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Books set in Massachusetts:
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page (1st book of series)
Death By Cashmere by Sally Goldenbaum (1st book of series)
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
More books set in Massachusetts:
Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Good City by Emily Hiestand
The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker (1st book in series, set in Boston)
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen (1st book in series)
A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane (1st book in series)
Game Six: Cincinnati Boston and the 1975 World Series
Rebound!: Basketball, Busing, Larry Bird, and the Rebirth of Boston by Michael Connelly
The Big One: Five Weeks in Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish by Dave Kinney
A Shoot on Martha's Vineyard by Philip R. Craig
On the Vineyard: A Year in the Life of an Island by Jane Carpineto
Bird News: Vagrants and Visitors on a Peculiar Island by E. Vernon Laux
A Beautiful Place to Die by Philip R. Craig (1st book in series)
Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons
Wedding by Dorothy West
The God Complex is set between Prague (Czech Republic) and Boston, MA (50% each). The locations in Boston primarily include Chinatown and the seaport area.
More books set in Massachusetts:
The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro
Beautiful Day by Elin Hilderbrand
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Cascade by Maryanne O'Hara
Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
Conversion by Katherine Howe
Cradle and All by James Patterson
The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott
The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
John Adams by David McCullough
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Still Life With Murder by P.B. Ryan (1st book in Nell Sweeney Mystery series)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
More books set in Massachusetts:
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Alone by Lisa Gardner (1st book in Detective D.D. Warren series)
Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
Dance Upon the Air by Nora Roberts (1st book in Three Sisters Island series)
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park
The Good House by Ann Leary
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Life's a Beach by Claire Cook
Love Story by Erich Segal (1st book in Love Story series)
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Nantucket Sisters by Nancy Thayer
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand
Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt
Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts
The Widow's War by Sally Cabot Gunning
Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand
Witch Child by Celia Rees (1st book in Witch Child series)
More books set in Massachusetts:
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard
A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials by Ann Rinaldi
A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson
A Charmed Place by Antoinette Stockenberg
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Daughter of the Loom by Tracie Peterson (1st book in the Bells of Lowell series)
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America by Amy Belding Brown
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane (1st book in Coughlin series)
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
Island Girls by Nancy Thayer
The Last Fish Tale by Mark Kurlansky
Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill
A Nantucket Christmas by Nancy Thayer
Nightbird by Alice Hoffman
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
One Bad Apple by Sheila Connolly (1st book in Orchard series)
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (1st book in The Penderwicks series)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies by Ellen Cooney
The Square Root of Murder by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand
More books set in Massachusetts:
Absolute Certainty by Rose Connors
Against the Tide by Elizabeth Camden
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather
All I Love and Know by Judith Frank
Alphabet in My Hands by Marjorie Agosín
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison
April Morning by Howard Fast
Black Box by Cassia Leo
Black Rainbow by J.J. McAvoy
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
The Book of Luke by Jenny O'Connell
The Bostonians by Henry James
Coma by Robin Cook
The Comfort of Lies by Randy Susan Meyers
Faith by Jennifer Haigh
The First Husband by Laura Dave
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
Hero by Samantha Young
The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe
Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian (1st book in Midnight Breed series)
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill
Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys by Kate Brian
Off Sides by Sawyer Bennett (1st book in Off series)
An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
One Night That Changes Everything by Lauren Barnholdt
A Passion Most Pure by Julie Lessman (1st book in Daughters of Boston series)
Run by Ann Patchett
Sleeping with the Fishes by MaryJanice Davidson (1st book in Fred the Mermaid series)
A Song for Julia by Charles Sheehan-Miles (1st book in Thompson Sisters series)
The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan (1st book in Magnus Chase & the Gods of the Asgard)
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Truly, Madly by Heather Webber (1st book in Lucy Valentine series)
The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann (1st book in Troubleshooters series)
A Wedding In December by Anita Shreve
What's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria Laurie (1st Ghost Hunter Mystery)
Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
More books set in Massachusetts:
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand
Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
Been There, Done That by Carol Snow
Belonging by Nancy Thayer
Between the Lives by Jessica Shirvington
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
Blind Faith by N.R. Walker (1st book in Blind Faith series)
Blindspot by Jane Kamensky
Bluesman by Andre Dubus III
Born to Darkness by Suzanne Brockmann (1st book in Born to Darkness)
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Broken Irish by Edward J. Delaney
Edge of Sight by Roxanne St. Claire (1st book in The Guardian Angelinos series)
Firmin - Adventures Of A Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage
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