Books Set in Boston

Hawthorne's Puritan streets, Henry James's Beacon Hill, the Freedom Trail of countless historical novels — Boston's literary footprint runs deep.

10 novels mapped, with every real-world location, the history of each place, and what's there today.

All 10 maps set in Boston

• A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane locations map
• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh locations map
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri locations map
• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover locations map
• Mystic River by Dennis Lehane locations map
• Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng locations map
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood locations map
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne locations map
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood locations map
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin locations map

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