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List of books set in New York City

This is a very incomplete list of fiction books set in New York City. Included is the date of first publication.

Contents
1 Books for adults

1.1 19th Century

1.1.1 1880s
1.1.2 1890s

1.2 20th Century

1.2.1 1900s
1.2.2 1920s
1.2.3 1930s
1.2.4 1940s
1.2.5 1950s
1.2.6 1960s
1.2.7 1970s
1.2.8 1980s
1.2.9 1990s

1.3 21st Century

1.3.1 2000s

1.4 Unknown Publication Date

2 Books for children

2.1 20th Century

2.1.1 1930s
2.1.2 1940s
2.1.3 1950s
2.1.4 1960s
2.1.5 1970s
2.1.6 1980s
2.1.7 1990s

2.2 21st Century

2.2.1 2000s

2.3 Unknown Publication Date

Books for adults

19th Century

1880s

1890s

20th Century

1900s

1920s

1930s

  • Call It Sleep - Henry Roth (1934)
  • Turn, Magic Wheel - Dawn Powell (1936)

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)
  • Metropolis - Elizabeth Gaffney (2005)
  • Pinkerton's Sister - Peter Rushford (2005)

Unknown Publication Date

Books for children

20th Century

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

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

21st Century

2000s

  • Empire Dreams - Wendy Wax (2000)
  • Love and Other Four-Letter Words - Carolyn Mackler (2000)
  • Miracle's Boys - Jacqueline Woodson (2000)
  • - 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)
  • - Eileen Heyes (2002)
  • Twelve - Nick McDonnell (2002)
  • Vampire State Building - Elizabeth Levy (2002)
  • The World of Henry Orient - Nora Johnson (2002)
  • A House of Tailors - Patricia Reilly Giff (2004)

Unknown Publication Date
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