A Book Set in New England

A selection of books that meet the criteria for the UBN 2026 category.

Updated January 12, 2026
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Mystic river
Lehane, Dennis.
Paper Book
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later,...
On beauty : a novel
Smith, Zadie.
Paper Book
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was....
The widows of Eastwick
Updike, John.
Paper Book
A master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series returns with a sequel to The Witches of Eastwick about the three much-loved divorcées--three decades later.  More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike's...

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