The "Bloody Jack" historical-fiction series, by L. A. Meyer, first mentioned in The Curse of the Blue Tattoo, when Jacky is put off in Boston to attend Lawson Peabody's School for Young Girls
The Chippendales by Robert Grant, novel, old Boston society confronted by the emerging new in the 1880s
Combat Boy by James Vance Elliott, a novel featuring both the Boston crime world of the 70s and the Massachusetts high-tech world of the 90s
Crisis by Robin Cook, novel, early 21st century; begins with a tale of two doctors, one practicing in NYC and one in Boston, with the former's trial for malpractice taking place in Boston; most of the action occurs in Boston
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
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
The Virgin Knows by Christine Palamidessi Moore; sibling rivalry and art theft (from the basements of Harvard's Fogg); set in Boston's Italian North End
You Can't Take a Balloon into the Museum of Fine Arts by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman; a children's picture book about a girl's lost balloon floating past landmarks in Boston
Zodiac by Neal Stephenson; an eco-thriller focusing on industrial pollution in Boston Harbor
Television
A number of popular television series are set in Boston, four of which were notably created by David E. Kelley, who grew up in suburban Boston.
Chasing Life, about a journalist in Boston who is diagnosed with leukemia
Cheers, by Charles-Burrow-Charles Productions and Paramount Pictures; centered on a Boston bar, which in reality is the Bull & Finch Pub. In the sequel to Cheers, Frasier, Dr. Frasier Crane frequently refers to Boston.
Crossing Jordan, crime drama, follows the lives of Boston Medical Examiner Jordan Cavanaugh and her co-workers
Charly, based on Flowers for Algernon, about a mentally challenged man who receives treatment for his disability
A Civil Action, about several families who attempt to sue a company for dumping toxic waste that gave their children leukemia; filmed all over Boston, ironically not in Woburn, where it takes place, but in Palmer
Coma is set at the fictional Boston Memorial Hospital
Home Before Dark (1958), set in Boston and Cape Cod; adapted from the novel by Eileen Bassing; original negative is lost
House of the Damned, all of the interior shots were done in the house of the director, Sean Weathers, in Brooklyn, New York; however, Weathers wanted a different feel for the exteriors so he and his cinematographer drove to Boston to reshoot the exteriors months later without the actors[citation needed]
Ice Princess, takes place in Worcester, MA around the Greater Boston area, about a physics geek who dreams of becoming a professional ice skater and gets an offer to go to Harvard but turns down that offer
Johnny Tremain, 1957 Disney film based on the novel of the same name
The Last Detail, about two United States Navy policemen who decide to take out a young sailor for one last night on the town (through Boston's Combat Zone) before he goes to jail
Mystic River, Oscar-winning drama about three childhood friends who later reunite after the murder of one of their daughters; set in a fictional area of Boston called "Buckingham Flats"; filmed in East Boston and South Boston
The Paper Chase, about a student struggling through Harvard Law School, based on the 1970 novel; John Houseman won an Oscar for his role as Professor Kingsfield
Stonados, a Sci-Fi Channel television movie about Boston being ravaged by a rain of exploding rocks (starting with Plymouth Rock) from a freak meteorological event
What's the Worst That Could Happen?, about a rich man who catches a thief burglarizing his Boston home and steals the thief's lucky ring, which the thief then tries to get back
With Honors (1994), with Brendan Fraser and Joe Pesci, about a Harvard student who loses the only copy of his thesis and traces it to a basement where it has been found by a homeless man who trades pages of the thesis for food and shelter
X2: X-Men United, X-Men sequel, in which two scenes take place in Boston, the home of Bobby Drake, alias Iceman
Yellow Lights, college drama that takes place at Wellesley College as well as a fictional college set in Newton
An annotated bibliography of fiction set in Boston
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Boston in fiction news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message This articles lists various works of fiction that take place in Boston Massachusetts Contents 1 Video games 2 Literature 3 Television 4 Film 5 Other 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksVideo games EditSee also Video Games set in Boston A number of popular video games are set in Boston with several characters from the city appearing in multiple games The Scout a character in the video game Team Fortress 2 is from Boston and speaks with a Boston accent Ash a character in Ubisoft s Rainbow Six Siege studied at Boston University 1 Another character Delta Force operator Erik Maverick Thorn is from Boston 2 In Tony Hawk s Underground 2 one of the levels is set in Boston Mafia The City of Lost Heaven the City of Lost Heaven bears a slight resemblance to Boston In Rock Band and Rock Band 2 Boston is a featured city that one s fictional band can play gigs in In Assassin s Creed III Boston features as a main city during the course of the game In The Last of Us some of the game is set in post apocalyptic Boston Nathan and Samuel Drake characters from the Uncharted franchise grew up in Boston Fallout 4 is set in Boston as well as surrounding areas such as Concord Quincy and Lexington AaAaAA A Reckless Disregard for Gravity is set in an alternate reality version of Boston Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth takes place in Boston taking after H P Lovecraft s works Literature Edit While the music lasts William M Bulger Alone by Lisa Gardner Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky As I was Crossing Boston Common by Norma Farber Back Bay by William Martin The Big Dig by Linda Barnes Blaze by Richard Bachman The Bloody Jack historical fiction series by L A Meyer first mentioned in The Curse of the Blue Tattoo when Jacky is put off in Boston to attend Lawson Peabody s School for Young Girls Boston Adventure by Jean Stafford A Boston Girl Anita Diamant The Bostonians by Henry James life in aristocratic Boston during the late nineteenth century Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries by Linda Barnes featuring a taxi driving detective in Boston A Case of Need by Michael Crichton A Catch of Consequence by Diana Norman Caucasia by Danzy Senna a coming of age novel of Birdie a biracial girl Cell by Stephen King a traditional zombie story set in present day Boston The Chippendales by Robert Grant novel old Boston society confronted by the emerging new in the 1880s Combat Boy by James Vance Elliott a novel featuring both the Boston crime world of the 70s and the Massachusetts high tech world of the 90s Crisis by Robin Cook novel early 21st century begins with a tale of two doctors one practicing in NYC and one in Boston with the former s trial for malpractice taking place in Boston most of the action occurs in Boston The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Boston is the home of protagonist Robert Langdon The Dandy Vigilante by Kevin Daley a hard boiled mystery about a Boston news reporter crime and city hall corruption 3 The Dante Club a murder mystery featuring Harvard personalities Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes as well as publisher James T Fields takes place in Boston and Cambridge by Matthew Pearl 2003 Dead Heat by Linda Barnes Easter Rising by Michael Patrick MacDonald The Europeans by Henry James Fair Game by Patricia Briggs Takes place in an urban fantasy version of Boston that features some of the real life historic sites and culture Fallout by Harry Turtledove an alternate history novel in the Hot War series where the Korean War escalates into World War III the city was destroyed by a Soviet atomic bomb in May 1952 The blast also burned the USS Constitution to the waterline Find Me by Laura van den Berg Firmin by Sam Savage a magical realist account of the destruction of Scollay Square Flashpoint by Linda Barnes Flynn s World by Gregory Mcdonald Future Boston a shared universe novel by the Cambridge Science Fiction Writers Workshop The Given Day novel by Dennis Lehane takes place in post World War I Boston Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane The Handmaid s Tale by Margaret Atwood post nuclear Cambridge and Boston are the setting of this dystopian novel Home Before Dark by Eileen Bassing Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace set in a partly fictionalized Boston Innocence by David Hosp Boston is the main setting of this thriller courtroom novel Intuition by Allegra Goodman Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes takes place in Boston in the early 1770s Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer s novel about rivalry William Kane is from Boston Karma and Other Stories short stories by Rishi Reddi Last Dance by Lee Grove The Last Hurrah by Edwin O Connor O Connor s 1956 account of big city politics inspired by the career of longtime Boston Mayor James Michael Curley Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving 2009 partly set in the North End 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 Unleavened Bread by Judge Robert Grant set partly in Boston The Vanished Child by Sarah Smith writer set partly in Boston The Virgin Knows by Christine Palamidessi Moore sibling rivalry and art theft from the basements of Harvard s Fogg set in Boston s Italian North End Vital Signs by Robin Cook Boston is the home of protagonist Marissa Blumenthal You Can t Take a Balloon into the Museum of Fine Arts by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman a children s picture book about a girl s lost balloon floating past landmarks in Boston Zodiac by Neal Stephenson an eco thriller focusing on industrial pollution in Boston HarborTelevision EditA number of popular television series are set in Boston four of which were notably created by David E Kelley who grew up in suburban Boston Ally McBeal romantic comedy popular in the late 90s created by David E Kelley of Belmont Massachusetts Banacek detective series starring George Peppard as Thomas Banacek Being Human a werewolf a ghost and a vampire share a house in Boston The Best Years Canadian TV show set at a fictional Boston College Between the Lines short lived TV series based on the movie of the same title Boston Common comedy about attending a fictional Boston college featuring Anthony Clark Boston Legal centered on a Boston law firm created by David E Kelley Boston Public centered on a Boston public school also created by David E Kelley Chasing Life about a journalist in Boston who is diagnosed with leukemia Cheers by Charles Burrow Charles Productions and Paramount Pictures centered on a Boston bar which in reality is the Bull amp Finch Pub In the sequel to Cheers Frasier Dr Frasier Crane frequently refers to Boston Crossing Jordan crime drama follows the lives of Boston Medical Examiner Jordan Cavanaugh and her co workers Dr Quinn Medicine Woman in the episodes Where the Heart is Parts 1 and 2 Dawson s Creek teen drama 1998 2003 in Season 5 the main characters go to college in Boston Falling Skies sci fi drama set in Boston and the surrounding areas Fringe set in Boston and surrounding area Goodnight Beantown sitcom dating to 1983 How High set at Harvard James at 15 later retitled James at 16 Leverage set in Boston The Paper Chase based on the 1970 novel and the 1973 film of the same title Park Street Under Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers a short lived 1974 75 situation comedy featuring Paul Sand as a double bass player for the Boston Symphony Orchestra The Handmaid s Tale takes place in Boston following the establishment of a neo Puritanic totalitarian state Gilead The Practice centered on a Boston law firm also created by David E Kelley Rizzoli amp Isles drama starring Angie Harmon as Police Detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as Medical Examiner Dr Maura Isles Sabrina the Teenage Witch St Elsewhere drama set in the fictional St Eligius Hospital in Boston Spenser For Hire featuring Robert Urich playing the Robert B Parker character Suite Life of Zack amp Cody comedy made for the younger audience takes place in a fictional hotel in Boston survivors remorse the family is from dorchester Two Guys and a Girl Unhitched about a group of newly single friends learning the lessons of starting over in their 30s The X Files in Medusa Episode 12 of Season 8 Agents Doggett and Scully investigate suspicious deaths on the Boston subway systemFilm EditA number of films have been set in Boston or Greater Boston 21 a fictionalized account of the very unofficial MIT Blackjack Team Altered States Ken Russell film based on Paddy Chayefsky s novel Between the Lines Black Mass about the criminal career of infamous Irish American mobster Whitey Bulger Blown Away depicts the Boston Bomb Squad dealing with a mad bomber Blue Hill Avenue about four childhood friends from Dorchester who grow up to become drug dealers The Boondock Saints about two Irish immigrant brothers in Boston who become vigilantes The Boondock Saints II All Saints Day sequel to The Boondock Saints in which the brothers are forced to return to Boston The Boston Strangler depicting a famous serial killer played by Tony Curtis The Bostonians The Brink s Job about the famous robbery of the Brinks security transport in the North End Celtic Pride about two diehard Boston Celtics fans Charly based on Flowers for Algernon about a mentally challenged man who receives treatment for his disability A Civil Action about several families who attempt to sue a company for dumping toxic waste that gave their children leukemia filmed all over Boston ironically not in Woburn where it takes place but in Palmer Coma is set at the fictional Boston Memorial Hospital The Company Men starring Ben Affleck Chris Cooper Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner The Core in an early scene people with pacemakers mysteriously drop dead during Green World Day it is later known that the core stopped rotating The Departed Martin Scorsese s 2006 hit film takes place in Boston with prominent use of Boston landmarks and culture winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture Dirty Tricks 1981 film starring Elliott Gould as a Harvard professor involved in an historical crime caper Edge of Darkness 2010 crime thriller starring Mel Gibson The Equalizer starring Denzel Washington The 2005 remake of Fever Pitch about a man s obsession with the Boston Red Sox Field of Dreams Ray Kinsella s journey takes him through Boston to fetch Terence Mann and attend a game at Fenway Park The Firm film s opening takes place at Harvard The Forbidden Kingdom martial arts comedy drama about a Boston boy who enters a Chinese fantasy world with Jet Li and Jackie Chan The Friends of Eddie Coyle drama about an aging mob gun runner from Quincy who has to choose whether or not to inform on his Irish Mob friends to avoid jail time Fuzz detectives from Boston s 87th Precinct s investigate a murder extortion racket run by a mysterious deaf man The Game Plan Godzilla King of the Monsters 2019 film in which the climactic kaiju battle starts in Fenway Park and destroys Boston Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck takes place and was filmed in Boston Good Will Hunting takes place in Boston the characters live in South Boston and some other action is set at Harvard and M I T The Handmaid s Tale set in the Harvard Square area Harvard Man a basketball player strikes a deal with the mob to fix a basketball game The Heat a comedy starring Sandra Bullock based in Boston Heaven s Gate exterior Harvard scenes filmed at Oxford University Hollow Point 1996 Home Before Dark 1958 set in Boston and Cape Cod adapted from the novel by Eileen Bassing original negative is lost House of the Damned all of the interior shots were done in the house of the director Sean Weathers in Brooklyn New York however Weathers wanted a different feel for the exteriors so he and his cinematographer drove to Boston to reshoot the exteriors months later without the actors citation needed The House of Magic takes place in Boston and its hospital Housesitter Ice Princess takes place in Worcester MA around the Greater Boston area about a physics geek who dreams of becoming a professional ice skater and gets an offer to go to Harvard but turns down that offer Johnny Tremain 1957 Disney film based on the novel of the same name Knight and Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz Knowing The Last Detail about two United States Navy policemen who decide to take out a young sailor for one last night on the town through Boston s Combat Zone before he goes to jail The Last Hurrah Legally Blonde about a UCLA Valley Girl who attempts to get her boyfriend back by entering Harvard Law School Lemony Snicket s A Series of Unfortunate Events takes place in Boston as seen on the envelope at the end of the movie 28 Prospero Place Boston Massachusetts USA Little Children set in a fictional suburb of Boston Looking Good by Keith Maillard set in 1969 70 with vivid account of Harvard Square riot Love Story Malcolm X Malcolm s Boston years are chronicled in this film including his prison years which led to his eventual conversion to Islam The Matchmaker Mona Lisa Smile featuring Julia Roberts as a nonconformist Wellesley College professor Moneyball featuring Brad Pitt has a scene at Fenway Park in Boston Monument Ave about low level Charlestown gangsters dealing with the repercussions that arise due to the code of silence Motet by Keith Maillard My Best Friend s Girl Mystery Street Mystic River Oscar winning drama about three childhood friends who later reunite after the murder of one of their daughters set in a fictional area of Boston called Buckingham Flats filmed in East Boston and South Boston The Next Karate Kid primary scenes are set in the Boston area filmed partly in Newton Next Stop Wonderland takes place in Boston the MBTA s Wonderland station takes special significance Night School Now Voyager Once Around The Paper Chase about a student struggling through Harvard Law School based on the 1970 novel John Houseman won an Oscar for his role as Professor Kingsfield The Proposal Prozac Nation about a young woman who struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard Sacco and Vanzetti about the famous anarchists convicted of murder Shutter Island thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio takes place on an island in Boston Harbor A Small Circle of Friends about Harvard in the 1960s and three students bonding together The Social Network drama about the creation of Facebook many scenes are set on the Harvard campus Soul Man comedy about a man who poses as a black scholarship winner in order to attend Harvard Law School Southie drama about a man who returns to Southie after leaving for several years to get away from the violence of the gangster life Spotlight fact based drama about the Boston Globe s investigation of the abuses of the Catholic Church The Spanish Prisoner Starting Over romantic comedy starring Burt Reynolds about a recent divorcee who relocates to Boston to restart his life Still We Believe The Boston Red Sox Movie a documentary chronicling the 2003 baseball season of the Boston Red Sox Stonados a Sci Fi Channel television movie about Boston being ravaged by a rain of exploding rocks starting with Plymouth Rock from a freak meteorological event The Story of Alexander Graham Bell Surrogates futuristic police thriller starring Bruce Willis Ted 2012 and Ted 2 2015 starring Mark Wahlberg The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 about a wealthy businessman who robs banks for excitement Titicut Follies documentary about Bridgewater State Hospital near Boston and the lives of its mental patients The Town starring Ben Affleck The Verdict legal drama about an alcoholic Boston lawyer Vig Money Kings about an honest man who has to become a bookie Walk East on Beacon War of the Worlds film adaptation of the novel the film ends with Tom Cruise and his kids finally reaching Boston where his ex wife lives What Doesn t Kill You 2008 South Boston Irish mob crime drama What s the Worst That Could Happen about a rich man who catches a thief burglarizing his Boston home and steals the thief s lucky ring which the thief then tries to get back What s Your Number starring Chris Evans and Anna Faris With Honors 1994 with Brendan Fraser and Joe Pesci about a Harvard student who loses the only copy of his thesis and traces it to a basement where it has been found by a homeless man who trades pages of the thesis for food and shelter X2 X Men United X Men sequel in which two scenes take place in Boston the home of Bobby Drake alias Iceman Yellow Lights college drama that takes place at Wellesley College as well as a fictional college set in Newton Zookeeper shot at Boston s Franklin Park ZooOther EditAn unaired episode of the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force Boston makes reference to Boston as it satires the 2007 Boston bomb scare See also Edit Cities portalBibliography of BostonReferences Edit Ash Tom Clancy s Rainbow Six Siege Wiki Guide IGN archived from the original on April 23 2021 retrieved April 23 2021 Maverick Operators Tom Clancy s Rainbow Six Siege Ubisoft US The Dandy VigilanteExternal links EditAn annotated bibliography of fiction set in Boston Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Boston in fiction amp oldid 1159529988, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
