The Best Novels Set in Every State: Part 3, Massachusetts to New Jersey

These are my alternatives to the list created by Melia Robinson and Melissa Stanger for Business Insider. I am excluding works of nonfiction and listing my top three choices for each state. Titles included in the list compiled by Robinson and Stanger are indicated in boldface.

Massachusetts	The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
	Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace
	The Friends of Eddie Coyle	George V. Higgins

Michigan	The Detroit Novels [Seven-Novel Series]	Loren D. Estleman
	them	Joyce Carol Oates
	The Road to Wellville	T.C. Boyle

Minnesota	Main Street	Sinclair Lewis
	Morte d’Urban	J.F. Powers
	In the Lake of the Woods	Tim O’Brien

Mississippi	The Hamlet	William Faulkner
	Wolf Whistle	Lewis Nordan
	Delta Wedding	Eudora Welty

Missouri	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
	Elmer Gantry	Sinclair Lewis
	The Twenty-Seventh City	Jonathan Franzen

Montana	A River Runs through It	Norman MacLean
	The Big Sky	A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
	Winter in the Blood	James Welch

Nebraska	My Antonia	Willa Cather
	Ceremony in Lone Tree	Wright Morris
	Isn’t It Romantic	Ron Hansen

Nevada	The Ox-Bow Incident	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
	Desert of the Heart	Jane Rule
	The Delivery Man	Joe McGinnis, Jr.

New Hampshire	Affliction	Russell Banks
	A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving
	A Separate Peace	John Knowles

New Jersey	Independence Day	Richard Ford
	American Pastoral	Philip Roth
	Rock Moody	Garden State