The list of 2013 Massachusetts Must-Read titles has been announced! I’m looking forward to the fun Speed-Dating with Authors event at the Massachusetts Library Association’s Annual Conference on April 24th.
Read the full list of 2013 Must-Reads, including Poetry and Children’s/YA categories, at Massachusetts Center for the Book. Stay up to date with MassBook Award announcements by liking the Massachusetts Center for the Book on Facebook and following Twitter (@massbook).
Fiction
The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro (Algonquin) Read my review
Cascade by Maryanne O’Hara (Viking)
Defending Jacob by William Landay (Delacorte) Read my review of the audio
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Ecco)
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl (Random House)
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (Tor)
Nonfiction
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt (Knopf)
Brothers by George Howe Colt (Scribner)
The Choke Artist by David Yoo (Grand Central)
Clover Adams, A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
In Pursuit of Giants by Matt Rigney (Viking)
To Free a Family by Sydney Nathans (Harvard UP)
Nice list 🙂 I’ve read The Art Forger, Cascade and The Song of Achilles. I enjoyed all of them but Achilles knocked my socks off!
Yes, I need to read Song and Cascade for sure!
Cascade is sooooooooooooo good — it really is a love letter to Massachusetts in many ways! I also enjoyed the Art Forger — very fun. I’m DYING to read The Song of Achilles — everyone has swooned over it.
I read # 2 and 3 from the fiction list and liked them.
I’ve got Cascade to read and want to read the Miller. It’s a good list. Hope you’ll write about the author event 🙂
I’m kind of embarrassed not to have read those two yet!
WOW – I’ve read two! cool. 🙂 Have fun at the big event.
I’ve only read Achilles but I’m curious about the rest. I hope you enjoy yourself at the speed-dating event.
What a great list!
It may be odd for those in Mass (on the flip side), to understand, but Atlantic Canadians have felt a strong affinity for “the Boston States” for generations. There are many, many family ties between Nova Scotia & Boston, so I’m happy to find this award list.
I’ve been reading mostly New York City novels lately. I wish more literary fiction was set in Boston. Maybe I need to look harder for it.