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Booklist from the Literary Map of Maine
This is a list of both adult and children's books, searchable from the right sidebar. Booklist as Word document. [Word, 70 KB]
Books with Maine
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| Author's Name (Last, First) |
Birth - Death |
Title |
Location |
| Beam, Lura |
1887-1978 |
A Maine Hamlet
|
Marshfield |
| Bennett, Dean |
- |
The Late Loon
|
Lake in northern Maine near the Allagash |
| Beston, Henry |
1888-1968 |
Northern Farm: A Chronicle of Maine
|
Nobleboro |
| Briggs, Kelly Paul |
1958- |
Lighthouse Lullaby
|
Boon Island off Cape Neddick |
| Brown, Margaret Wise |
1910-1952 |
The Little Island
|
Hurricane Sound off Vinalhaven |
| Cariani, John |
1969- |
Almost Maine, a play
|
Presque Isle |
| Carroll, Gladys Hasty |
1904-1999 |
As the Earth Turns
|
Berwick |
| Carson, Rachel |
1907-1964 |
Sense of Wonder
|
Southport Island |
| Chase, Mary Ellen |
1887-1973 |
Windswept
|
Schoodic Point (Windswept is a fictitious setting) |
| Chute, Carolyn |
1947- |
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
|
North Parsonsfield |
| Coatsworth, Elizabeth |
1893-1986 |
The Enchanted: an Incredible Tale
|
Upper Enchanted |
| Coffin, Robert P.T. |
1892-1955 |
Kennebec: Cradle of Americans
|
Bingham |
| Cooney, Barbara |
1917-2000 |
Miss Rumphius
|
Damariscotta and South Bristol |
| Corson, Trevor |
1969- |
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
|
Gulf of Maine & Little Cranberry Island |
| Dietz, Lew |
1907-1997 |
Andre
|
Rockport Harbor Park |
| Falwell, Cathryn |
1952- |
Turtle Splash: Countdown at the Pond
|
Frog Song Pond in Gorham |
| Fendler, Donn as told to Joseph B. Egan |
1927- |
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
|
Mt. Katahdin |
| Field, Rachel |
1894-1942 |
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
|
Great Cranberry Island off Mount Desert |
| Gerritsen, Tess |
1953- |
The Bone Garden
|
Islesboro |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth |
1969- |
Stern Men
|
Island off Vinalhaven |
| Gould, John |
1908-2003 |
Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads, & Wazzats
|
Greenville |
| Graves, Sarah |
- |
The Book of Old Houses
|
Eastport |
| Greenlaw, Linda |
1962- |
Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island
|
Isle Au Haut |
| Hall, Lawrence Sargent |
1915-1993 |
The Ledge
|
Casco Bay - Brown Cow Island (near Jewell Island) |
| Hamlin, Helen |
1917-2004 |
Nine Mile Bridge: Three Years in the Maine Woods
|
Nine Mile Bridge on the St. John River |
| Hartley, Marsden |
1877-1943 |
Androscoggin, from the poem “Lewiston is a Pleasant Place”
|
Androscoggin River |
| Heinrich, Bernd |
1940- |
In A Patch of Fireweed
|
Near the town of Weld, Maine |
| Ipcar, Dahlov |
1917- |
Lobsterman
|
Georgetown |
| Irving, John |
1942- |
The Cider House Rules
|
Hinckley (Fictional town along the Kennebec in northern Kennebec County) |
| Jewett, Sarah Orne |
1849-1909 |
Country of the Pointed Firs
|
The fictional setting, Dunnet Landing is largely based on Martinsville, a village |
| Johnson, Willis |
1938- |
The Girl Who Would be Russian and Other Stories
|
Richmond |
| Kiernan, Frances |
1944- |
The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
|
Northeast Harbor |
| King, Stephen |
1947- |
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
|
Sanford |
| Knowles, Ardeana Hamlin |
- |
Pink Chimneys: A Novel of Nineteenth Century Maine
|
Bangor
|
| Longfellow, Henry W. |
1807-1882 |
The Children's Own Longfellow
|
Forested area of northern Maine and the Longfellow House in Portland |
| Mackenzie, Gertrude with Ruth Goode |
- |
My Love Affair with the State of Maine
|
Goose Rocks Beach, Kennebunkport
Kennebunkport |
| Martin, Jacqueline Briggs |
1945- |
The Water Gift and Pig of the Pig
|
Waldo County |
| Mason, Cherie |
- |
Wild Fox: a True Story
|
Sunset/Deer Isle |
| McCloskey, Robert |
1914-2003 |
Time of Wonder
|
Scott’s Island on Penobscot Bay (Blue Hill) |
| McMillan, Bruce |
1947- |
A Beach for the Birds
|
Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Rachel Carson National
Wildlife Refuge in Wells |
| McNair, Wesley |
1941- |
A Place Called Maine
|
Temple (near Farmington) |
| Millay, Edna St. Vincent |
1892-1950) |
Renascence, and Other Poems
|
Mt. Battie |
| Moore, Ruth |
1903-1989 |
The Weir
|
Gott’s Island |
| Ogilvie, Elisabeth |
1917-2006 |
High Tide at Noon
|
Criehaven Island (part of Ragged Is) off Matinicus Island, 25 m. south of Rockland |
| Pelletier, Cathie |
1953- |
The Funeral Makers
|
Allagash (fictional town of Mattagash) |
| Phippen, Sandy |
1942- |
Kitchen Boy
|
Hancock (fictional town of Taunton
|
| Pochocki, Ethel |
1925- |
A Penny for a Hundred
|
Aroostook County/Houlton |
| Price, Trudy Chambers |
- |
The Cows Are Out! Two decades on a Maine Dairy Farm
|
Knox
|
| Pullen, John |
1913-2003 |
The Twentieth Maine
|
Brewer
|
| Reid, Van |
- |
Cordelia Underwood or The Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League
|
Ellsworth |
| Rich, Louise Dickinson |
1903-1991 |
We Took to the Woods
|
South Arm |
| Robbins, Rhea Cote |
1953- |
Wednesday’s Child
|
Waterville/The Pine Grove Cemetery
|
| Roberts, Kenneth |
1885-1957 |
Arundel
|
Vassalboro (or along the Arnold Trail from York, ME to Quebec) |
| Russo, Richard |
1949- |
Empire Falls
|
Waterville |
| Schmidt, Gary |
1957- |
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
|
Phippsburg and Malaga Island off Phippsburg
|
| Shulman, Alix Kates |
1932- |
Drinking the Rain
|
Long Island in Casco Bay |
| Speare, Elizabeth George |
1908-1994 |
The Sign of the Beaver
|
Around the Brownville Area |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
1811-1896 |
The Pearl of Orr’s Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine
|
Orr’s Island |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
1956- |
Olive Kitteridge
|
Eastport
|
| Thoreau, Henry David |
1817-1862 |
The Maine Woods
Location:
|
Baxter State Park
|
| Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher |
1938- |
A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
|
Hallowell |
| Wait, Lea |
1946- |
Finest Kind
|
Wiscasset |
| White, E. B. |
1899-1985 |
Charlotte's Web
|
North Brooklin |
| White, E. B. |
1899-1985 |
One Man's Meat
|
Belgrade Lakes, Great Pond (E.B White’s camp) |
| Wiggin, Kate Douglas |
1856-1923 |
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
|
Hollis |
| Williams, Ben Ames |
1889-1953 |
Come Spring
|
Union – quotation is Seven-Tree Pond in Union |
| Wood, Monica |
- |
Any Bitter Thing
|
Greater Portland, Rumford Area |
| Wormser, Baron |
l948- |
The Road Washes Out In Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid
|
Mercer (Somerset County) |
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