The Greatest Books of All Time Set in New Jersey

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
241 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 American English
380 American Pastoral Philip Roth 1997 American English
396 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz 2007 Dominican English
918 The Plot Against America Philip Roth 2004 American English
1484 Independence Day Richard Ford 1995 American English
1637 The Sportswriter Richard Ford 1986 American English
2514 Howl, Kaddish And Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 1956 American English
2574 Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1919 American English
2799 Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth 1959 American English
2854 The Counterlife Philip Roth 1986 American English
3062 Home Land Sam Lipsyte 2004 American English
3074 Patrimony Philip Roth 1991 American English
3154 Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin 1955 American English
3174 Spring And All William Carlos Williams 1923 American English
3310 Growing Up Russell Baker 1982 American English
3853 The Girl Next Door Jack Ketchum 1989 American English
5102 The Doctor Stories William Carlos Williams 1984 American English
5335 Jernigan David Gates 1991 American English
5586 One For The Money Janet Evanovich 1994 American English
5725 White Mule William Carlos Williams 1937 American English
5987 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
7122 Why We Love Helen Fisher 2004 American English
7656 Paterson William Carlos Williams 1946 American English
7981 The Man Who Loved Only Numbers Paul Hoffman 1998 American English
8032 The Pine Barrens John McPhee 1968 American English
8233 The Unabomber Manifesto Theodore Kaczynski 1995 American English
8306 When Death Comes Stealing Valerie Wilson Wesley 1994 American English
8435 Shadow Divers Robert Kurson 2004 American English
8440 Fade Away Harlan Coben 1996 American English
9149 Physics In My Generation Max Born 1968 German English
9193 Nemesis Philip Roth 2010 American English
9193 The Death Class Erika Hayasaki 2014 American English
9327 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9563 Zuckerman Unbound Philip Roth 1981 American English
9885 Basin And Range John McPhee 1981 American English
10208 Tell No One Harlan Coben 2001 American English
10284 Naming And Necessity Saul Kripke 1980 American English
10309 The Summer Of The Great Grandmother Madeleine L'Engle 1974 American English
10454 Washington's Crossing David Hackett Fischer 2004 American English
11141 Toms River Dan Fagin 2013 American English
11232 The Real Lolita Sarah Weinman 2018 Unknown English
11298 Jonathan Edwards George Marsden 2003 American English
11630 Everyman Philip Roth 2006 American English
11663 The Lay Of The Land Richard Ford 2006 American English
11663 Hugging The Shore John Updike 1983 American English
11663 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11663 American Eden Victoria Johnson 2018 Unknown English
11663 No Ashes In The Fire C. L. Moore 2018 Unknown English
11839 The Balance Of Nature John Kricher 2009 Unknown English
11890 Whittaker Chambers Sam Tanenhaus 1997 American English
11924 A People's History Of Computing In The United States Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 American English
11941 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins 1932 American English
11941 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters Ray Stannard Baker 1927 American English
11941 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet Arthur Walworth 1958 American English
11941 Lindbergh A. Scott Berg 1998 American English
12050 Survivor’s Guilt Robyn Gigl 2023 American English
12142 Drown Junot Diaz 1996 American English
12259 Silent Dancing Judith Ortiz Cofer 1990 American English
12251 Election Tom Perrotta 1998 American English
12316 Our Savage Neighbors Peter Silver 2008 Unknown English
12470 The Last Boy Jane Leavy 2010 American English
13340 The Rule Of Four Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason 2004 American English
13532 Born To Run Bruce Springsteen 2016 American English
14025 My New American Life Francine Prose 2011 American English
14232 This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz 2012 American English
14335 I Married A Communist Philip Roth 1998 American English
14589 Last Call Elon Green 2021 Unknown English
14781 Poems, Essays And Letters Of Joyce Kilmer Joyce Kilmer, Robert Cortes Holliday 1918 American English
14985 The Day We Found The Universe Marcia Bartusiak 2009 American English
14985 Middle Of The Night Riley Sager 2024 American English
14985 When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi David Maranis 1999 American English
15594 Broken Genius Joel N. Shurkin 2020 American English
15879 Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1886 American English
15916 A Sense of Where You Are John McPhee 1965 American English
15916 The Radium Woman Eleanor Doorly 1939 British English
15916 The Great American Novel William Carlos Williams 1923 American English
15916 Dynamite Louis Adamic 1931 American English
15916 An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Of The United States Charles A. Beard 1913 American English
15916 Proceed, Sergeant Lamb Robert Graves 1940 British English
15916 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
17164 Only Begotten Daughter James K. Morrow 1990 American English
17164 The Mind Body Problem Rebecca Goldstein 1983 American English
17164 The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs 2014 American English
17164 Fearless Fourteen Janet Evanovich 2008 American English
17164 A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar 1998 American English
17164 Pastoral Americana Philip Roth 1997 American English
17164 Creepers David Morrell 2005 American English
17164 I Will Find You Harlan Coben 2023 American English
17164 Freedomland Richard Price 1998 American English
17164 Dating Dr. Dil Nisha Sharma 2022 American English
17164 Choke Chuck Palahniuk 2001 American English
17164 The Glorious Cause Jeff Shaara 2002 American English
17164 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
17164 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17164 The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop 2001 Unknown English
17164 Three Month Fever Gary Indiana 1999 American English
17164 Quichotte Salman Rushdie 2019 British English
17164 Breakfast With Buddha Roland Merullo 2007 American English
17164 Good Talk, Dad Bill Geist, Willie Geist 2014 American English
17164 Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell 2005 American English
17164 The Only Plane In The Sky Garrett M. Graff 2019 American English
17164 Life On The Run Bill Bradley 1976 American English
17164 I Too Had A Love Story Ravinder Singh 2007 Indian Hindi
17164 Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver 2018 American English
17164 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster 2017 American English
17164 All Boys Aren’t Blue George Johnson 2020 American English
17164 Dear Edward Ann Napolitano 2020 American English
17164 For One More Day Mitch Albom 2006 American English
17164 We Believe The Children Richard Beck 2015 Unknown English
17164 Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Mans 2021 American English
17164 Liberty Tavern Thomas Fleming 1976 American English
17164 The Man From The Future Ananyo Bhattacharya 2021 Unknown English
17164 The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing Melissa Banks 1999 Unknown English
17164 Omega Farm Martha McPhee 2023 Unknown English
17164 Cosmic Scholar John Szwed 2023 Unknown English
17164 Go Back And Get It Dionne Ford 2023 Unknown English
17164 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17164 Nine Inches Tom Perrotta 2013 American English
17164 Version Control Dexter Palmer 2016 American English
17164 Twisted Family Values V.C. Chickering 2018 Unknown English