The following is a list of works about Boston, Massachusetts.

Nonfiction

General

• Beagle, Jonathan M.; Penn, Elan (2006). Boston: A Pictorial Celebration. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-1977-6.
• Bluestone, Barry; Stevenson, Mary Huff (2002). The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-1-61044-072-1.
• Bolino, August C. (2012). Men of Massachusetts: Bay State Contributors to American Society. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4759-3376-5.
• Brown, Robin; The Boston Globe (2009). Boston's Secret Spaces: 50 Hidden Corners In and Around the Hub (1 ed.). Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-5062-7.
• Christopher, Paul J. (2006). 50 Plus One Greatest Cities in the World You Should Visit. Encouragement Press, LLC. ISBN 978-1-933766-01-0.
• Hantover, Jeffrey; King, Gilbert (2008). City in Time: Boston. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-3300-0.
• Kennedy, Lawrence W. (1994). Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-0-87023-923-6.
• Krieger, Alex; Cobb, David; Turner, Amy, eds. (2001). Mapping Boston. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-61173-2.
• O'Connell, James C. (2013). The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262018753.
• O'Connor, Thomas H. (2000). Boston: A to Z. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00310-1.
• Price, Michael; Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (2000). Boston's immigrants, 1840–1925. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-0921-4.
• Seasholes, Nancy S. (2003). Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19494-5.
• Shand-Tucci, Douglass (1999). Built in Boston: City & Suburb, 1800–2000 (2 ed.). University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-201-1.
• Vrabel, Jim; Bostonian Society (2004). When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-1-55553-620-6.
• Whitehill, Walter Muir; Kennedy, Lawrence W. (2000). Boston: A Topographical History (3 ed.). Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00268-5.

Bibliographies

• Henry Stevens (1866). "Boston". Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum. London: C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press.
• Joseph Sabin, ed. (1869). "Boston". Bibliotheca Americana. Vol. 2. New York. OCLC 13972268.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Frederic Beecher Perkins (1876), "Boston", Check List for American Local History: Reprinted with Additions from the Bulletins of the Boston Public Library, Rockwell & Churchill, pp. 12–33, hdl:2027/uc1.b4524371
• "Index of Articles upon American Local History, in Historical Collections in the Boston Public Library: Boston", Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, vol. 5, September 1883, pp. 437–440, hdl:2027/njp.32101065267914
• Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Boston", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, vol. 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351

Directories

• Boston Directory

Guides

• "Boston", Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of American Cities, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876
• "Boston", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, pp. 253–274, OCLC 02338437
• "Boston". Automobile Blue Book. New York: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1917.
• Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Boston: the Hub of the Universe", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Cambridge: Riverside Press
• Donlyn Lyndon (1982), The City Observed, Boston: a Guide to the Architecture of the Hub, New York: Vintage Books, OL 23256413M
• John Harris (1989), Boston Globe Historic Walks in Old Boston, Chester: Globe Pequot Press, OL 2213403M
• Boston, New York: Fodor's, 1996, OL 24710817M
• "New England: Massachusetts: Boston", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M
• Boston (2nd ed.), Lonely Planet, 2003, OL 24751454M
• Morris, Jerry (2005). The Boston Globe Guide to Boston. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-3430-6.
• Southworth, Michael; Southworth, Susan (2008). AIA Guide to Boston, 3rd Edition: Contemporary Landmarks, Urban Design, Parks, Historic Buildings and Neighborhoods (3 ed.). Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-4337-7.
• Wechter, Eric B.; et al. (2009). Fodor's Boston 2009. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-0699-1.
• Vorhees, Mara (2009). Lonely Planet Boston City Guide (4 ed.). Lonely Planet. ISBN 978-1-74179-178-5.
• Hull, Sarah (2011). The Rough Guide to Boston (6 ed.). Penguin. ISBN 978-1-4053-8247-2.

History by date of publication

1700s

• Names of the Streets, Lanes & Alleys within the Town of Boston, Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green, 1708, OCLC 511023684
• Thomas Pemberton (1794), Topographical and Historical Description of Boston

1800s-1840s

• Abraham Rees (1819), "Boston", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
• Caleb H. Snow (1828). History of Boston. Boston: Abel Bowen.
• David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Boston". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
• "Boston", American Advertising Directory, for Manufacturers and Dealers in American Goods, New York: Jocelyn, Darling & Co., 1831, OCLC 1018684

1850s-1890s

• Quincy, Josiah (1852). A Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston During Two Centuries from September 17, 1630, to September 17, 1830. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown. OL 7063863M.
• J. Willoughby Rosse (1858). "Boston". Index of Dates ... Facts in the Chronology and History of the World. London: H.G. Bohn. hdl:2027/uva.x030807786 – via Hathi Trust.
• King, Moses (1878). King's hand-book of Boston. Cambridge, Mass.: M. King.
• Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1868). "Boston". North American Review. 106 (218): 1–25. hdl:2027/chi.25854397. JSTOR 25108129.
• Justin Winsor, ed. (1880–1881), Memorial History of Boston, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, OCLC 4953409
  • v.1: Early and Colonial Periods
  • v.2: Provincial Period
  • v.3: Revolutionary Period. The Last Hundred Years, Pt.1
  • v.4: Last Hundred Years, Pt.2. Special topics
• Edward H. Savage (1884), Boston Events, Boston: Tolman & White, printers, OL 7112253M
• Bacon, Edwin M., and Edward, George, "Ellis Bacon's Dictionary of Boston", Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886.
• South End House (1898), Robert A. Woods (ed.), The City Wilderness: a Settlement Study, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 849952

1900s-1940s

• "Boston". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Frederick Harold Fay (1901), Population and finances of Boston, Boston: Municipal Print. Office, OCLC 6055315, OL 6912929M
• Henry James (1906). "Boston". North American Review. 182 (592): 333–355. hdl:2027/chi.16251213. JSTOR 25105534.
• "Selectmen Minutes 1818–1822", Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, City of Boston, 1909
• A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc., in the City of Boston, City of Boston, 1910, OL 14037282M
• Robert A. Woods (1910). "Boston". In William Dwight Porter Bliss and Rudolph Michael Binder (ed.). New Encyclopedia of Social Reform. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 124–126.
• Edward Hungerford (1913), "Our Ancient Hub", Personality of American Cities, New York: McBride, Nast & Company
• Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin and Albert Bushnell Hart, ed. (1914). "Boston". Cyclopedia of American Government. Vol. 1. D. Appleton and Company.
• Hartnell, Edward Mussey; McGlenen, Edward Webster & Skelton, Edward Oliver (1916). Boston and its story, 1630–1915. City of Boston (Mass.) Printing Department.
• Edwin M. Bacon (1916). Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis. Boston: Pilgrim Press. ISBN 9780788428951.
• Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth; Stephen Elliott Kramer (1922). "Boston". Great Cities of the United States. Syracuse, New York: Iroquois Publishing Company.
• Atlas of the City of Boston. G.W. Bromley & Co. 1928 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
• S. Foster Damon (1935). "The Genesis of Boston". The Atlantic. 156.
• Miller, John C. (1936). Sam Adams, Pioneer in Propaganda.
• Atlas of the City of Boston. G.W. Bromley & Co. 1938 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
• Bridenbaugh, Carl (1938). Cities in the Wilderness-The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625–1742.
• Handlin, Oscar (1941). Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation. Statistical analysis of census data.

1950s-1960s

• Bridenbaugh, Carl (1955). Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776.
• Blake, John B (1959). Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630–1822. Harvard University Press.
• Kevin Lynch (1960), "Boston", Image of the City, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, p. 16+, OL 5795447M
• Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce (1964), Report on the existing industrial crisis in the city of Boston, OL 24149173M
• Walter Muir Whitehill (1964), Boston: Portrait of a City, Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, OL 5912910M
• Henretta, J.A. (1965) "Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston", The William and Mary Quarterly 22(1): 75-92.
• Rutman, Darrett B. (1965). Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630–1649. U of North Carolina Press.
• Martin Green (1966). Problem of Boston. W.W. Norton & Company. OCLC 1016725.
• Ward, D. (1966) "The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Boston's Central Business District", Economic Geography 42 (2): 152-171.
• George F. Weston (1967), Boston ways: high, by, and folk, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 16413538M
• Waters, John J. (1968). The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts.
• Whitehill, Walter Muir (1968). Boston: A Topographical History (2nd ed.). Harvard University Press. On geography and neighborhoods.
• Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett, ed. (1969), Nineteenth-Century Cities, Yale Studies of the City, Yale University Press, OL 5440390M (includes essays about Boston)

1970s

• Warden, Gerard B. (1970). Boston, 1689–1776. The standard history for the period.
• Carl Seaburg (1971), Boston Observed, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 4769638M
• Boston Redevelopment Authority (1972), City of Boston: current problems and issues, OL 24621988M
• Darrett B. Rutman (1973), "Boston: 'A Citty upon a Hill'", in Alexander B. Callow (ed.), American Urban History (2nd ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, OL 5307653M
• Stephan Thernstrom (1973), The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970, Harvard Studies in Urban History, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0674644953
• McCaughey, Robert A. (1974). Josiah Quincy 1772–1864: The Last Federalist. Harvard University Press.
• Jones, Howard Mumford; Jones, Bessie Zaban (1975). The Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology 1630–1975. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-47282-1.\
• Russell, Francis (1975). A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike.
• Conzen, Michael P. & Lewis, George King, eds. (1976). Boston: A Geographical Portrait.
• Trout, Charles H. (1977). Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal.
• Warner, Sam Bass (1978). Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900 (2nd ed.).
• Douglass Shand-Tucci (1978), Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800–1950, New York Graphic Society, OL 24751516M
• Eisinger, Peter K. (1978). "Ethnic political transition in Boston, 1884–1933: Some lessons for contemporary cities". Political Science Quarterly. 93 (2): 217–239. doi:10.2307/2148607. JSTOR 2148607.

1980s

• Jane Holtz Kay (1980), Lost Boston, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 978-0395276099
• Allan Pred (1980), "Boston's City-System Interdependencies", Urban Growth and City Systems in the United States, 1840–1860, Harvard Studies in Urban History, Harvard University Press, pp. 65–83, ISBN 9780674930919
• Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Boston", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
• Holli, Melvin G. & Jones, Peter d'A., eds. (1981). Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820–1980. Greenwood Press. Short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. See index at pp. 406–411 for list.
• Peter Vanderwarker (1982), Boston Then and Now: 59 Boston sites photographed in the past and present, New York: Dover Publications, OL 4271212M
• Vanderwarker, Peter (1982). Boston Then and Now. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-24312-2.
• Tager, Jack, and John W. Ifkovic, eds. Massachusetts in the Gilded Age: Selected Essays (1983), extensive coverage of Boston.
• Formisano, Ronald P. & Burns, Constance K., eds. (1984). Boston, 1700–1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics. Greenwood Press.
• "City with a Ticking Time Bomb", Financial Times, London, March 6, 1984
• Gamm, Gerald H. (1989). The making of the New Deal Democrats: Voting behavior and realignment in Boston, 1920–1940. University of Chicago Press.

1990s

• Beatty, Jack (1992). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958.
• Lawrence W. Kennedy (1992), Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, OL 1562221M
• O'Toole, James M. (1992). Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859–1944.
• Robert Campbell; Peter Vanderwarker (1992), Cityscapes of Boston: an American City Through Time, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., OL 1562103M
• George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Boston", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
• Fischer, David Hackett (1994). Paul Revere's Ride. Oxford University Press.
• Susan Wilson (1994), Boston Sites & Insights, Boston: Beacon Press, OL 1421334M
• Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (1995). Boston: A Century of Progress. Dover, N.H: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-738538761. OL 1028399M.
• O'Connor, Thomas H. (1995). The Boston Irish: A Political History.
• Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (1997). The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing.
• Lawrence W. Kennedy (1998). "Boston, Massachusetts". Encyclopedia of Urban America. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780874368468 – via Credo Reference. (subscription required)

2000s

• Deutsch, Sarah. (2000). Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940. Oxford University Press.
• Thomas H. O'Connor, Boston, A to Z (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000)
• Walter Muir Whitehill (2000), Boston: a Topographical History (3rd ed.), Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, OL 58903M
• Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell & Price, Michael (2000). Boston's immigrants, 1840–1925. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing.
• Vale, Lawrence J. (2000). From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Press.
• Tager, Jack. Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Northeastern University Press, 2001)
• Kane, Paula M. (2001). Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900–1920.
• Tager, Jack. (2001) Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Upne, 2001).
• Matos Rodrííguez, Féélix V. (2001) "'The Browncoats are Coming': Latino Public History in Boston." Public Historian 23.4 (2001): 15-28.
• Bjarkman, Peter C. (2002) Boston Celtics Encyclopedia (Sports Publishing LLC, 2002).
• Charles C. Euchner, ed. (2003), Governing Greater Boston, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, ISBN 978-0-9718427-1-7
• Edward Glaeser (2003), Reinventing Boston: 1640–2003, Harvard Institute of Economic Research, archived from the original on 2007-09-11
• Nancy S. Seasholes (2003). Gaining Ground: a History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262194945.
• Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (July 2003). "Big Dig, Little Dig, Hidden Worlds: Boston". Common-Place. American Antiquarian Society. 3 (4).
• Rawson, Michael. (2004) "The nature of water: reform and the antebellum crusade for municipal water in Boston." Environmental history 9.3 (2004): 411-435.
• Dolin, Eric Jay. (2004) Political waters: the long, dirty, contentious, incredibly expensive but eventually triumphant history of Boston Harbor, a unique environmental success story (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
• Minardi, Margot. (2004) "The Boston inoculation controversy of 1721-1722: an incident in the history of race." William and Mary Quarterly 61.1 (2004): 47-76. online
• David Levinson, ed. (2004). "Boston". Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-2751-8.
• Jim Vrabel (2004), When in Boston: a Time Line & Almanac, Boston: Northeastern University Press, ISBN 978-1555536213
• Carr, Jacqueline Barbara. (2005) After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775-1800. Upne, 2005.
• David Marley (2005), "Boston", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 978-1576070277
• Kaufman, Polly Welts, et al. (2006) Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Seven Self-guided Walking Tours Through Four Centuries of Boston Women's History (Applewood Books, 2006).
• Nathan, Gavin. (2006) Historic Taverns of Boston: 370 Years of Tavern History in One Definitive Guide (iUniverse, 2006).
• Kay, Jane Holtz. (2006) Lost Boston (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2006), destroed buildings.
• Puleo, Stephen. (2007) The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day (Beacon Press, 2007).
• Gelber, Scott. (2008) "'The crux and the magic': The Political History of Boston Magnet Schools, 1968–1989." Equity & Excellence in Education 41.4 (2008): 453-466.
• Simons, D. Brenton (2008). Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views. University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-58465-740-8.
• Connolly, James J (2009). The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: urban political culture in Boston, 1900–1925.
• John Hanson Mitchell (2009). Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7149-6.
• Wolff, Katherine. (2009) Culture club: The curious history of the Boston Athenaeum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).

2010-present

• Carp, Benjamin L (2010). Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America.
• York, Neil L. (2010) The Boston Massacre: A History with Documents (Routledge, 2010).
• Johnson, Arthur M., and Barry E. Supple. (2013) Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads (Harvard University Press, 2013).
• Whitehill, Walter Muir. (2013) Boston Public Library (Harvard University Press, 2013).
• Holmes, Pauline. (2013) A Tercentenary History of the Boston Public Latin School, 1635–1935 (Harvard University Press, 2013).
• American Cities Project (2013). "Boston". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, D.C.: Pew Charitable Trusts.
• Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (May 1, 2014). Lost Boston. Pavilion Press. ISBN 978-1-909815049.
• Rawson, Michael J. (2014). Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674416833.
• Johnson, Marilynn S. (2015). The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area since the 1960s. University of Massachusetts Press.
• Bagley, Joseph M. (2016) A history of Boston in 50 artifacts (University Press of New England, 2016).
• "Boston's income divide largest in US", Boston Globe, January 15, 2016[1]
• "Better use of data could make cities more efficient—and more democratic", The Economist, March 26, 2016
• Levesque, George A. (2018) Black Boston: African American life and culture in urban America, 1750–1860 (Routledge, 2018).
• Peterson, Mark (2019). The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865. Princeton University Press.

Fiction