Books about the Northeast United States
connecticut
Fiction
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
maine
Read all our posts on Maine here
Fiction
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - Read our book review here
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
The Works of Anne Bradstreet by Anne Bradstreet
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
new hampshire
Fiction
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Our Town a play by Thornton Wilder
Poetry
The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
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