Made in Massachusetts

A selection of local reads.

Updated April 14, 2026
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McCullough, David G
All souls a family story from Southie
MacDonald, Michael Patrick.
Paper Book
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person's praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details."--Brent Staples, New York Times...
Gone baby gone
Ladd, Alan, 1937-2022; Rissner, Dan, 1940; Bailey, Sean, 1970; Affleck, Ben, 1972-; Stockard, Aaron; Lehane, Dennis; Affleck, Casey, 1975-; Monaghan, Michelle; Freeman, Morgan; Harris, Ed, 1950; Ashton, John, 1948; Ryan, Amy; Madigan, Amy; Welliver, Titus
The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
The stunning graphic novel adaptation * A must-read and collector's item for fans of "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (New York Times).   Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale   In Margaret...
Revere Beach elegy : a memoir of home and beyond
Merullo, Roland
Ebook
In Revere Beach Elegy, Roland Merullo returns to his childhood heaven of Revere, Massachusetts, a place, five miles from Boston, where the affirmation of family -- fifty cousins, grandparents, aunts and uncles that are more like mothers and fathers -- and the tough codes of his gritty working-class...
Sarah's long walk : the free Blacks of Boston and how their struggle for equality changed America
Kendrick, Stephen
Paper Book
The never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America"s public schools One fall day in 1848, on windswept Beacon Hill in Boston, a five-year-old girl named Sarah Roberts walked past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded all...
The scarlet letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece: A searing portrait of sin and redemption in Puritan New England When Hester Prynne, a young Puritan woman in seventeenth-century Boston, becomes pregnant out of wedlock, the unforgiving society in which she lives judges her harshly. Sentenced to...
Summer sisters A novel.
Blume, Judy.
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * "Summer Sisters is a book to return to again and again."--Colleen Hoover "As warm as a summer breeze blowing through your hair, as nostalgic as James Taylor singing 'How...

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