Books about the Northeast United States


connecticut

Fiction


maine

Read all our posts on Maine here

Fiction


maryland

Non-Fiction

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates


massachusetts

Fiction

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood - Read our book review here

March by Geraldine Brooks

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan

Non-Fiction

Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography by Susan Cheever

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry


new hampshire

Fiction

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Our Town a play by Thornton Wilder

Poetry


new jersey

Read all of our posts on New Jersey here

Fiction

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver - our review here


new york

Read all of our posts on New York here

Fiction

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

The Whites by Harry Brandt (Richard Price)

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Improvement by Joan Silber

We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer


washington, D.C.

Fiction

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders