Yankee Reads

Revised and Updated! Winner of the IACP Cookbook Award (Best American Cookbook) Finalist for the Julia Child First Book Award "The perfect apple primer."—Splendid Table“A book capturing the mysteries and magic that can be revealed when you...

Edie Clark’s clear-eyed and lyrical essays in The View from Mary's Farm capture the essence of New England’s weather, seasons, landscape, and its wonderfully independent-minded people. In the tradition of Frost, Thoreau, and Dickinson, Clark...

Walden & Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau A cornerstone of American thought and a deeply influential New England work, Walden captures Henry David Thoreau’s experiment in simple living and spiritual clarity on the shores of Walden Pond...

Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton Set against the stark, snowbound landscape of rural Massachusetts, Ethan Frome is a powerful story of isolation, duty, and desire. First published in 1911, this brief but haunting novel unfolds through the eyes of an outsider,...

Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott One of the most cherished novels in American literature, Little Women tells the timeless story of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they come of age in Civil War-era New England. Inspired by...

The House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne A cornerstone of American Gothic literature, The House of the Seven Gables is a haunting tale rooted in the history, architecture, and legacy of New England. Set in a grand, decaying mansion in Salem,...

Lobstering Women of Maine: Paintings and Stories of Women and Girls Who Fish the Maine Coast by Maine Artist Susan Tobey White Susan Tobey White's paintings in Lobstering Women vividly depict Maine women's participation in today's lobster fishing. The...

A Miscellany of the Sea and all Things Nautical What is the origin of the distress call 'Mayday'? How did the cod change the world?  Where was history's most devastating wave? Where would you find the poop deck? Breverton's Nautical Curiosities by...

New England Nature: Centuries of Writing on the Wonder and Beauty of the Land David K. Leff and Eric D. Lehman The most comprehensive and exquisite collection of nature writing about New England from authors such as: John Smith - Henry David Thoreau -...

Discover a treasure trove of fascinating New England personalities with Edie Clark in States of Grace: Encounters with Real Yankees. You'll meet gardeners, beekeepers, magicians, authors, boat builders, historians, poets, fishermen, a former...

In Saturday Beans and Sunday Suppers, explore a delightful collection of thoughts, memories, and recipes from Edie Clark, one of New England’s cherished writers. Experience life-saving iced tea, classic Indian pudding, dandelion wine from a time...

Whenever Edie Clark asked her father about World War II, he would reply, "There isn't much to tell." But there were bags and boxes full of letters. And the story she found after her parents died, was as rich and strange and heartbreaking as a fairy tale...

In this collection of essays by award-winning Yankee Magazine writer Edie Clark, a woman alone in her mid-life finds a home in a small New Hampshire town. Divorced, remarried and then widowed, she has a lot of reckoning to do, a lot of questions to...

Read and treasure Edie Clark's Monadnock Tales; a long, narrative poem about Mount Monadnock, a mountain that is small in stature but big in the hearts of those who live near it and who recognize its mystical powers. Monadnock rivals Mt. Fuji as the...