The Life in the Garden State Trilogy

Collect all three books in our bestselling Life in the Garden State trilogy: The World Takes, the award-winning Stay Salty, and Disco Fries & Scenic Drives. Each book is an anthology filled with stories, essays, comics, photography, and poetry from the tip of High Point in Sussex County to the shores of Cape May. The World Takes was the first book in the series, published in 2019. As a publisher based out of Central New Jersey, Read Furiously created an anthology filled with eclectic and talented group of writers and artists to reveal a different side to the state which gave us Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Coca-Cola, Bubble Wrap, Band-Aids, and air conditioners (just to name a few). We named the first book after the “Trenton Makes, the World Takes” bridge - a reminder of the dreams and hard work that so many generations have put into building New Jersey. As our second volume, Stay Salty was awarded the 2022 Feathered Quill Finalist in the Short Story/Anthology category. Following t