The Late George Apley by John P. 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 Little House by Boston Bay by Melissa Wiley Looking Backward, utopian novel written in 1887 and set in Boston in 2000 Love Story by Erich Segal Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan Make Way for Ducklings, iconic children's picture book set in Boston Public Garden "The Magic Bonbons" by Lyman Frank Baum, his American Fairy Tales, 1901 A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells Murder at Fenway Park by Troy Soos Mystic River by Dennis Lehane The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, set largely in Cambridge and Boston, explores the difficulties of Indian-Americans making their homes in America Oh Boy, Boston by Patricia Reilly Giff; the Polk Street Kids take a trip to Boston On Beauty, novel by Zadie Smith (2005), takes place partly in a fictional town outside Boston; parts of Boston center are visited The Paper Chase, novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr. (1970) The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, in which Michelle Tea charts the turbulent adventures in Boston's teenage goth world Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft; takes place in Boston Professor Romeo by Anne Bernays The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman Rare Objects by Kathleen Tessaro Rent Girl, Michelle Tea's graphic memoir of sex work in Boston, illustrated by Laurenn McCubbin The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells Run by Ann Patchett is set in modern Cambridge and Boston; a novel exploring family and race relations Running Man by Richard Bachman takes place partly in Boston The "Sarah Kelling / Max Bittersohn" mystery series by Charlotte MacLeod The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Shutter Island, novel by Dennis Lehane, takes place on a fictional island on the Boston Harbor Small Vices by Robert B. Parker The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; part of the story occurs in Boston The Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove; has many characters who live in or are from the Boston area The "Spenser" detective novels, by Robert B. Parker The Technologists by Matthew Pearl (2012); alternative history about the founding of MIT Thin Air by Robert B. Parker The Tucker Mysteries, by Ray Daniel (author)*Under Copp's Hill by Katherine Ayres; children's story set in 1908