 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
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Infinite Jest
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4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 23,957 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time, #1)
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 320,608 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women #1)
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 741,970 ratings
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While the Music Lasts: My Life in Politics
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Bloomsday: The Bostoniad
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4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Bell Jar: A Novel
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 205,092 ratings
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The Hub: Boston Past And Present
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Harvard Yard (Peter Fallon, #2)
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 482 ratings
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TALKING HEADS:77
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 3,197 ratings
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On Beauty
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 28,077 ratings
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Night Swim
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3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 479 ratings
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The Heretic's Daughter
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 16,791 ratings
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Steel Guitar (A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery #4)
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 535 ratings
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The Boston Massacre
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
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Katherine Howe
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 27,559 ratings
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol II: The Kingdom on the Waves
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,793 ratings
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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Boston Noir
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3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Flesh and Blood
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Still Alice
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The Recycled Citizen (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #7)
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Withdrawing Room (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #2)
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 273 ratings
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The Resurrection Man (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #10)
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Odd Job (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery, #11)
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Palace Guard (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #3)
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 259 ratings
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The Family Vault (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #1)
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 464 ratings
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The Convivial Codfish (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery, #5)
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Charlotte MacLeod
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The House of the Seven Gables
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3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 14,891 ratings
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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J. Anthony Lukas
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 799 ratings
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The Crucible
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3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 125,904 ratings
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The Bean & the Scene: Drawings of Boston and Cambridge
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Barbara Westman
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Beacon Hill Christmas
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 6,646 ratings
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
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Scott Turow
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 3,315 ratings
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Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 12,566 ratings
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Promised Land (Spenser, #4)
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 2,034 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Nathaniel Philbrick
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 12,946 ratings
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John Adams
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 71,666 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 55,170 ratings
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The Devil in Massachusetts
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3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 66 ratings
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A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Dark Harbor
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For the Love of Art
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Journey to the Ring: Behind the Scenes with the 2010 NBA Champion Lakers
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Joy Street
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Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 62 ratings
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