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The Boston Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as boston)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,875 ratings — published 2014
Mystic River (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as boston)
avg rating 4.17 — 169,786 ratings — published 2001
Small Mercies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as boston)
avg rating 4.27 — 76,877 ratings — published 2023
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as boston)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,534 ratings — published 1994
The Given Day (Coughlin #1)
by (shelved 75 times as boston)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,127 ratings — published 2008
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as boston)
avg rating 3.77 — 96,664 ratings — published 2012
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
by (shelved 66 times as boston)
avg rating 4.16 — 43,450 ratings — published 1998
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as boston)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,948 ratings — published 1999
The Woman in the Library (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as boston)
avg rating 3.50 — 90,416 ratings — published 2022
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as boston)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,295 ratings — published 2003
Live by Night (Coughlin, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as boston)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,063 ratings — published 2012
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
by (shelved 55 times as boston)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,925 ratings — published 2010
Writers & Lovers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as boston)
avg rating 3.97 — 219,800 ratings — published 2020
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as boston)
avg rating 3.44 — 935,522 ratings — published 1850
Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as boston)
avg rating 4.09 — 24,581 ratings — published 1999
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as boston)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,434,714 ratings — published 2022
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as boston)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,770,065 ratings — published 2016
Black Mass (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as boston)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,828 ratings — published 2000
Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as boston)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,793 ratings — published 1996
Make Way for Ducklings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as boston)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,476 ratings — published 1941
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as boston)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,813 ratings — published 1985
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as boston)
avg rating 4.10 — 180,074 ratings — published 2001
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as boston)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,314 ratings — published 1971
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as boston)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,625 ratings — published 1999
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as boston)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,284,205 ratings — published 1963
Sacred (Kenzie & Gennaro, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as boston)
avg rating 3.96 — 24,468 ratings — published 1997
The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as boston)
avg rating 3.93 — 21,990 ratings — published 1973
Inside the O'Briens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as boston)
avg rating 4.01 — 51,673 ratings — published 2015
Johnny Tremain (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as boston)
avg rating 3.70 — 52,151 ratings — published 1943
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as boston)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,860 ratings — published 2013
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as boston)
avg rating 4.14 — 235,919 ratings — published 2003
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as boston)
avg rating 4.33 — 364,916 ratings — published 2007
Boston Noir (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as boston)
avg rating 3.41 — 2,095 ratings — published 2009
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as boston)
avg rating 4.02 — 287,733 ratings — published 2003
Saints for All Occasions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as boston)
avg rating 3.89 — 28,715 ratings — published 2017
The Drop (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as boston)
avg rating 3.79 — 16,555 ratings — published 2014
The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9)
by (shelved 24 times as boston)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,097 ratings — published 2011
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as boston)
avg rating 3.80 — 12,019 ratings — published 2004
The Lioness of Boston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as boston)
avg rating 3.64 — 10,912 ratings — published 2023
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as boston)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,463 ratings — published 2019
A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as boston)
avg rating 4.04 — 352 ratings — published 2010
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as boston)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,872 ratings — published 2009
Eight Perfect Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as boston)
avg rating 3.62 — 98,326 ratings — published 2020
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as boston)
avg rating 4.30 — 224,381 ratings — published 2019
The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as boston)
avg rating 4.14 — 65,144 ratings — published 2003
The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as boston)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,886 ratings — published 2008
The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as boston)
avg rating 3.42 — 43,151 ratings — published 2003
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as boston)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,720 ratings — published 2014
“...if you come across someone sad and you do not try to make them smile, then you have disgraced your own humanity.”
― Haunting the Deep
― Haunting the Deep
“...Saygıdeğer Bede, kuyrukluyıldızların "krallıklarda devrimler çıkacağına, vebaya, savaşa, rüzgâra ya da sıcağa alamet" olduğunu söylemişti. John Knox kuyrukluyıldızlara tanrısal öfkenin kanıtları gözüyle bakar, başka İskoç Protestanları ise bunların, "Katoliklerin kökünü kazıtması için krala bir ihtar" olduğunu düşünürlerdi. Kuyrukluyıldızlar yönünden Amerika, özellikle de New England haklı olarak ilgi çekici bir yerdir. 1652 yılında, tam ünlü Mr. Cotton'un hastalandığı sırada bir kuyrukluyıldız görülmüş ve o ölünce kaybolmuştu. Aradan on yıl bile geçmeden, Boston şehrinin günahkâr halkına, "şehvetperestlikten ve sarhoşluk yoluyla, yeni moda elbiseler giymek yoluyla Tanrının salih mahlukatına karşı küfürde bulunmaktan" vazgeçmelerini ihtar için, bir kuyrukluyıldız göründü...”
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
