Reading the States: Massachusetts

State: MASSACHUSETTS

Fiction:

- Mystic River* by Dennis Lehane

- Little Women* by Louisa May Alcott
- The Bostonians by Henry James
- The Scarlet Letter* by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
- The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
- The Namesake* by Jhumpa Lahiri
- On Beauty* by Zadie Smith
- The Penderwicks* by Jeanne Birdsall
- The Bell Jar* by Sylvia Plath
- Run* by Ann Patchett
- The Heretic's Daughter* by Kathleen Kent
- The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
- Ethan Frome* by Edith Wharton
- The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
- Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

- Faith by Jennifer Haigh
- The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

Nonfiction:

- Walden* by Henry David Thoreau
- The Perfect Storm* by Sebastian Junger

- Land's End* by Michael Cunningham

- Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

- A Death in Belmont* by Sebastian Junger

- Running with Scissors* by Augusten Burroughs

- The Wordy Shipmates* by Sarah Vowell
- Hometown by Tracy Kidder

- Upstream by Mary Oliver

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:

- Henry David Thoreau
- Dennis Lehane

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Louisa May Alcott
- John Updike
- Emily Dickinson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Jane Yolen
- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
- Erin Morgenstern
- Tom Perrotta
- John F. Kennedy
- e.e. cummings
- Alice Hoffman

Great Bookstores:
BookEnds
Booklover’s Gourmet
Odyssey Bookshop
Jabberwocky Bookshop
Nantucket Bookworks
Commonwealth Books

Literary Places to Visit:
The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 

*Books I've Read

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