28 books
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9 voters
New England Books
Showing 1-50 of 13,434
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 147 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,505,826 ratings — published 1868
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,080,313 ratings — published 1992
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.44 — 932,343 ratings — published 1850
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.86 — 274,570 ratings — published 2008
North Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.09 — 122,975 ratings — published 2023
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.03 — 161,482 ratings — published 1958
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.46 — 140,500 ratings — published 1911
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.61 — 471,540 ratings — published 1953
The Cider House Rules (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.17 — 198,060 ratings — published 1985
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.04 — 368,555 ratings — published 2014
The Frozen River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.37 — 644,586 ratings — published 2023
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.60 — 234,515 ratings — published 1959
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,253,848 ratings — published 2024
The House of the Seven Gables (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.44 — 43,565 ratings — published 1851
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.24 — 341,150 ratings — published 1989
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,997 ratings — published 2001
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.89 — 46,726 ratings — published 2006
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.10 — 673,575 ratings — published 1975
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,269 ratings — published 2000
Evvie Drake Starts Over (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.81 — 160,705 ratings — published 2019
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.73 — 59,230 ratings — published 2009
Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.71 — 169,887 ratings — published 1995
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.57 — 626,414 ratings — published 1851
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.00 — 413,114 ratings — published 2019
The Hotel Nantucket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.05 — 319,433 ratings — published 2022
Writers & Lovers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.98 — 210,693 ratings — published 2020
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,444,698 ratings — published 2014
Sandwich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.54 — 213,417 ratings — published 2024
Caleb's Crossing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.86 — 72,902 ratings — published 2011
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,672 ratings — published 1854
The Boston Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,717 ratings — published 2014
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,271,271 ratings — published 1963
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.35 — 684,182 ratings — published 2011
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.07 — 341,826 ratings — published 2023
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.56 — 133,891 ratings — published 2015
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.11 — 241,016 ratings — published 1978
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,297,180 ratings — published 1986
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.81 — 102,212 ratings — published 2014
Maine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.41 — 39,401 ratings — published 2011
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,935 ratings — published 1962
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,984 ratings — published 1997
Heartwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.90 — 115,642 ratings — published 2025
I Have Some Questions for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.58 — 144,441 ratings — published 2023
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,077 ratings — published 1983
Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.13 — 112,482 ratings — published 2019
Mystic River (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.18 — 168,842 ratings — published 2001
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as new-england)
avg rating 4.02 — 286,985 ratings — published 2003
Little Men (Little Women, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.88 — 69,461 ratings — published 1871
A Piece of the World (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 33 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.86 — 69,568 ratings — published 2017
The Witches: Salem, 1692 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as new-england)
avg rating 3.26 — 24,843 ratings — published 2015
“The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft, that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but undeniable loathing of the immigrant swarms he felt were threatening the traditions and monuments of his beloved New England and the whole Eastern seaboard. (And hadn’t Lovecraft done some ghost-writing for a man with a name like Castries? Caster? Carswell?)”
― Our Lady of Darkness
― Our Lady of Darkness
“It has often been said that the New World is deficient in the elements of poetry and romance ; that its bards must of necessity linger over the classic ruins of other lands; and draw their sketches of character from foreign sources, and paint Nature under the soft beauty of an Eastern sky. On the contrary, New England is full of Romance....we have mountains pillaring a sky as blue as that which bends over classic Olympus; streams as bright and beautiful as those of Greece and Italy, and forests richer and nobler than those which of old were haunted by Sylph and Dryad.”
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