A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells."The Magic Bonbons" by Lyman Frank Baum, his American Fairy Tales, 1901.Make Way for Ducklings, iconic children's picture book set in Boston Public Garden.Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan.Looking Backward, utopian novel written in 1887 and set in Boston in 2000.Little House by Boston Bay by Melissa Wiley.Marquand tragicomic satire of the life of an upper-class Bostonian from the mid-19th century to the Great Depression winner of the Pulitzer Prize Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving (2009), partly set in the North End.The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor O'Connor's 1956 account of big-city politics, inspired by the career of longtime Boston Mayor James Michael Curley.Karma and Other Stories, short stories by Rishi Reddi.Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer's novel about rivalry William Kane is from Boston.Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes takes place in Boston in the early 1770s.Innocence by David Hosp Boston is the main setting of this thriller/courtroom novel.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, set in a partly fictionalized Boston.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood post-nuclear Cambridge and Boston are the setting of this dystopian novel.The Given Day, novel by Dennis Lehane, takes place in post-World War I Boston.Future Boston a shared universe novel by the Cambridge Science Fiction Writers Workshop.Firmin by Sam Savage, a magical-realist account of the destruction of Scollay Square.The blast also burned the USS Constitution to the waterline. Fallout by Harry Turtledove, an alternate history novel in the Hot War series, where the Korean War escalates into World War III, the city was destroyed by a Soviet atomic bomb in May 1952.Takes place in an urban fantasy version of Boston that features some of the real life historic sites and culture. Easter Rising by Michael Patrick MacDonald.Fields takes place in Boston and Cambridge, by Matthew Pearl (2003) The Dante Club, a murder mystery featuring Harvard personalities Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as publisher James T.The Dandy Vigilante by Kevin Daley, a hard-boiled mystery about a Boston news reporter, crime, and city hall corruption.
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