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New Jersey Notable Books for 1995-2005 |
Twenty books have been selected representative of notable fiction and non-fiction books for adults, young adults, and children published between the years of 1995 and 2005 either by a New Jersey author, about New Jersey, or using New Jersey locales. Posters were distributed statewide to libraries.
- Margaret Brisco. Women in Transition: I am a Wanderer (2004: PublishAmerica)
- Jim Broderick. Paging New Jersey: A Literary Guide to the Garden State (2003: Rutgers University Press)
- Michael Capuzzo. Close to Share (2001: Broadway)
- Mark Di Ionno. Backroads, New Jersey (2003 Rutgers University Press)
- David Harris Ebenbach Between Camelots (2005: University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Jim Freda. Fishing the New Jersey Coast. (2001: Burford Books) Peter Genovese. Jersey Diners (1996: Rutgers University Press)
- Mark Alan Hewitt. Gustav Stickleys Craftsmen Farms (2001: Syracuse University Press)
- Alice Hoffman. Ice Queen (2005: Little Brown)
- Robert Kurson. Shadow Divers The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (2004: Random House)
- Marc Mappen and Maxine Lurie (editors). Encyclopedia of New Jersey (2004: Rutgers University Press)
- Wil Mara. Wave (2005: Plexus Publishing)
- Sibyl E. Moses, African American Women Writers in New Jersey 1836-2000: A Biographical Dictionary and Bibliographic Guide (2003: Rutgers University Press)
- Jim Murphy. The Great Fire (1995: Scholastic Press)
- Philip Roth. American Pastoral (1997: Random House) (top vote getter)
- Helens Stapinski Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History (2002: Random House Trade Paperbacks)
- Allen St John. Clapton's Guitar (2005: Free Press)
- Richard Veil. Digging New Jersey's Past: Historical Archeology in the Garden State (2002: Rutgers University Press)
- Sandra L. West. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2003: Facts on File)
- Sean Wilentz. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005: WW Norton & Co.)
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