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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Maine characters : a novel
Orenstein, Hannah
Paper Book
Every summer, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster spend a month each with their father, Hank, at his family cabin on a lake in Maine - Lucy in July, Vivian in August. Vivian is a successful sommelier working in NYC's fine dining scene, and Lucy teaches high school English in the nearby town. But these two...
MANSION BEACH
MOORE, MEG MITCHELL
Paper Book
"If you love Elin Hilderbrand and The Great Gatsby, Moore's confection of a novel, set on Block Island, is a satisfying treat."--The New York Times From national bestselling author Meg Mitchell Moore comes a sparkling, escapist summer novel following a young...
Mystic river
Lehane, Dennis.
Paper Book
This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave...
On beauty
Smith, Zadie
Paper Book
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the ...
OTHER MARCH SISTERS
EPSTEIN, LINDA
Paper Book
Giving all the "Little Women" the stories they deserve at last, this imaginative historical novel and companion to the much-loved classic draws Meg, Beth, and Amy March from behind the shadow of Jo - Louisa May Alcott's alter-ego and the "author" of Little Women - as vibrant and...
The Red Garden
Hoffman, Alice.
Paper Book
The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives.      In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred...
The wedding people : a novel
Espach, Alison
Paper Book
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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