From Booklist Adventures of Jonathan Corncob, Loyal American Refugee, published in 1787 in London, was the first novel issued with a New England setting. This bibliography identifies almost 5,000 titles in all genres of fiction published since then that deal with New England. The forms include sentimental, historical, realistic, young adult, detective, and gothic fiction that has been separately published. Poetry and short stories are not included. Except for a few British publications, and two works in translation, only American imprints are listed. Authors range from Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Cheever to Grace Metalious, author of Peyton Place. Arranged by author, each entry notes author birth and death dates, book title, place and date of publication and publisher, and pagination. Authors with pseudonyms are gathered together with cross-references under the name most commonly used. Each entry also includes a 50- to 200-word annotation summarized from reviews found in Kirkus or various H. W. Wilson sources. Entries are indexed by title, place, and subject; a chronology lists titles published through the Civil War. The geographic distribution of the entries is 1,821 about Massachusetts; 738, Maine; 526, Connecticut; 270, Vermont; 261, New Hampshire; and 124, Rhode Island. The topical breakdown favors mystery and detective fiction (830); fiction about adolescence (733); the third most frequent topic identified is marriage and marital problems. Other topics indexed include bachelors, cats, fires and fire fighting, homosexuality and lesbianism, and one novel on serial killers by Rosamond Smith, a pseudonym of Joyce Carol Oates. More than 120 other bibliographies and reference sources were consulted to produce this source. It does not claim to be comprehensive but has gone a long way in exerting some bibliographic control over a fertile literary region. Recommended for large fiction collections and those libraries with this regional emphasis.