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New Jersey

1. "Bruce Springsteen Songs"
     by Bruce Springsteen

2. "Goodbye, Columbus, and five other stories"
     by Philip Roth

3. "Kidnap: the story of the Lindbergh case"
     by George Waller

4. "Leaves of Grass"
     by Walt Whitman
     Whitman lived his last years here

5. "Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike"
     by Michael A. Rockland and Angus K. Gillespie

6. "McClellan's Own Story: the war for the Union..."
     by George B.McClellan
     General McClellan served a term as governor late in his life

7. "The Pine Barrens"
     by John A. McPhee

8. "The Red Badge of Courage"
     by Stephen Crane.
     Perhaps the most famous novel by a native New Jerseyan

9. "The Sportswriter"
     by Richard Ford

10. "This Side of Paradise"
      by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Books #1,2,3,5,7, 9 and 10 are set in New Jersey

The Best of Everything at The Jersey Shore
Bluestones and Salt Hay : Contemporary New Jersey Poets
Butterflies of New Jersey : A Guide