Reading Guides
Reading guides are created by volunteers from the library community throughout the Commonwealth. This year's 2007 MassBook Award titles are marked with an asterisk (*).
Fiction
The Bostons, Carolyn Cooke
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Lisa Borders
The Diagnosis, Alan Lightman
Eva Moves the Furniture, Margot Livesey
* The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud
The Family Orchard, Nomi Eve
Flashback, Gary Braver
Hedwig and Berti, Frieda Arkin
* How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, Mameve Medwed
Inheritance, Lan Samantha Chang
* Jump at the Sun, Kim McLarin
Love in the Asylum, Lisa Carey
A Kiss from Maddalena , Christopher Castellani
MotherKind , Jayne Anne Phillips
My Life in Heavy Metal, Steve Almond
Mystic River, Dennis Lehane
Operation Monsoon , Shona Ramaya
Project X, Jim Shepard
Properties of Light, Rebecca Goldstein
Reunion , Alan Lightman
River King, Alice Hoffman
Sea Room, Norman G. Gautreau
Season of Open Water, Dawn Clifton Tripp
Yellow, Don Lee
Nonfiction
The Big House, George Howe Colt
Black Livingstone, Pagan Kennedy
Choosing Naia, Mitchell Zuckoff
Constant Turmoil, Mary Blewett
* Failed States, Noam Chomsky
Fire & Roses , Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Gracefully Insane, Alex Beam
* House of War, James Carroll
The Imprisoned Guest, Elisabeth Gitter
In the Heart of the Sea , Nathaniel Philbrick
* Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
Mistress Bradstreet: the Untold Life of America's First Poet, Charlotte Gordon
Outwitting History, Aaron Lansky
Patriots: the Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides , Christian G. Appy
Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited American Romanticism, Megan Marshall
Red Sox Century, Glenn Stout and Richard Johnson
Reflections in Bullough's Pond, Diana Muir
Revere Beach Elegy, Roland Merullo
Sea of Glory, Nathaniel Philbrick
Sense of the Mysterious, Alan Lightman
Spirit and Flesh, James M. Ault, Jr.
Uphill Walkers, Madeleine Blais
Washington's Crossing, David Hackett Fischer
Poetry
Among the Musk Ox People, Mary Ruefle
* Averno, Louise Gluck
Bewitched Playground, David Rivard
Blind Huber, Nick Flynn
Breathing Room, Peter Davison
Collected Poems, Stanley Kunitz
Departure, Rosanna Warren
Far Side of the Earth, Tom Sleigh
* God's Silence, Franz Wright
Goodbye to the Orchard, Steven Cramer
Habitat, Brendan Galvin
The Leaf and the Cloud , Mary Oliver
A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen , Martín Espada
Memoir of the Hawk, James Tate
Middle Earth , Henri Cole
Multitudes, Afaa Michael Weaver
Natural History, Dan Chiasson
Never, Jorie Graham
Oubliette, Peter Richards
Poems Seven, Alan Dugan
* The Republic of Poetry, Martin Espada
The Seven Ages, Louise Glück
Trouble in Mind, Lucie Brock-Broido
The Unsubscriber, Bill Knott
Zeppo's First Wife, Gail Mazur
Children's/Young Adult Literature
Beneath the Streets of Boston, Joe McKendry
Blow Out the Moon, Libby Koponen
* Clementine, Sara Pennypacker
* Counting on Grace, Elizabeth Winthrop
The Disappearing Island, Corinne Demas
Don't Say Ain't, Irene Smalls
Dory Story, Jerry Palotta
Fine Feathered Friends, Jane Yolen
Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, D. B. Johnson
Hole in My Life, Jack Gantos
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, Jane Yolen
* Incantation, Alice Hoffman
The Janitor's Boy , Andrew Clements
Learning to Swim, Ann Turner
Little Rat Sets Sail, Monika Bang-Campbell & Molly Bang
Moonpie and Ivy, Barbara O'Connor
Mountain Pose, Nancy Hope Wilson
My Brothers' Flying Machine, Jane Yolen
My Light, Molly Bang
Old African, Julius Lester
Rocks in His Head, Carol Otis Hurst
The Silent Boy, Lois Lowry
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
What Charlie Heard, Mordicai Gerstein
What's in a Name, Ellen Wittlinger
Where the Great Hawk Flies, Liza Ketchum
Zachary's Ball, Matt Tavares