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Let us not forget Maine's own Linda Greenlaw. I loved them all, but I really enjoyed Lobster Chronicles. I didn't think it could get anymore "Maine" if it tried.
I will third Nine Mile Bridge. I read it last winter right after Annette Jackson's My Life In The Maine Woods which is set in the same part of Aroostook county about a decade earlier.
Let us not forget Maine's own Linda Greenlaw. I loved them all, but I really enjoyed Lobster Chronicles. I didn't think it could get anymore "Maine" if it tried.
I just discovered author Louise Dickinson Rich. Her first of many subsequent books was a true page-turner and I highly recommend it: "We Took to the Woods" about her adventures living in a very remote cabin in the general area of Umbagog Lake back in the 1930s and 40s. (first printing 1942).
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The Winter House is where Louise Dickenson Rich and her family moved from nearby Forest Lodge every winter because it was much smaller and easier to heat with wood, their only source of fuel. It still has the large open fireplace and woodstove. Interesting to note that Louise did all of her cooking in the main Lodge . . .
Plans are underway to preserve the Winter House and keep it as a “living museum”. Aldro is moving ahead with his long-standing dream for the museum, leasing the Winter House to the non-profit group Friends of Forest Lodge beginning 7/1/2009. Free tours of the grounds are possible almost any day that anyone wants to walk in to the compound below the old Lower Dam site.
Anything by Linda Greenlaw!!! Love her " Recipes From a Very Small Island"
John Gould is a hoot- always enjoyed him.
Check out something contemporary by Elizabeth Peavey " Maine and Me" and " Outta My Way!"
Should you prefer mysteries, try David Crossman's " A Show of Hands" and "Dead of Winter!" He captures Maine island life and vernacular in the 1960's perfectly!
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You have not read that yet? Outstanding read.
Ya I know right?!! 
