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
2512 Howl, Kaddish And Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 1956 American English
2573 Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1919 American English
2798 Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth 1959 American English
2851 The Counterlife Philip Roth 1986 American English
3061 Home Land Sam Lipsyte 2004 American English
3073 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
3311 Growing Up Russell Baker 1982 American English
3854 The Girl Next Door Jack Ketchum 1989 American English
5099 The Doctor Stories William Carlos Williams 1984 American English
5333 Jernigan David Gates 1991 American English
5584 One For The Money Janet Evanovich 1994 American English
5722 White Mule William Carlos Williams 1937 American English
5983 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
7122 Why We Love Helen Fisher 2004 American English
7655 Paterson William Carlos Williams 1946 American English
7980 The Man Who Loved Only Numbers Paul Hoffman 1998 American English
8031 The Pine Barrens John McPhee 1968 American English
8231 The Unabomber Manifesto Theodore Kaczynski 1995 American English
8304 When Death Comes Stealing Valerie Wilson Wesley 1994 American English
8431 Shadow Divers Robert Kurson 2004 American English
8436 Fade Away Harlan Coben 1996 American English
9143 Physics In My Generation Max Born 1968 German English
9188 Nemesis Philip Roth 2010 American English
9188 The Death Class Erika Hayasaki 2014 American English
9321 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9557 Zuckerman Unbound Philip Roth 1981 American English
9880 Basin And Range John McPhee 1981 American English
10202 Tell No One Harlan Coben 2001 American English
10278 Naming And Necessity Saul Kripke 1980 American English
10303 The Summer Of The Great Grandmother Madeleine L'Engle 1974 American English
10448 Washington's Crossing David Hackett Fischer 2004 American English
11134 Toms River Dan Fagin 2013 American English
11225 The Real Lolita Sarah Weinman 2018 Unknown English
11291 Jonathan Edwards George Marsden 2003 American English
11627 Everyman Philip Roth 2006 American English
11660 The Lay Of The Land Richard Ford 2006 American English
11660 Hugging The Shore John Updike 1983 American English
11660 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11660 American Eden Victoria Johnson 2018 Unknown English
11660 No Ashes In The Fire C. L. Moore 2018 Unknown English
11837 The Balance Of Nature John Kricher 2009 Unknown English
11888 Whittaker Chambers Sam Tanenhaus 1997 American English
11922 A People's History Of Computing In The United States Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 American English
11939 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins 1932 American English
11939 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters Ray Stannard Baker 1927 American English
11939 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet Arthur Walworth 1958 American English
11939 Lindbergh A. Scott Berg 1998 American English
12048 Survivor’s Guilt Robyn Gigl 2023 American English
12141 Drown Junot Diaz 1996 American English
12258 Silent Dancing Judith Ortiz Cofer 1990 American English
12250 Election Tom Perrotta 1998 American English
12315 Our Savage Neighbors Peter Silver 2008 Unknown English
12468 The Last Boy Jane Leavy 2010 American English
13337 The Rule Of Four Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason 2004 American English
13531 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
14334 I Married A Communist Philip Roth 1998 American English
14588 Last Call Elon Green 2021 Unknown English
14780 Poems, Essays And Letters Of Joyce Kilmer Joyce Kilmer, Robert Cortes Holliday 1918 American English
14983 The Day We Found The Universe Marcia Bartusiak 2009 American English
14983 Middle Of The Night Riley Sager 2024 American English
14983 When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi David Maranis 1999 American English
15586 Broken Genius Joel N. Shurkin 2020 American English
15865 Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1886 American English
15897 A Sense of Where You Are John McPhee 1965 American English
15897 The Radium Woman Eleanor Doorly 1939 British English
15897 The Great American Novel William Carlos Williams 1923 American English
15897 Dynamite Louis Adamic 1931 American English
15897 An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Of The United States Charles A. Beard 1913 American English
15897 Proceed, Sergeant Lamb Robert Graves 1940 British English
15897 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
17117 Only Begotten Daughter James K. Morrow 1990 American English
17117 The Mind Body Problem Rebecca Goldstein 1983 American English
17117 The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs 2014 American English
17117 Fearless Fourteen Janet Evanovich 2008 American English
17117 A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar 1998 American English
17117 Pastoral Americana Philip Roth 1997 American English
17117 Creepers David Morrell 2005 American English
17117 I Will Find You Harlan Coben 2023 American English
17117 Freedomland Richard Price 1998 American English
17117 Dating Dr. Dil Nisha Sharma 2022 American English
17117 Choke Chuck Palahniuk 2001 American English
17117 The Glorious Cause Jeff Shaara 2002 American English
17117 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
17117 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17117 The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop 2001 Unknown English
17117 Three Month Fever Gary Indiana 1999 American English
17117 Quichotte Salman Rushdie 2019 British English
17117 Breakfast With Buddha Roland Merullo 2007 American English
17117 Good Talk, Dad Bill Geist, Willie Geist 2014 American English
17117 Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell 2005 American English
17117 The Only Plane In The Sky Garrett M. Graff 2019 American English
17117 Life On The Run Bill Bradley 1976 American English
17117 I Too Had A Love Story Ravinder Singh 2007 Indian Hindi
17117 Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver 2018 American English
17117 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster 2017 American English
17117 All Boys Aren’t Blue George Johnson 2020 American English
17117 Dear Edward Ann Napolitano 2020 American English
17117 For One More Day Mitch Albom 2006 American English
17117 We Believe The Children Richard Beck 2015 Unknown English
17117 Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Mans 2021 American English
17117 Liberty Tavern Thomas Fleming 1976 American English
17117 The Man From The Future Ananyo Bhattacharya 2021 Unknown English
17117 The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing Melissa Banks 1999 Unknown English
17117 Omega Farm Martha McPhee 2023 Unknown English
17117 Cosmic Scholar John Szwed 2023 Unknown English
17117 Go Back And Get It Dionne Ford 2023 Unknown English
17117 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17117 Nine Inches Tom Perrotta 2013 American English
17117 Version Control Dexter Palmer 2016 American English
17117 Twisted Family Values V.C. Chickering 2018 Unknown English