A Maine reading list

Make space for these gems alongside your collection of Stephen King's works.

My Maine book archive....

In no particular order, but all essential Maine-related reading as far as I'm concerned:

• Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert - her first, and in my humble opinion, finest work. Life, love, and lobstering.

• Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons - While crewing on a Maine windjammer a passenger gifted me this book. The pages about this book set on the Coast of Maine have long been dog-eared.

• Every single book by the unmatched Elizabeth Strout (My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, Olive Kitteridge...).

• The Last House Guest by one of my favorites Megan Miranda. #unputdownable ox.

• The Lobster Coast by Colin Woodward - a reporter who digs deep down the well of facts and can spin a fine story.

• Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by uber talented Kerri Arsenault. An investigative memoir about a small former mill town on the Androscoggin River. Kerri narrates the audio version, which is excellent.

• A Passage in Time: Along the Coast of Maine by Schooner by Peter Spectre and featuring timeless photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz.

• Take it Easy: Portland in the 1970s - John Duncan captured the still weird Portland.

• Renascence and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay - gorgeous. "Renascence  " is influenced by her childhood in Camden, Maine.

• For kids - everything by Robert MCloskey and Chris Van Dusen.

• My TBR Maine pile: Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty.

  

  More recommendations for super weird Maine….

  • Chris Packard's Mythical Creatures of Maine, which has some wonderful folklore in it.

  • For variety Nomar Slevik's UFOs Over Maine

  • Al Michaud's Hunting Old Moxie: The Largely True History of the Specter Moose of Lobster Lake, Maine.

  • If you'd like to stick to ghosts, then Thomas Verde's Maine Ghosts & Legends: 30 Encounters with the Supernatural which he just updated a few years ago.