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Revision as of 12:14, 10 March 2006 by 212.13.241.91 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)This is a very incomplete list of fiction books set in New York City. Included is the date of first publication.
Books for adults
19th Century
1800s
- A History of New York - Washington Irving (1809)
1880s
- Washington Square - Henry James (1880)
1890s
Twentieth century
1900s
- Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser (1900)
- The Melting Pot - Israel Zangwill (1908)
1920s
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)
- Bread Givers - Anzia Yezierska (1925)
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- Plum Bun - Jessie Redmon Fauset (1929)
1930s
- Call It Sleep - Henry Roth (1934)
- Turn, Magic Wheel - Dawn Powell (1936)
1940s
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (1943)
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (1943)
- The Big Clock - Kenneth Fearing (1946)
- The Deadly Percheron - John Franklin Bardin (1946)
- The Street - Ann Petry (1946)
- Three Bedrooms in Manhattan - Georges Simenon (1946)
- I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane (1947)
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1947)
- The Last of Phillip Banter - John Franklin Barden (1947)
- The Victim - Saul Bellow (1947)
- Consider Her Ways - Frederick Philip Grove (1948)
1950s
- The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk (1951)
- The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (1951)
- The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov (1953)
- Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk (1955)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
1960s
- Another Country - James Baldwin (1962)
- The Group - Mary McCarthy (1963)
- Joy in the Morning - Betty Smith (1963)
- Joe Gould's Secret - Joeseph Mitchell (1964)
- Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby (1964)
- Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison (1966)
- The Chosen - Chaim Potok (1967)
- Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin (1967)
- My Sister Eileen - Ruth McKenney (1968)
- The Godfather - Mario Puzo (1969)
- Topsy and Evil - George Baxt (1969)
1970s
- Time and Again - Jack Finney (1970)
- Enemies - Isaac Bashevis Singer (1972)
- Umbrella Steps - Julie Goldsmith Gilbert (1972)
- Great Jones Street - Don Delillo (1973)
- Sophie's Choice - William Styron (1976)
- Players - Don Delillo (1977)
- An Armful of Warm Girl - W.M. Spackman (1978)
- A Contract with God - Will Eisner (1978)
- Dancer from the Dance - Andrew Holleran(1978)
- Faggots - Larry Kramer (1978)
- Happy All the Time - Laurie Colwin (1978)
- The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
- A Queer Kind of Death - George Baxt (1979)
1980s
- The Gunslinger - Stephen King (1982)
- Last Angry Man - Gerald Green (1983)
- Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney (1984)
- Duplicate Keys - Jane Smiley (1984)
- Neuromancer - William Ford Gibson (1984)
- Blood Music - Greg Bear (1985)
- The Hyde Park Murder - Elliott Roosevelt (1985)
- The Bachelor's Bride- Stephen Koch (1986)
- Dreams of an Average Man -Dyan Sheldon (1986)
- Money - Martin Amis (1986)
- Social Disease - Paul Rudnick (1986)
- War Cries Over Avenue C - Jerome Charyn (1986)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe (1987)
- The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King (1987)
- Ice and Fire - Andrea Dworkin (1987)
- Knight Life - Peter David (1987)
- Paradise Man - Jerome Charyn (1987)
- Stars and Bars - William Boyd (1987)
- The Year of Silence - Madison S. Bell (1987)
- Blue Belle - Andrew Vachss (1988)
- Little Odessa - Joseph Koenig (1988)
- People Like Us - Dominick Dunne (1988)
- The Crazy Kill - Chester Himes (1989)
- Emma Who Saved My Life - Wilton Barnhardt (1989)
- A Fairy Tale of New York - J.P. Donleavy (1989)
1990s
- Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow (1990)
- Children of the Night - Mercedes Lackey (1990)
- A Home At The End Of The World - Michael Cunningham (1990)
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos (1990)
- Moon Palace - Paul Auster (1990)
- Our House in the Last World - Oscar Hijuelos (1990)
- Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins (1990)
- Sniper's Moon - Carsten Stroud (1990)
- American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
- Aftershock - Chuck Scarborough
- Day of Atonement - Faye Kellerman (1991)
- Sliver - Ira Levin (1991)
- The First Wives Club - Olivia Goldsmith (1992)
- Good Fairies of New York - Martin Millar (1992)
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez (1992)
- Sweet Liar - Jude Deveraux (1992)
- The Kaisho - Eric Lustbader (1993)
- A Mother's Love - Mary Morris (1993)
- Banished Children of Eve - Peter Quinn (1994)
- A Feather on the Breath of God - Sigrid Nunez (1994)
- Just Like That - Lily Brett (1994)
- The Alienist - Caleb Carr (1995)
- Full Stop - Joan Smith (1995)
- One Coffee With - Margaret Maron (1995)
- Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin (1995)
- Brown Girl, Brownstones - Paula Marshall (1996)
- World's Fair - E.L. Doctorow (1996)
- A History of Violence - John Wagner (1997)
- Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser (1997)
- Off Season - Naomi Holoch (1997)
- Sewer, Gas and Electric - Matt Ruff (1997)
- Sex and the City - Candace Bushnell (1997)
- Lives of the Monster Dogs - Kirstin Bakis (1997)
- Snow in August - Peter Hamill (1997)
- The Waterworks - E.L. Doctorow (1997)
- Underworld - Don DeLillo (1997)
- Always Hiding - Sophia G. Romero (1998)
- Eating Chinese Food Naked - Mei Ng (1998)
- Herb's Pajamas - Abigail Thomas (1998)
- For Kings and Planets - Ethan Canin (1998)
- Last Days of Summer - Steve Kluger (1998)
- The Hours - Michael Cunningham (1998)
- New York Graphic - Adam Lloyd Baker (1998)
- Solo Variations - Cassandra Garbus (1998)
- The Broken Hearts Club - Ethan Black (1999)
- Downsiders - Neal Shusterman (1999)
- Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis (1999)
- Liberty Falling - Nevada Barr (1999)
- Morningside Heights - Cheryl Mendelson (1999)
- Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem (1999)
- The Gang Rape of a Sailor - JJ Phelps (199?)
21st Century
2000s
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon (2000)
- City of God - E.L. Doctorow (2000)
- Killing Time - Caleb Carr (2000)
- Murder in Central Park - Michael Jahn (2000)
- The Night Inspector - Frederick Busch (2000)
- Redemption Song - Bertice Berry (2000)
- The 25th Hour - David Benioff (2000)
- The Toy Collector - James Gunn (2000)
- About the Author - John Colapinto (2001)
- Bad Connection - Michael Ledwidge (2001)
- Because She is Beautiful - Cameron Dougan (2001)
- Black Water Transit - Carsten Stroud (2001)
- Box Office Poison - Alex Robinson (2001)
- Clara Callan - Richard B. Wright (2001)
- Closing Time -Jim Fusili (2001)
- The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen (2001)
- Dog Bites Man! City Shocked! - James Duffy (2001)
- Fixer Chao - Han Ong (2001)
- The Foreigner - Meg Castaldo (2001)
- The Fourth Angel -Suzanne Chazin (2001)
- Going, Going, Gone - Jack Womack (2001)
- The Good People of New York - Thisbe Nissen (2001)
- The Grand Complication - Allen Kurzweil (2001)
- The Haunting of Hip Hop - Bertice Berry (2001)
- Hell's Kitchen - Chris Niles (2001)
- High Maintenance - Jennifer Belle (2001)
- Hot Wired in Brooklyn - Douglas Dinunzio (2001)
- The Hum Bug - Harold Schechter (2001)
- Jeremy Thrane - Kate Christensen (2001)
- Kissing in Manhattan - David Schickler (2001)
- Lit Life - Kurt Wenzel (2001)
- Look At Me - Jennifer Egan (2001)
- Lucky Us- Joan Silber (2001)
- The Manhattan Hunt Club - John Saul (2001)
- The Muse Asylum - David Czuchlewski (2001)
- Rivington Street - Meredith Tax (2001)
- Saturn's Return to New York - Sara Gran (2001)
- Shooting Dr. Jack - Norman Green (2001)
- The Sweet By and By - Jeanne MacKin (2001)
- Absolute Rage - Robert K. Tanenbaum (2002)
- Confessions of an Ex-Girlfriend - Lynda Curnyn (2002)
- Disturbing The Peace - Nancy Newman (2002)
- Dreamland - Kevin Baker (2002)
- Gramercy Park - Paula Cohen (2002)
- Little Girl Blue - David Cray (2002)
- The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (2002)
- The Navigator of New York - Wayne Johnston (2002)
- Paradise Alley - Kevin Baker (2002)
- Pipsqueak - Brian Wiprud (2002)
- Save Karyn - Karyn Bosnak (2002)
- Shopaholic Takes Manhattan - Sophie Kinsella (2002)
- The Anniversary - Amy Gutman (2003)
- Beautiful Bodies - Laura Cunningham (2003)
- Carrie Pilby - Caren Lissner (2003)
- The Cordelia Squad - Mary Anne Kelly (2003)
- Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo (2003)
- A Cruel Season for Dying - Harker Moore (2003)
- Dead For Life - Ethan Black (2003)
- The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger (2003)
- Diary of a Mad Mom to Be -Laura Wolf (2003)
- Empty Stockings - Denis Hamill (2003)
- Forever - Pete Hamill (2003)
- For Matrimonial Purposes - Kavita Daswani (2003)
- The Furies - Fernanda Eberstadt (2003)
- Girl Cook - Hannah McCouch (2003)
- Hex - Maggie Estep (2003)
- Imitation in Death -J.D. Robb (2003)
- A Killing Gift - Leslie Glass (2003)
- Kunma - Frank Corsaro (2003)
- The Last Good Day - Peter Blauner (2003)
- Love Me - Garrison Keillor (2003)
- Lucia, Lucia - Adriana Trigiani (2003)
- Manhattan North - John Mackie (2003)
- Oracle Night - Paul Auster (2003)
- Pattern Recognition - William Ford Gibson (2003)
- The Quality of Life Report - Meghan Daum (2003)
- Sheet Music - M.J. Rose (2003)
- Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella (2003)
- Small Town - Lawrence Block (2003)
- What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt (2003)
- Absent Friends - S.J. Rozan (2004)
- An Almost Perfect Moment - Binnie Kirshenbaum (2004)
- Bergdorf Blondes - Plum Sykes (2004)
- Between Two Rivers - Nicholas Rinaldi (2004)
- Bombshell - Lynda Curnyn (2004)
- The Green and the Gray - Timothy Zahn (2004)
- In the Shadow of No Towers - Art Spiegelman (2004)
- Joy Comes in the Morning - Jonathan Rosen (2004)
- Love Monkey - Kyle Smith (2004)
- Monster Island - David Wellington (August 2004)
- The Island of Bicycle Dancers - Jiro Adachi (2004)
- Oh, Play That Thing - Roddy Doyle (2004)
- Solos - Kitty Burns Florey (2004)
- Song of Susannah - Stephen King (2004)
- Under the Manhattan Bridge - Irene Marcuse (2004)
- The White Rose - Jean Hanff Korelitz (2004)
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)
- The Hour of the Cat - Peter Quinn (2005)
- Metropolis - Elizabeth Gaffney (2005)
- Pinkerton's Sister - Peter Rushforth (2005)
- The Island of Bicycle Dancers - Jiro Adachi (2005)
- Up From Orchard Street - Eleanor Widmer (2005)
Unknown Publication Date
- Banana Fish (manga series) - Akimi Yoshida
- Bringing Out The Dead - Joseph Connelly
- Cities in Flight (series) - James Blish
- Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
- Doc Savage Pulp novel series
- The Doorbell Rang - Rex Stout
- Engaging Men - Lynda Curnyn
- ESP TV - Mary Rodgers
- Laura - Vera Caspary
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar - Judith Rossner
- Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
- Minor Miracles - Will Eisner
- The Name of the Game - Will Eisner
- The New York Trilogy -Paul Auster
- Old New York - Edith Wharton
- Swing Low, Sweet Harriet - George Baxt
Books for children
Twentieth century
1930s
1940s
1950s
- Eloise - Kay Thompson (1955)
1960s
- The Cricket In Times Square - George Selden (1960)
- It's Like This, Cat - Emily Cheney Neville (1963)
- Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh (1964)
- The Long Secret - Louise Fitzhugh (1965)
- Noonday Friends - Mary Slattery Stolz (1965)
- The Jazz Man - Mary Hays Weik (1966)
- The Contender - Robert Lipsyte (1967)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg (1967)
- Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth - E.L. Konigsburg (1967)
- The Young Unicorns - Madeleine L'Engle (1968)
1970s
1980s
- Sarah Bishop - Scott O'Dell (1980)
- Superfudge - Judy Blume (1980)
- Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm - Carla Stevens (1982)
- Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name - Avi (1982)
- The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline - Lois Lowry (1983)
- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Betty Bao Lord (1984)
- Motown and Didi - Walter Dean Myers (1984)
- The Bronze King - Suzy McKee Charnas (1985)
- The Cave Under the City - Harry Mazer (1986)
- A Rat's Tale - Tor Seidler (1986)
- Slake's Limbo - Felice Holman (1986)
- Charley Skedaddle - Patricia Beatty (1987)
- Hiding Places - Lyn Miller-Lachmann (1987)
- Scorpions - Walter Dean Myers (1988)
- Silver Days - Sonia Levitin (1989)
1990s
- Babyface - Norma Fox Mazer (1990)
- Enter Three Witches - Kate Gilmore (1990)
- A Long Way To Go - Zibby Oneal (1990)
- The Mouse Rap - Walter Dean Myers (1990)
- Voices After Midnight - Richard Peck (1990)
- Nothing To Fear - Jackie French Koller (1991)
- The Pigman and Me - Paul Zindel (1991)
- Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdales - E.L. Konigsburg (1992)
- An Ellis Island Christmas - Maxine Rhea Leighton (1992)
- Kelly 'N' Me - Myron Levoy (1992)
- Letters from Rifka - Karen Hesse (1992)
- Lily and Miss Liberty - Carla Stevens (1994)
- Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway? - Avi (1992)
- Amy Dunn Quits School - Susan Richards Shreve (1993)
- City of Light, City of Dark - Avi (1993)
- The Kingdon of Kevin Malone - Suzy McKee Charnas (1993)
- Love You, Soldier - Amy Hest (1993)
- Missing Angel Juan - Francesca Lia Block (1993)
- The Sabbath Garden - Patricia Baird Greene (1993)
- Behing the Lines - Isabelle Holland (1994)
- Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme - Joan W. Blos (1994)
- East Side Story - Bonnie Bader (1994)
- Rite of Passage - Richard Wright (1994)
- 2095 - Jon Scieszka (1995)
- Adam Zigzag - Barbara Barrie (1995)
- Captured by a Spy - Lucille Travis (1995)
- Falcon's Egg - Luli Gray (1995)
- Lost In Cyberspace - Richard Peck (1995)
- The Rose Horse - Deborah Lee Rose (1995)
- The Thief from Five Points - Louise Fitzhugh (1995)
- Another Way to Dance - Martha Southgate (1996)
- I Am an Artichoke - Lucy Frank (1996)
- No-Thanks Thanksgiving - Ilene Cooper (1996)
- Picture Perfect - Yvonne Lehman (1996)
- Sam's Gift - A.E. Cannon (1996)
- Friends to Die for - Jane Sughrue Giberga (1997)
- Lily's Crossing - Patricia Reilly Giff (1997)
- Snow White and Rose Red - Regina Doman (1997)
- Two Cents and a Milk Bottle - Lee Chai'ah Batterman (1997)
- Wannabe - Shelley Stoehr (1997)
- Where You Belong - Mary Ann McGuigan (1997)
- Cassandra: Live at Carnegie Hall - Nancy J. Hooper (1998)
- The Kidnappers - Willo Davis Roberts (1998)
- The Other Shepards - Adele Griffin (1998)
- Jazmin's Notebook - Nikki Grimes (1998)
- Journey to Ellis Island - Carol Bierman (1998)
- Saratoga Secret - Betsy Sterman (1998)
- Willing Spirits - Phyllis Schieber (1998)
- Dave at Night - Gail Carson Levine (1999)
- Downsiders - Neal Shusterman (1999)
- The Ghost of Gracie Mansion - Susan Kohl (1999)
- In The Forests of the Night - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1999)
- The Lost Village of Central Park - Hope Laurie Killcoyne (1999)
- Paperboy - Isabelle Holland (1999)
- Rats - Paul Zindel (1999)
21st Century
2000s
- Empire Dreams - Wendy Wax (2000)
- Love and Other Four-Letter Words - Carolyn Mackler (2000)
- Miracle's Boys - Jacqueline Woodson (2000)
- When I Dream of Heaven: Angelina's Story - Steven Kroll (2000)
- When I Was Older - Garret Freymann-Weyr (2000)
- 6-321 - Michael Laser (2001)
- All The Way Home - Patricia Reilly Giff (2001)
- Annie Quinn in America - Mical Schneider (2001)
- Chipper - James Lincoln Collier (2001)
- Don't You Know There's A War On? - Avi (2001)
- The Revenge of Randall Reese-Rat - Tor Seidler (2001)
- The School Story - Andrew Clements (2001)
- Secret in St. Something - Barbara Brooks Wallace (2001)
- Spellbound - Janet McDonald (2001)
- The Annoyance Bureau - Lucy Frank (2002)
- Ashes of Roses - Mary Jane Auch (2002)
- Boy Next Door - Meg Cabot (2002)
- Chill Wind - Janet McDonald (2002)
- Fresh Girl - Jaira Placide (2002)
- Gossip Girl - Cecily von Ziegesar (2002)
- Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge? - Scieszka (2002)
- O'Dwyer & Grady Starring in : Acting Innocent - Eileen Heyes (2002)
- Twelve - Nick McDonell (2002)
- Vampire State Building - Elizabeth Levy (2002)
- The World of Henry Orient - Nora Johnson (2002)
- A House of Tailors - Patricia Reilly Giff (2004)
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- Alphabet City Ballet - Erika Tamar
- A Billion for Boris - Mary Rodgers
- Bluish - Virgina Hamilton
- The Book of Night With Moon - Diane Duane
- Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott
- Freaky Friday - Mary Rodgers
- The Genie of Sutton Place - George Selden
- Just Ask Iris - Lucy Frank
- Monkey Island - Paula Fox
- Nobody's Family is Going to Change - Louise Fitzhugh
- Over The Wall - John H. Ritter
- The Planet of Junior Brown - Virigina Hamilton
- The Princess Diaries (series) - Meg Cabot
- Remember Me to Harold Square - Paula Danzinger
- Rose in Bloom (sequel to Eight Cousins) - Louisa May Alcott
- Scooter - Vera B. Williams
- So You Want To Be A Wizard - Diane Duane
- Summer Switch - Mary Rodgers (1982)