• Source: Boston in fiction

      • This articles lists various works of fiction that take place in Boston, Massachusetts:


      Video games



      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. Another character, Delta Force operator Erik "Maverick" Thorn, is from Boston.
      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


      ’’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
      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 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.

      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 based on the Bull & Finch Pub.
      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
      Frasier, the 2023 revival and sequel to the original Frasier; the title character originated in the Boston-set series Cheers, though the original Frasier series was set in Seattle.
      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
      Love Story in Harvard, South Korean series set among South Korean students at Harvard
      Once Upon a Time, season 1, episode one (South station)
      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 & 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 & 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 system


      Film


      Films have been made in Boston since as early as 1903, and it continues to be both a popular setting and a popular filming location.
      A 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
      The Beekeeper, about a "retired" member of a secret organization fighting to take down a phishing operation
      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
      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 Zoo


      Other


      An 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



      Bibliography of Boston


      References




      External links


      An annotated bibliography of fiction set in Boston

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