Poll closed on July 13 at 5 p.m.
Winner: "Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919"
(Illustration by Ray Bruwelheide)


America's Athens shrugged
Hundreds of cities have embraced a program that celebrates reading and books, but Boston, a hotbed of literacy and culture, remains surprisingly cool to it. Why?
(Sam Allis, Globe Staff)
(Sam Allis, Globe Staff)

