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February 2005
Compiled by Silvia Fernandez , of Biblioteca Josep Soler Vidal Gava - Barcelona - Spain, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Adachi, Jiro   Island of the Bicycle Dancers

Alexander, Lawrence   Commissioner Teddy series

Auster, Paul   The New York trilogy

Auster, Paul   Oracle Night

Auster, Paul   Moon Palace

Baker, Adam Lloyd   New York Graphic

Baker, Kevin   Paradise Alley

Bardin, John Franklin   The Deadly Percheron

Bardin, John Franklin   The last of Philip Banter

Barr, Nevada   Liberty Falling

Baxt, George   Queer Kind of Death

Baxt, George   Swing Low Sweet Harriet

Baxt, George   Topsy and Evil

Benioff, David   The 25th Hour

Berry, Bertice   Redemption Song

Berry, Bertice   The Haunting of Hip Hop

Block, Lawrence   Small Town

Bushnell, Candace

Cabot, Meg   Boy Next Door

Cabot, Meg   Boy Meets Girl

Capote, Truman   Breakfast at Tiffany's

Carr, Caleb   The Alienist

Cohen, Leah Hager   Heart, You bully, You punk

Cohen, Paula   Gramercy Park

Colapinto, John   About the Author

Colwin, Laurie   Happy all the Time

Cray, David   Little Girl Blue

Daswani, Kavita   For Matrimonial Purposes

Dee, Ed

DeLillo, Don   Cosmopolis

Deveraux, Jude   Sweet Liar

DiNunzio, Douglas   Hot Wired in Brooklyn

Doctorow, E. L.   City of God

Doucet, Julie   My New York diary Graphic novel

Duane, Diane   Book of Night with Moon Fantasy

Duane, Diane   To Visit the Queen Fantasy

Eisner, Will   A Contract with God Graphic novel

Eisner, Will   Minor Miracles Graphic novel

Eisner, Will   The Name of the Game Graphic novel

Eisner, Will   Dropsie Avenue Graphic novel

Ellis, Brett Easton   American Psycho

Ellis, Brett Easton   Glamorama

Enright, Elizabeth   The Saturdays Melendy Family series

Faierstein, Linda

Finney, Jack   Time and Again

Fitzgerald, F. S.   The Great Gatsby

Florey, Kitty   Burns Solos

Fusilli, Jim   Closing Time (first of a series)

Gibson, William   Neuromancer

Goldsmith, Olivia   First Wives Club

Goldsmith, Olivia   Bestseller

Green, Gerald   Last Angry Man (1950s; Brooklyn)

Hamill, Peter   Snow in August (1940s; Brooklyn)

Hamill, Peter   Forever: A Novel

Henry, O. Many short stories ( Set 1890-1910)

Hijuelos, Oscar

Hustvedt, Siri   What I Loved

Janowitz, Tama

Kellerman, Faye   Day of Atonement

King, Stephen   The Stand

Kinsella, Sophie   Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

Kinsella, Sophie   Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Kirshenbaum, Binnie   An Almost Perfect Moment

Kluger, Steve  Last Days of Summer

Lackey, Mercedes  Children of the Night

Lackey, Mercedes; Edghill, Rosemary  Beyond World's End from Bedlam Bard series

Lapierre, Dominique; Collins, Larry   Is New York Burning?

Lethem, Jonathan  Motherless Brooklyn

Mahoney, Dan

Marcuse, Irene  Under the Manhattan Bridge

Maron, Margaret   One Coffee With

Maron, Margaret   The Right Jack

Maron, Margaret   Past Imperfect

Maron, Margaret  Death of a Butterfly

McBain, Ed   87th precinct novels

McCarthy, Mary   The Group

McCourt, Frank   'Tis

McInerney, Jay   Bright Lights, Big City

McKenney, Ruth   My Sister Eileen

McLaughlin, Emma; Kraus, Nicola   Nanny Diaries

Mendelson, Cheryl   Morningside Heights

Meyers, Annette   Olivia Brown mysteries

Meyers, Maan   Historical mysteries

Millar, Martin   Good Fairies of New York

Miller, Henry   Sexus

Mitchell, Joseph   Joe Gould's Secret

Newman, Nancy   Disturbing the Peace

Nunez, Sigrid  Feather on the Breath of God

O'Donnell, Lillian   Norah Mulcahany series

Peck, Richard   Voices after Midnight (YA/Children)

Potok, Chaim

Powell, Dawn   Turn, Magic Wheel (among others)

Preston, Douglas; Child, Lincoln   Cabinet of Curiosities (among others)

Puzo, Mario  The Godfather

Pynchon, Thomas V

Queen, Ellery

Robb, J. D.   In Death series

Robinson, Alex   Box Office Poison (Graphic novel)

Roth, Henry   Call it Sleep

Ruff, Matt  Sewer, Gas, and Electric

Salinger, J. D.   The Catcher in the Rye

Saul, John  The Manhattan Hunt Club

Schickler, David  Kissing in Manhattan

Smith, Bettie   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Spackman, W. M.   An Armful of Warm Girl

Spiegelman, Art   In the Shadow of No Towers (Graphic novel)

Stout Rex   Nero Wolfe books

Styron, William   Sophie's Choice (Brooklyn)

Swerling, Beverly   City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan (family saga)

Sykes, Plum   Bergdorf Blondes

Trigiani, Adriana   Lucia, Lucia (1950s; Greenwich)

Von Drehle, David   Triangle: the fire that changed America. (Non Fiction)

Weisberger, Lauren   The Devil Wears Prada

Wharton, Edith   Old New York

Wharton, Edith   House of Mirth

Wharton, Edith   Custom of the Country

Wharton, Edith   The Age of Innocence

Wilson, F. Paul   Repairman Jack novels

Wiprud, Brian   Pipsqueak

Wolfe, Tom   Bonfire of Vanities

Wouk, Herman   Marjorie Morningstar

Also:

http://www.bibliotravel.com/locale.php?locale=11
Lists 170 books set in NYC

http://www.epfl.net/booklists/booklist2.cfm?LIST_ID=47
Lists 20 books set in NYC

http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us/advisor/longisland.htm
Lists about 45 novels set on Long Island

http://www.uni-mannheim.de/users/bibsplit/anglistik/ny_bks.html
Lists 65 novels set in NYC -- Scroll down page to"Fiction"

Alan Hubin's massive CRIME FICTION bibliography also has an index by geographical setting (http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv73.html#hubin)

 
 
      
   
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