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Thursday, December 21, 2023

1,001 Novels: Chapter One Complete- Pointed Firs, Granite Coves and Revolution (New England)

 1,001 Novels: Pointed Firs, Granite Coves and Revolution:

New England:  
1. Massachusetts (30)
2. Maine (23)
3. New Hampshire(13)
4. Connecticut(9)
5. Rhode Island (9)
6. Vermont(7)

1.Moby Dick by Herman Melville (C)
2.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (C)
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn (C)
4.  The Ice Storm by Rick Moody (C)
5. Affliction by Russell Banks (C)
6. Tinkers  by Paul Harding (C)
7. The Wedding by Dorothy West (C)(B)
8. The Lottery and Other Stories  by Shirley Jackson (C)(A)
9.  On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (COA)(A)(I)
10. The Beans of Egypt,  Maine  by Carolyn Chute (LF)(WC)
 
11. Revolutionary Road  by Richard Yates (LF)
12. The Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (LF) (NA)
13. The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat (LF)(I)
14. The Stepford Wives  by Ira Levin (C)
15. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (LF)(WC)
16. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott(C)
17.  Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz (lf
18. Empire Falls  by Richard Russo
19. Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan 
20. Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette

21. Unlikely Animals  by Annie Hartnett
22. Edinburgh  by Alexander Chee
23. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
24. October Light  by John Gardner
25.Promised Land by Robert Parker(DF)
26.The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
27. We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich
28. The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
29.Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor and Really Bad Weather 
by Jincy Willett 
30.Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn  by Paul Watkins (COA)

31. We Love You Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
32.  Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
33. A Prayer for Owen Meany  by John Irving
34.White Ivy by Susie Yang
35. A Day No Pigs Would Die   by Robert Newton Peck 
36.Unraveling by Elizabeth Graver
37. Masters of Illusion: A Novel of the Connecticut Circus Fire by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith. 
38. Leaving Pico by Frank X. Gaspar (COA)
39.The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman
40. Evenings by Susan Minot
41. A Piece of the World ( by Christine Baker Kline
42.  Baby Love by Joyce Maynard
43..  Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
44.  Carrie  by Stephen King
45.  A Separate Peace by John Knowles
46. Born Slippy  by Tom Lutz 
47.  How Are You Going to Save Yourself? (2018) by JM Holmes
48. Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
49.  Chenoo  by Joseph Bruchac
50.  Lake People  by Abi Maxwell

51.  The Lowering Days  by Gregory Brown
52.. The Northern Reach by W.S. Winslow
53.Union Dues by John Sayles
54. She's Come Undone  by Wally Lamb
55.  Outside Providence by Peter Farrelly (COA)
56. Songs in Ordinary Times by Mary McGary Morris
57. Live Free Or Die  by Ernest Hebert
58. Lungfish  by Megan Gilliss
59.Faith by Jennifer Haigh
60.April Morning by Howard Fast
61.An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
62. Caucasia by Danny Senza
63.Vida by Marge Piercy
64.Shine On, Bright & Dangerous Object  by Laurie Colwin
65.Fortune's Rock by Anita Shreve 
66.Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
67.Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea (COA)
68.The Wishing Hill by Holly Robinson
69.Father of the Rain by Lily King
70. The Memory of Running by Ron McClarty
71.The Invaders  by Karolina Waclawiak
72.  Talent  by Juliet Lapidos
73. Midwives  by Chris Bohjalian
74. Cost  by Roxana Robinson
75.  Winter People  by Jennifer McMahon
76. The Prayer of the Bone by Paul Bryers
77.The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (COA)
78.The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
79.Don't' Ask me Where I'm From by Jennifer de Leon (COA)(L)
80. Meeting Rozzy Halfway by Caroline Leavitt
81. Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
82.  Before and After by Rosellen Brown
83.The Giant's House by Elizabeth McKracken
84. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffmann
85. Murder at Crossways by Alyssa Maxwell (DF)
86. The Edge of Winter  by Luanne Rice
87.   Oslo, Maine by Marcia Butler
88.   Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
89. Project x by Jim Shepard
90.  The Poachers Son by Paul Doiron (DF)
91.  Boar Island by Nevada Barr (DF)


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