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books set in

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Books for adults

Nineteenth century

1800s

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A History of New York __NOTOC__ ''A History of New York'', subtitled ''From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty'', is an 1809 literary parody on the history of New York City by Washington Irving. Originally published under the pseudonym Diedrich ...

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Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and " The Legen ...

(1809)

1860s

*'' Ragged Dick'' -

Horatio Alger Horatio Alger Jr. (; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works. His wr ...

(1868)

1880s

*'' Washington Square'' -

Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...

(1880) *'' A Hazard of New Fortunes'' -

William Dean Howells William Dean Howells (; March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ...

(1889)

1890s

* '' Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' -

Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism an ...

(1893) * '' Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto'' -

Abraham Cahan Abraham "Abe" Cahan (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם קאַהאַן; July 7, 1860 – August 31, 1951) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician. Cahan was one of the founders of ''The Forward'' (), ...

(1896)

Twentieth century

1900s

* '' The House of Mirth'' -

Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray ...

(1905) * '' The Melting Pot'' -

Israel Zangwill Israel Zangwill (21 January 18641 August 1926) was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and be ...

(1908) * '' Ashes of Roses '' -

Mary Jane Auch Mary Jane Auch is an author and illustrator of children's books, including ''One Plus One Equals Blue'', ''Ashes of Roses'', ''The Road to Home'', ''Journey to Nowhere'' and the ''I was a Third Grade ...'' series of books for younger readers. ' ...

(1911) * '' The Custom of the Country'' -

(1913) * ''

The Rise of David Levinsky ''The Rise of David Levinsky'' is a novel by Abraham Cahan. It was published in 1917, and remains Cahan's best known work. Plot summary The book is told in the form of a fictional autobiography of David Levinsky, a Russian Jew who emigrates to ...

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(1917)

1920s

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The Age of Innocence ''The Age of Innocence'' is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine '' Pictorial Review''. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. App ...

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(1920) * ''

The Beautiful and Damned ''The Beautiful and Damned'' is a 1922 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in New York City, the novel's plot follows a young artist Anthony Patch and his flapper wife Gloria Gilbert who become "wrecked on the shoals of dissipati ...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularize ...

(1922) * '' Old New York'' -

(1924) * '' Bread Givers'' -

Anzia Yezierska Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the ...

(1925) * ''

The Great Gatsby ''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby ...

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(1925) * '' Manhattan Transfer'' -

John Dos Passos John Roderigo Dos Passos (; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his ''U.S.A.'' trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visit ...

(1925) * ''The Island Within'' -

Ludwig Lewisohn Ludwig Lewisohn (May 30, 1882 – December 31, 1955) was a novelist, literary critic, the drama critic for ''The Nation'' and then its associate editor. He was the editor of the New Palestine (magazine), New Palestine, an American Zionist jour ...

(1928) * '' Plum Bun'' -

Jessie Redmon Fauset Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image ...

(1929)

1930s

* '' Jews Without Money'' - Michael Gold (1930) * ''

Doc Savage Doc Savage is a fictional character of the competent man hero type, who first appeared in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. Real name Clark Savage Jr., he is a doctor, scientist, adventurer, detective, and polymath who "rights w ...

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Kenneth Robeson Kenneth Robeson was the house name used by Street & Smith publications as the writer of their popular characters Doc Savage and later Avenger. Lester Dent wrote most of the Doc Savage stories; others credited under the Robeson name included: * W ...

(1933-1949) * '' Miss Lonelyhearts'' - Nathanael West (1933) * ''

Call It Sleep ''Call It Sleep'' is a 1934 novel by Henry Roth. The book is about a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early 20th century. Although it earned acclaim, the book sold poorly and was out of ...

'' - Henry Roth (1934) * ''

The Thin Man ''The Thin Man'' (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in a condensed version in the December 1933 issue of ''Redbook''. It appeared in book form the following month. A film series followed, featuring the main cha ...

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Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ('' ...

(1934) * '' Turn, Magic Wheel'' - Dawn Powell (1936)

1940s

* '' The Fountainhead'' -

Ayn Rand Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, . Most sources transliterate her given name as either ''Alisa'' or ''Alissa''. , 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and p ...

(1943) * '' Laura'' -

Vera Caspary Vera Louise Caspary (November 13, 1899 – June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Her best-known novel, '' Laura'', was made into a successful movie. Though she claimed she was not a "real" myste ...

(1943) * '' A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' -

Betty Smith Betty Smith (born Elisabeth Lillian Wehner; December 15, 1896 – January 17, 1972) was an American playwright and novelist, who wrote the 1943 bestseller '' A Tree Grows in Brooklyn''. Early years Smith was born Elisabeth Lillian Wehner on Dec ...

(1943) * '' The Big Clock'' - Kenneth Fearing (1946) * '' The Deadly Percheron'' -

John Franklin Bardin John Franklin Bardin (November 30, 1916 – July 9, 1981) was an American crime writer, best known for three novels he wrote between 1946 and 1948. Biography Bardin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father was a well-to-do coal merchant an ...

(1946) * '' The Street'' - Ann Petry (1946) * '' Three Bedrooms in Manhattan'' - Georges Simenon (1946) * '' East Side, West Side'' -

Marcia Davenport Marcia Davenport (born Marcia Glick; June 9, 1903 – January 16, 1996) was an American writer and music critic. She is best known for her 1932 biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the first American published biography of Mozart. Dave ...

(1947) * '' I, the Jury'' -

Mickey Spillane Frank Morrison Spillane (; March 9, 1918July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have ...

(1947) * '' The Last of Phillip Banter'' -

(1947) * '' The Victim'' -

Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 July 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only w ...

(1947) * ''

Consider Her Ways "Consider Her Ways" is a 1956 science fiction novella by English writer John Wyndham. It was republished as part of a 1961 collection entitled ''Consider Her Ways and Others'', where it forms over a third of the book. It initially appeared as o ...

'' - Frederick Philip Grove (1948)

1950s

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The Caine Mutiny ''The Caine Mutiny'' is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Among its themes, it deals with the moral ...

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Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ...

(1951) * ''

The Catcher in the Rye ''The Catcher in the Rye'' is an American novel by J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form from 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951. Originally intended for adults, it is often read by adolescents for its themes of angs ...

'' - J. D. Salinger (1951) * ''A Walker in the City'' -

Alfred Kazin Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic. He wrote often about the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America. Early life Like many other New York Intellectuals, Alfred Kazin was ...

(1951) * '' Go'' -

John Clellon Holmes John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926, Holyoke, Massachusetts – March 30, 1988, Middletown, Connecticut) was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel '' Go''. Considered the first "Beat" novel, ''Go'' depicted event ...

(1952) * ''

Invisible Man ''Invisible Man'' is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship ...

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Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel ''Invisible Man'', which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote '' Shadow and Act'' (1964), a collec ...

(1952) * '' The Caves of Steel'' -

Isaac Asimov yi, יצחק אזימאװ , birth_date = , birth_place = Petrovichi, Russian SFSR , spouse = , relatives = , children = 2 , death_date = , death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. , nationality = Russian (1920–1922)Soviet (192 ...

(1953) * '' Go Tell It On The Mountain'' -

James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer. He garnered acclaim across various media, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, '' Go Tell It on the Mountain'', was published in 1953; ...

(1953) * ''

Cities in Flight ''Cities in Flight'' is a four-volume series of science fiction novels and short stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively as the "Okie" novels. The series features ent ...

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James Blish James Benjamin Blish () was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his '' Cities in Flight'' novels and his series of ''Star Trek'' novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His novel '' A Case of Conscie ...

(1955-1962) * '' Marjorie Morningstar'' -

(1955) * ''

Atlas Shrugged ''Atlas Shrugged'' is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It was her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered her ''magnum opus'' in the realm of fiction writing. ''Atlas Shrugged'' includes elemen ...

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(1957) * ''

Bunny Lake Is Missing ''Bunny Lake Is Missing'' is a 1965 British-American psychological drama film, directed and produced by Otto Preminger. Filmed in black-and-white widescreen format in London, it was based on the 1957 novel '' Bunny Lake Is Missing'' by Merriam ...

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Merriam Modell Merriam Modell (19 May 1908 – 1 July 1994) (born Miriam Levant in Manhattan, New York ) was an American writer of short stories, suspense and pulp fiction, who wrote primarily under the pen name Evelyn Piper. Many had a common theme: the do ...

(writing as

Evelyn Piper Merriam Modell (19 May 1908 – 1 July 1994) (born Miriam Levant in Manhattan, New York ) was an American writer of short stories, suspense and pulp fiction, who wrote primarily under the pen name Evelyn Piper. Many had a common theme: the do ...

) (1957) * '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' -

Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, ...

(1958) * '' Brown Girl, Brownstones'' -

Paule Marshall Paule Marshall (April 9, 1929 – August 12, 2019) was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel '' Brown Girl, Brownstones''. In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship grant. Life and career Marshall w ...

(1959)

1960s

* '' Franny and Zooey'' - J. D. Salinger (1961) * '' Another Country'' -

(1962) * ''

The Bell Jar ''The Bell Jar'' is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The boo ...

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Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, '' Th ...

(1963) * '' The Group'' - Mary McCarthy (1963) * '' Joy in the Morning'' -

(1963) * '' Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction'' - J. D. Salinger (1963) * '' Joe Gould's Secret'' - Joseph Mitchell (1964) * ''

Last Exit to Brooklyn ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in a brusque, everyman style of prose. Critics and fellow writers praised ...

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Hubert Selby Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. Two of his novels, ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' (1964) and ''Requiem for a Dream'' (1978) explore worlds in the New York area and were adapted as films, both of whi ...

(1964) * '' Brendan Behan's New York'' -

Brendan Behan Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) ( ; ga, Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican activist who wrote in both English and ...

(1964) * '' A Singular Man'' - J. P. Donleavy (1964) * '' An American Dream'' -

Norman Mailer Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Maile ...

(1964) * ''

The Warriors (Yurick novel) ''The Warriors'' is a novel written by Sol Yurick and illustrated by Frank Modell in 1965. In 1979, it was adapted into the film of the same name. Compared to the film, the novel takes a closer look at the concepts of sexuality, reputation, ...

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Sol Yurick Solomon "Sol" Yurick (January 18, 1925 – January 5, 2013) was an American novelist. He was known for his book '' The Warriors'' which became a major motion picture. Personal life and career Yurick was born on January 18, 1925 to a Russian Je ...

(1965) * ''

The Doorbell Rang ''The Doorbell Rang'' is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1965. Plot introduction Nero Wolfe is hired to force the FBI to stop wiretapping, tailing and otherwise harassing a woman who gave away ...

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Rex Stout Rex Todhunter Stout (; December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and ...

(1965) * ''

The Fortunate Pilgrim ''The Fortunate Pilgrim'' is a 1965 novel by American author Mario Puzo. Mario Puzo considered the novel his finest, most poetic, and literary work. In one of his last interviews he stated that he was saddened by the fact that ''The Godfather' ...

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Mario Puzo Mario Francis Puzo (; ; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably '' The Godfather'' (1969), whi ...

(1965) * '' Make Room! Make Room!'' - Harry Harrison (1966) * '' A Queer Kind of Death'' -

George Baxt George Baxt (June 11, 1923 – June 28, 2003) was an American screenwriter and author of crime fiction, best remembered for creating the gay black detective, Pharaoh Love. Four of his novels were finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mys ...

(1966) * ''

The Butterfly Kid ''The Butterfly Kid'' is a science fiction novel by Chester Anderson originally released in 1967. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. The novel is the first part of the Greenwich Village Trilogy, with Michael Kurland writi ...

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Chester Anderson Chester Valentine John Anderson (August 11, 1932 – April 11, 1991) was an American novelist, poet, and editor in the underground press. Biography Raised in Florida, he attended the University of Miami from 1952 to 1956, before becoming ...

(1967) * '' The Chosen'' -

Chaim Potok Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. His first book '' The Chosen'' (1967), was listed on ''The New York Times’'' best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies. Biography ...

(1967) * '' Rosemary's Baby'' -

Ira Levin Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels '' A Kiss Before Dying'' (1953), '' Rosemary's Baby'' (1967), ''The Stepford Wives'' (1972), '' This Perfe ...

(1967) * '' Swing Low, Sweet Harriet'' -

(1967) * ''

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone ''Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone'' is James Baldwin's fourth novel, first published in 1968. Plot Leo Proudhammer, an African-American actor who grew up in Harlem and later moved into Greenwich Village, has a heart attack while on stage ...

(1968) * ''

My Sister Eileen ''My Sister Eileen'' is a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney, originally published in ''The New Yorker'', which eventually inspired many other works: her 1938 book ''My Sister Eileen'', a play, a musical, a radio play (an ...

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Ruth McKenney Ruth Marguerite McKenney (November 18, 1911 – July 25, 1972) was an American author and journalist, best remembered for '' My Sister Eileen'', a memoir of her experiences growing up in Ohio and moving to Greenwich Village with her sister Eilee ...

(1968) * ''

The Godfather ''The Godfather'' is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caa ...

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(1969) * '' Topsy and Evil'' -

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1970s

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Desperate Characters ''Desperate Characters'' is a 1970 novel by Paula Fox. Plot Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a childless, upper-middle class married couple who live in a brownstone in Brooklyn. She is a translator, he an attorney, currently preoccupied by the ac ...

'' - Paula Fox (1970) * ''

Mr. Sammler's Planet ''Mr. Sammler's Planet'' is a 1970 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1971. References External linksat the Nobel Prize websiteSaul Bellow Society {{DEFAULTSORT:Mister Sammler's Plane ...

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(1970) * '' Time and Again'' -

Jack Finney Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney; October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American writer. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including '' The Body Snatchers'' and '' Time and Again''. The former was the ba ...

(1970) * ''

Enemies Enemies or foes are a group that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening. Enemies may also refer to: Literature * ''Enemies'' (play), a 1906 play by Maxim Gorky * '' Enemies, A Love Story'', a 1966 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer * '' Enem ...

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Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer ( yi, יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born American Jewish writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help ...

(1972) * '' Umbrella Steps'' - Julie Goldsmith Gilbert (1972) * '' A Bomb Built in Hell'' -

Andrew Vachss Andrew Henry Vachss ( ; October 19, 1942 – November 23, 2021) was an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths. Early life and career Vachss grew up in Manhattan o ...

(1973) * '' A Fairytale of New York'' - J. P. Donleavy (1973) * ''

Great Jones Street __NOTOC__ Great Jones Street is a street in New York City's NoHo district in Manhattan, essentially another name for 3rd Street between Broadway and the Bowery. The street was named for Samuel Jones, a lawyer who became known as "The Fat ...

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Don DeLillo Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, perf ...

(1973) * '' Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York'' - Gail Parent (1973) * '' The Taking of Pelham One Two Three'' - Morton Freedgood (1973) * ''

If Beale Street Could Talk ''If Beale Street Could Talk'' is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. His fifth novel (and 13th book overall), it is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale St ...

(1974) * '' Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' -

Judith Rossner Judith Rossner (March 31, 1935 – August 9, 2005) was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers '' Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' (1975) and ''August'' (1983). Life and career, 1935–1973 Born in New York City, on March 31, 1 ...

(1975) * '' Sophie's Choice'' -

William Styron William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work. Styron was best known for his novels, including: * '' Lie Down in Darkness'' (1951), his acclaimed f ...

(1976) * ''

Players Players may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * ''Players'' (1979 film), a film starring Ali MacGraw * ''Players'' (2012 film), a Bollywood film * ''Players'' (Dicks novel), a novel by Terrance Dicks, based on the television series ''Doc ...

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(1977) * ''

A Contract with God ''A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories'' is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner published in 1978. The book's short story cycle revolves around poor Jewish characters who live in a tenement in New York City. Eisner pro ...

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Will Eisner William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series ''The Spirit'' (1940–1952) was not ...

(1978) * ''

Dancer from the Dance ''Dancer from the Dance'' is a 1978 gay novel by Andrew Holleran (pen name of Eric Garber) about gay men in New York City and Fire Island. Plot summary The novel revolves around two main characters: Anthony Malone, a young man from the Midwest ...

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Andrew Holleran Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1944), an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, born on the island of Aruba. Most of his adult life has been spent in New York City, Washington, D.C., and a small town in Florid ...

(1978) * '' Faggots'' -

Larry Kramer Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and gay rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to Lo ...

(1978) * '' Happy All the Time'' - Laurie Colwin (1978) * ''

The Stand ''The Stand'' is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday. The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which the few survivin ...

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Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high s ...

(1978)

1980s

* '' L is for Lion: an italian bronx butch freedom memoir'' - Annie Lanzillotto (1981) * '' The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger'' -

(1982) * '' Last Angry Man'' -

Gerald Green Gerald Green (born January 26, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 18th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Know ...

(1983) * '' Winter's Tale'' -

Mark Helprin Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and M ...

(1983) * '' Bright Lights, Big City'' -

Jay McInerney John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. (; born January 13, 1955) is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist. His novels include '' Bright Lights, Big City'', ''Ransom'', '' Story of My Life'', '' Brightness Falls'', and ''The Last ...

(1984) * '' Duplicate Keys'' -

Jane Smiley Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel ''A Thousand Acres'' (1991). Biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a su ...

(1984) * ''

Banana Fish ''Banana Fish'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. It was originally serialized from May 1985 to April 1994 in '' Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'', a manga magazine publishing manga (girls' ...

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Akimi Yoshida is a Japanese manga artist and a graduate of Musashino Art University. She made her professional debut in 1977 with the short story , published in '' Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' magazine. Yoshida is best known for the crime thriller series '' Bana ...

(1985-1994) * '' Blood Music'' -

Greg Bear Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction. His work covered themes of galactic conflict ('' Forge of God'' books), parallel universes ('' The Way'' series), c ...

(1985) * ''

Flood A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrol ...

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(1985) * '' The New York Trilogy'' -

Paul Auster Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and film director. His notable works include ''The New York Trilogy'' (1987), '' Moon Palace'' (1989), ''The Music of Chance'' (1990), '' The Book of Illusions'' (2002), '' The B ...

(1985-86) * '' The Bachelor's Bride'' - Stephen Koch (1986) * '' Dreams of an Average Man'' -

Dyan Sheldon Dyan Sheldon is an American novelist, who has written for adults, children's literature, children and young adult literature, young adults. Originally from Brooklyn, she resides in London and has written a number of young adult novels as well as m ...

(1986) * ''

Money Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money ar ...

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Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir ' ...

(1986) * '' Social Disease'' -

Paul Rudnick Paul Rudnick (born December 29, 1957) is an American writer. His plays have been produced both on and off Broadway and around the world. He is also known for having written the screenplays for several movies, including '' Sister Act'', ''Addams ...

(1986) * '' War Cries Over Avenue C'' - Jerome Charyn (1986) * ''

The Bonfire of the Vanities ''The Bonfire of the Vanities'' is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish ass ...

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Tom Wolfe Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018)Some sources say 1931; ''The New York Times'' and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and was an American author and journalist widely ...

(1987) * '' The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three'' -

(1987) * '' Ice and Fire'' -

Andrea Dworkin Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo ...

(1987) * '' Knight Life'' -

Peter David Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956), often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games.Buxton, Marc (March 29, 2014)"From 'Future Imperfect' to '2099': Peter David's Greatest Hits" Co ...

(1987) * '' Paradise Man'' - Jerome Charyn (1987) * '' Stars and Bars'' -

William Boyd William, Willie, Will or Bill Boyd may refer to: Academics * William Alexander Jenyns Boyd (1842–1928), Australian journalist and schoolmaster * William Boyd (educator) (1874–1962), Scottish educator * William Boyd (pathologist) (1885–1979), ...

(1987) * ''

Strega Strega, the Italian word for ''witch'', may refer to: *Strega, a group of pagan magic users who are part of the protectors of Venice in the Heirs of Alexandria series by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer *Stregheria, or the Strega traditi ...

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(1987) * '' The Year of Silence'' -

Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957, in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American novelist. While established as a writer by several early novels, he is especially known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolu ...

(1987) * ''

Blue Belle ''Blue Belle'', also known as ''Annie'', is a 1976 drama film directed by Massimo Dallamano and starring Annie Belle, Felicity Devonshire, and Maria Rohm. Its Italian title is ''Fine dell'innocenza'' (). Premise A young woman meets up with her ...

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(1988) * ''People Like Us'' -

Dominick Dunne Dominick John Dunne (October 29, 1925 – August 26, 2009) was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film '' The Boys in the Band'' (1970) and ...

(1988) * '' The Crazy Kill'' -

Chester Himes Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include '' If He Hollers Let Him Go'', published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is be ...

(1989) * '' Emma Who Saved My Life'' - Wilton Barnhardt (1989) * ''

Hard Candy A hard candy (American English), or boiled sweet (British English), is a sugar candy prepared from one or more sugar-based syrups that is heated to a temperature of 160 °C (320 °F) to make candy. Among the many hard candy varietie ...

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(1989) * '' I Pass Like Night'' -

Jonathan Ames Jonathan Ames (; born March 23, 1964) is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs, and is the creator of two television series, ''Bored to Death'' (HBO) and '' Blunt Talk'' (STARZ). In the late '90s and early 2000s, ...

(1989)

1990s

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Billy Bathgate ''Billy Bathgate'' is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990, the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal, and was the runner-up for the 1 ...

'' - E.L. Doctorow (1990) * '' Children of the Night'' -

Mercedes Lackey Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels include i ...

(1990) * '' A Home at the End of the World'' -

Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel '' The Hours'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lectur ...

(1990) * ''

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love ''The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love'' is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos. It is about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who immigrate to the United States and settle in New York City in the early 1950s. Th ...

'' - Oscar Hijuelos (1990) * ''

Moon Palace ''Moon Palace'' is a novel written by Paul Auster that was first published in 1989. The novel is set in Manhattan and the U.S. Midwest, and centers on the life of the narrator Marco Stanley Fogg and the two previous generations of his family. ...

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(1990) * '' Our House in the Last World'' - Oscar Hijuelos (1990) * '' Skinny Legs and All'' -

Tom Robbins Thomas Eugene Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is a best-selling and prolific American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy drama"), such as ''Even Cowgirls Get the Blues''. Tom Robbins has lived in La Conner ...

(1990) * ''Aftershock'' -

Chuck Scarborough Charles Bishop Scarborough III (born November 4, 1943) is an American television journalist and author. Since 1974, he has been the lead news anchor at WNBC, the New York City flagship station of the NBC Television Network, and has also appeared ...

(1991) * ''

American Psycho ''American Psycho'' is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of ''The Observer'' notes that while "some countr ...

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Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director. Ellis was first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a ...

(1991) * '' Day of Atonement'' -

Faye Kellerman Faye Marder Kellerman (born July 31, 1952) is an American writer of mystery novels, in particular the " Peter Decker/ Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three nonseries books, ''The Quality of Mercy'', ''Moon Music'', and ''Straight into Darknes ...

(1991) * ''

Sacrifice Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Greeks, and possibly exis ...

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(1991) * ''

Sliver Sliver may refer to: Entertainment * ''Sliver'' (novel), a 1991 novel by Ira Levin ** ''Sliver'' (film), a 1993 film adaptation of the novel ** ''Sliver'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 1993 film * "Sliver" (song), a 1990 song by Nirvana *'' ...

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(1991) * ''

The Blindfold ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

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Siri Hustvedt Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include ''The Blindfold'' (1992), ''The Ench ...

(1992) * ''

The First Wives Club ''The First Wives Club'' is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson, based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Olivia Goldsmith. The film stars Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton as three divorcées who seek retribution ...

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Olivia Goldsmith Olivia Goldsmith (January 1, 1949 – January 15, 2004) was an American author, known for her first novel ''The First Wives Club'' (1992), which was adapted into the 1996 film of the same name. Biography She was born Randy Goldfield and grew u ...

(1992) * '' Good Fairies of New York'' -

Martin Millar Martin Millar is a Scottish writer from Glasgow, now resident in London. He also writes the '' Thraxas'' series of fantasy novels under the pseudonym Martin Scott. The novels he writes as Martin Millar dwell on urban decay and British sub-cul ...

(1992) * '' Sweet Liar'' -

Jude Deveraux Jude Deveraux (born September 20, 1947; née Jude Gilliam) is an American author of historical romances. Deveraux has written over 40 novels, many of which have been on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, including such titles as ''A Knight ...

(1992) * '' The Kaisho'' -

Eric Lustbader Eric Van Lustbader (born December 24, 1946) is an American author of thriller and fantasy novels. He has published as Eric Lustbader, Eric V. Lustbader, and Eric Van Lustbader. He is a graduate of New York's Stuyvesant High School and Columbi ...

(1993) * ''A Mother's Love'' -

Mary Morris Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a Fijian born British actress. Life and career Morris was the daughter of Herbert Stanley Morris, a botanist, and his wife, Sylvia Ena de Creft-Harford. She trained at the Ro ...

(1993) * '' Nude Men'' -

Amanda Filipacchi Amanda Filipacchi (; born October 10, 1967) is an American novelist. She was born in Paris and educated in both in France and in the U.S. She is the author of four novels, '' Nude Men'' (1993), ''Vapor'' (1999), '' Love Creeps'' (2005), and '' T ...

(1993) * '' Closing Time'' -

Joseph Heller Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel ''Catch-22'', a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for ...

(1994) * '' Down in the Zero'' -

(1994) * ''

A Feather on the Breath of God ''A Feather on the Breath of God'' is an album of sacred vocal music written in the 12th century by the German abbess Hildegard of Bingen, and recorded by British vocal ensemble Gothic Voices with English soprano Emma Kirkby. It was released by th ...

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Sigrid Nunez Sigrid Nunez is an American writer, best known for her novels. Her seventh novel, '' The Friend'', won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. She is on the faculty of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Hunter College (CUNY). Biography Sigri ...

(1994) * '' Just Like That'' -

Lily Brett Lily Brett (born Lilijahne Brajtsztajn 5 September 1946, Feldafing displaced persons camp, Bavaria, Germany) is an Australian novelist, essayist and poet. She lived in North Carlton and then Elwood/Caulfield (suburbs of Melbourne) from 1948 to ...

(1994) * ''

The Alienist ''The Alienist'' is a crime novel by Caleb Carr first published in 1994 and is the first book in the Kreizler series. It takes place in New York City in 1896, and includes appearances by many famous figures of New York society in that era, inc ...

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Caleb Carr Caleb Carr (born August 2, 1955) is an American military historian and author. Carr is the second of three sons born to Lucien Carr and Francesca Von Hartz. He authored '' The Alienist'', ''The Angel of Darkness'', ''The Lessons of Terror'', '' ...

(1995) * '' Footsteps of the Hawk'' -

(1995) * ''

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Joan Smith Joan Alison Smith (born 27 August 1953) is an English journalist, novelist, and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director of Hack ...

(1995) * '' The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms'' - J. P. Donleavy (1995) * '' One Coffee With'' -

Margaret Maron Margaret Maron (''née'' Brown; August 25, 1938 – February 23, 2021) was an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels. Biography Maron was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and grew up in central Johnston County; she had a ...

(1995) * ''

World's Fair A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large international exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specif ...

'' - E.L. Doctorow (1996) * '' The Book of Night with Moon'' -

Diane Duane Diane Duane (born May 18, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, long based in Ireland. Her works include the ''Young Wizards'' young adult fantasy series and the '' Rihannsu'' Star Trek novels. Biography Born in New York ...

(1997) * ''

A History of Violence ''A History of Violence'' is a 2005 action thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Josh Olson. It is an adaptation of the 1997 graphic novel of the same title by John Wagner and Vince Locke. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, ...

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John Wagner John Wagner (born 1949) is an American-born British comics writer. Alongside Pat Mills, he helped revitalise British comics in the 1970s, and continues to be active in the British comics industry, occasionally also working in American comics. ...

(1997) * ''

Lives of the Monster Dogs ''Lives of the Monster Dogs'' (1997) is a novel by Kirsten Bakis first published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It was named a ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the year in 1997, and one of the Best Books of the Year by the ''Village Voice''. It was ...

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Kirsten Bakis Kirsten Bakis (born 1968 Switzerland) is an American novelist. Biography Bakis was raised in Westchester County, New York, and graduated from New York University in 1990. She is a recipient of a Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the University of ...

(1997) * '' Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer'' -

Steven Millhauser Steven Millhauser (born August 3, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel '' Martin Dressler''. Life and career Millhauser was born in New York City, grew up in Connecticut, ...

(1997) * '' Sewer, Gas and Electric'' - Matt Ruff (1997) * ''

Sex and the City ''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO. An adaptation of Candace Bushnell's newspaper column and 1996 book anthology of the same name, the series premiered in the United Stat ...

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Candace Bushnell Candace Bushnell (born December 1, 1958) is an American author, journalist, and television producer. She wrote a column for '' The New York Observer'' (1994–96) that was adapted into the bestselling '' Sex and the City'' anthology. The book wa ...

(1997) * '' Snow in August'' -

Pete Hamill Pete Hamill (born William Peter Hamill; June 24, 1935August 5, 2020) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture ...

(1997) * ''

Underworld The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living. Chthonic is the technical adjective for things of the underwo ...

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(1997) * '' The Waterworks'' - E.L. Doctorow (1997) * '' Always Hiding'' - Sophia G. Romero (1998) * ''

Bringing Out The Dead ''Bringing Out the Dead'' is a 1999 American psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Connelly. It stars Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, V ...

'' - Joe Connelly (1998) * '' The Extra Man'' -

(1998) * '' The Hours'' -

(1998) * ''

Last Days of Summer ''Last Days of Summer'' is a 1998 novel written by Steve Kluger. It is an epistolary novel told completely through forms of correspondence; letters, postcards, interviews with a psychiatrist, progress reports, and newspaper clippings. Taking pla ...

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Steve Kluger Steve Kluger (born June 24, 1952) is an American author, playwright, journalist, librettist and lyricist, whose writing is noted for its baseball, gay, and historical (particularly World War II) themes. He has also worked on civil rights, gay ...

(1998) * '' Of Kings and Planets'' - Ethan Canin (1998) * ''

Safe House A safe house (also spelled safehouse) is, in a generic sense, a secret place for sanctuary or suitable to hide people from the law, hostile actors or actions, or from retribution, threats or perceived danger. It may also be a metaphor. Histori ...

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(1998) * '' The Willow Tree'' -

Hubert Selby, Jr. Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. Two of his novels, ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' (1964) and ''Requiem for a Dream'' (1978) explore worlds in the New York area and were adapted as films, both of whi ...

(1998) * '' Wrong Information is being Given Out at Princeton'' - J. P. Donleavy (1998) * '' The Broken Hearts Club'' - Ethan Black (1999) * '' Choice of Evil'' -

(1999) * ''

Downsiders ''Downsiders'' is a 1999 novel by Neal Shusterman. Plot summary

The Downsiders are a secret community of an unknown population (either native-born or "fallers" from the topside) dwelling underneath New York City. They are a proud, noble comm ...

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Neal Shusterman Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young-adult fiction. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book ''Challenger Deep'' and his novel, ''Scythe'', was a 2017 '' Michael L. Prin ...

(1999) * ''

Glamorama ''Glamorama'' is a 1998 novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. ''Glamorama'' is set in and satirizes the 1990s specifically celebrity culture and consumerism. ''Time'' describes the novel as "a screed against models and celebrity". Develop ...

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(1999) * '' Liberty Falling'' -

Nevada Barr Nevada Barr (born March 1, 1952) is an American author of mystery fiction. She is known for her Anna Pigeon series, which is primarily set in a series of national parks and other protected areas of the United States. Early life Although Barr was ...

(1999) * ''

Morningside Heights Morningside Heights is a neighborhood on the West Side of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Morningside Drive to the east, 125th Street to the north, 110th Street to the south, and Riverside Drive to the west. Morningside ...

'' - Cheryl Mendelson (1999) * ''

Motherless Brooklyn ''Motherless Brooklyn'' is a novel by Jonathan Lethem that was first published in 1999. The story is set in Brooklyn, and follows Lionel Essrog, a detective who has Tourette's, a disorder marked by involuntary tics. Essrog works for Frank Minn ...

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Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Allen Lethem (; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, '' Gun, with Occasional Music'', a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was publi ...

(1999) * '' The Silk Code'' - Paul Levinson (1999) * ''

Vapor In physics, a vapor (American English) or vapour (British English and Canadian English; see spelling differences) is a substance in the gas phase at a temperature lower than its critical temperature,R. H. Petrucci, W. S. Harwood, and F. G. Her ...

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(1999) * ''Murder on Astor Place'' (Gaslight Mystery series) - Victoria Thompson (1999)

Twenty-first century

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* '' The 25th Hour'' -

David Benioff David Friedman (; born September 25, 1970), known professionally as David Benioff (), is an American writer, director and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known as co-creator and showrunner of '' Game of Thrones'' (2 ...

(2000) * ''

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'' is a 2000 novel by American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. The novel follows the lives of two Jewish cousins, Czech artist Joe Kavalier and Brooklyn-born write ...

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Michael Chabon Michael Chabon ( ; born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, DC, he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, gr ...

(2000) * '' Bodega Dreams'' -

Ernesto Quiñonez Ernesto Quiñonez (born 1965) is an Ecuadorian-Puerto Rican novelist. His work received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers designation, the Borders Bookstore Original New Voice selection, and was declared a "Notable Book of the Year ...

(2000) * '' City of God'' -

E. L. Doctorow Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama. They included ...

(2000) * '' Killing Time'' -

(2000) * '' Minor Miracles'' -

(2000) * '' Murder in Central Park'' -

Michael Jahn Joseph Michael Jahn (born August 4, 1943) is an American journalist, author and memoirist. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Sayville, New York. He moved to New York City in 1966 and was educated at Dowling College, Adelphi Universi ...

(2000) * '' The Night Inspector'' - Frederick Busch (2000) * ''

The Princess Diaries ''The Princess Diaries'' is a series of epistolary young adult novels written by Meg Cabot, and is also the title of the first volume, published in 2000. The series revolves around Amelia 'Mia' Thermopolis, a teenager in New York who discovers ...

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Meg Cabot Meggin Patricia Cabot (born February 1, 1967) is an American novelist. She has written and published over 50 novels of young adult and adult fiction and is best known for her young adult series '' Princess Diaries'', which was later adapted by ...

(2000) * ''

Redemption Song "Redemption Song" is a song by Jamaican singer Bob Marley. It is the final track on Bob Marley and the Wailers' twelfth album, ''Uprising'', produced by Chris Blackwell and released by Island Records. The song is considered one of Marley's gre ...

'' - Bertice Berry (2000) * '' The Toy Collector'' -

James Gunn James Francis Gunn Jr. (born August 5, 1966) is an American filmmaker and executive. He began his career as a screenwriter in the mid-1990s, starting at Troma Entertainment with ''Tromeo and Juliet'' (1997). He then began working as a directo ...

(2000) * '' About the Author'' -

John Colapinto John Colapinto (born in 1958) is a Canadian journalist, author and novelist and a staff writer at ''The New Yorker''. In 2000, he wrote the ''New York Times'' bestseller '' As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl'', which exposed ...

(2001) * '' Bad Connection'' -

Michael Ledwidge Michael S. Ledwidge is an American author of Irish descent. He wrote his first novel, The Narrowback, while working as the back elevator operator for a Park Avenue Coop apartment building. His novel, Bad Connection was written while working as a ...

(2001) * '' Black Water Transit'' -

Carsten Stroud Karsten or Carsten is a both a given name and a surname. It is believed to be either derived from a Low German form of Christian, or "man from karst". Notable persons with the name include: Given name ;Carsten: * Carsten Charles Sabathia (born ...

(2001) * ''

Borrowed Tides ''Borrowed'' is a 2022 drama film directed by Carlos Rafael Betancourt and Oscar Ernesto Ortega. The film explores the relationship between two men living in South Florida. ''Borrowed'' stars Jonathan Del Arco and Héctor Medina, and had its wor ...

'' - Paul Levinson (2001) * ''

Box Office Poison ''Box Office Poison'' is a series of comic books (originally published by Antarctic Press) by Alex Robinson. It was published in collected form by Top Shelf Productions in 2001. The story concerns the life and trials of a group of young people in ...

'' - Alex Robinson (2001) * ''

Clara Callan ''Clara Callan'' is a novel by Canadian writer Richard B. Wright, published in 2001. It is the story of a woman in her thirties living in Ontario during the 1930s and is written in epistolary form, utilizing letters and journal entries to tell t ...

'' - Richard B. Wright (2001) * '' The Corrections'' -

Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel ''The Corrections'', a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Pri ...

(2001) * '' Fixer Chao'' - Han Ong (2001) * '' The Foreigner'' - Meg Castaldo (2001) * ''

The Fourth Angel ''The Fourth Angel'' is a 2001 British-Canadian thriller film directed by John Irvin and starring Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Jason Priestley and Charlotte Rampling. It was written by Allan Scott, from a homonymous novel by Robin Neillands ...

'' - Suzanne Chazin (2001) * '' Going, Going, Gone'' -

Jack Womack Jack Womack (born January 8, 1956) is an American author of fiction and speculative fiction. Womack was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and now lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. "Yeah, I was in Kentucky. Lived there till I was 21, m ...

(2001) * '' The Good People of New York'' -

Thisbe Nissen Thisbe Nissen is an American author. Originally from New York City, she lived in Iowa for eleven years. Among her works are ''Osprey Island'', ''The Good People of New York'', and ''Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night''. She has taught a ...

(2001) * '' The Grand Complication'' -

Allen Kurzweil Allen Kurzweil (born December 16, 1960) is an American novelist, journalist, editor, and lecturer. He is the author of four works of fiction, most notably ''A Case of Curiosities'', as well as a memoir ''Whipping Boy''. He is also the co-inventor ...

(2001) * '' The Haunting of Hip Hop'' - Bertice Berry (2001) * '' Hell's Kitchen'' - Chris Niles (2001) * ''

High Maintenance ''High Maintenance'' is an American anthology comedy-drama television and web series created by ex-husband and wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld. The show follows The Guy, a cannabis courier (played by Sinclair), as he delivers his ...

'' - Jennifer Belle (2001) * '' The Hum Bug'' -

Harold Schechter Harold Schechter (born June 28, 1948) is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism ...

(2001) * '' Jeremy Thrane'' -

Kate Christensen Kate Christensen (born August 22, 1962) is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her fourth novel, ''The Great Man'', about a painter and the three women in his life. Her previous novels are ''In the Drink'' ( ...

(2001) * '' Kissing in Manhattan'' - David Schickler (2001) * '' Look at Me'' - Jennifer Egan (2001) * '' Lucky Us'' -

Joan Silber Joan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel ''Improvement''. Biography Joan Silber was born in 1945. She gr ...

(2001) * ''

The Manhattan Hunt Club ''The Manhattan Hunt Club'' is a thriller horror novel by John Saul, published by Ballantine Books on July 31, 2001. The novel follows the story of Jeff Converse, who is falsely convicted of a brutal crime and finds himself trapped in a secret so ...

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John Saul John Saul (born February 25, 1942) is an American author of suspense and horror novels. Most of his books have appeared on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller List. . Biography Born in Pasadena, Saul grew up in Whittier, California, and grad ...

(2001) * '' Murphy's Law'' -

Rhys Bowen Janet Quin-Harkin (born 24 September 1941, Bath, Somerset) is an author best known for her mystery novels for adults written under the name Rhys Bowen. Career Before she began writing novels, Quin-Harkin worked in the drama department of the ...

(2001) * ''

Rivington Street Rivington Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which runs across the Lower East Side neighborhood, between the Bowery and Pitt Street, with a break between Chrystie and Forsyth for Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Vehicular traf ...

'' - Meredith Tax (2001) * '' Saturn's Return to New York'' -

Sara Gran Sara Gran (born 1971) is an American author. Career Gran is the author of seven novels, including ''Come Closer'' and ''Dope''. Her novel ''Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead'' was the first in a series; it won the 2012 Macavity Award for " ...

(2001) * '' Shooting Dr. Jack'' - Norman Green (2001) * '' Absolute Rage'' - Robert K. Tanenbaum (2002) * '' The Consciousness Plague'' - Paul Levinson (2002) * '' Death of Riley'' -

(2002) * ''

Disturbing the Peace Breach of the peace, or disturbing the peace, is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries and in a public order sense in the several jurisdictions of the United Kingdom. It is a form of disorderly conduct. Public ord ...

'' - Nancy Newman (2002) * '' Dreamland'' - Kevin Baker (2002) * ''

The Nanny Diaries ''The Nanny Diaries'' is a 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, both of whom are former nannies. The book satirizes upper-class Manhattan society as seen through the eyes of their children's caregivers. Writing The writers were studen ...

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Emma McLaughlin Emma Lanier McLaughlin (born February 7, 1974 in Elmira, New York) is an American novelist. Biography McLaughlin graduated from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She met Nicola Kraus while both were attending New ...

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Nicola Kraus Nicola Kraus (born August 17, 1974) is an American novelist. Personal life Kraus was born in New York City, and graduated from the Chapin School and then New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She met Emma McLaughlin w ...

(2002) * '' The Navigator of New York'' - Wayne Johnston (2002) * ''

Only Child An only child is a person with no siblings, by birth or adoption. Children who have half-siblings, step-siblings, or have never met their siblings, either living at the same house or at a different house—especially those who were born consider ...

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(2002) * '' Paradise Alley'' - Kevin Baker (2002) * '' Pipsqueak'' - Brian Wiprud (2002) * ''

Save Karyn Save Karyn is the name of both a Web site and a book. SaveKaryn.com was the first notable cyberbegging site. ''Save Karyn: One Shopaholic’s Journey to Debt and Back'' is the book chronicling the events leading up to and through the height of th ...

'' - Karyn Bosnak (2002) * '' Shopaholic Takes Manhattan'' -

Sophie Kinsella Madeleine Sophie Wickham, known by her pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author. The first two novels in her best-selling Shopaholic series, '' The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic'' and '' Shopaholic Abroad'', were adapted into the fi ...

(2002) * '' The Tea Rose'' - Jennifer Donally (2002) * ''

Three Junes ''Three Junes'' is Julia Glass' debut novel. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 2002.

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Julia Glass Julia Glass (born March 23, 1956) is an American novelist. Her debut novel, ''Three Junes'', won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002.

(2002) * ''

The Anniversary The Anniversary is an American band formed in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1997 by Josh Berwanger, James David, Christian Jankowski, Adrianne Verhoeven and Justin Roelofs. The Anniversary was the solidification of a line-up that had been in flux for a ...

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Amy Gutman Amy Gutman (born 1960) is an American novelist. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she graduated from Harvard College ''magna cum laude'', and thereafter became a journalist, working at the '' Wilson Quarterly'' in Washington, DC, and ''The Tenne ...

(2003) * ''The Fortress Of Solitude''

(2003) * ''Carrie Pilby'' - Caren Lissner (2003) * ''Cosmopolis (novel), Cosmopolis'' -

(2003) * ''Dead for Life'' - Ethan Black (2003) * ''The Devil Wears Prada (novel), The Devil Wears Prada'' - Lauren Weisberger (2003) * ''For the Love of Mike (novel), For the Love of Mike'' -

(2003) * ''For Matrimonial Purposes'' - Kavita Daswani (2003) * ''Forever (Pete Hamill book), Forever'' -

(2003) * ''The Furies'' - Fernanda Eberstadt (2003) * ''Hex'' - Maggie Estep (2003) * ''Imitation in Death'' - J.D. Robb (2003) * ''A Killing Gift'' - Leslie Glass (author), Leslie Glass (2003) * ''Kunma (novel), Kunma'' - Frank Corsaro (2003) * ''The Last Good Day (novel), The Last Good Day'' - Peter Blauner (2003) * ''Love Me (novel), Love Me'' - Garrison Keillor (2003) * ''Lucia, Lucia (novel), Lucia, Lucia'' - Adriana Trigiani (2003) * ''Moral Hazard (novel), Moral Hazard'' - Kate Jennings (2003) * ''The Name of the Game (graphic novel), The Name of the Game'' -

(2003) * ''Oracle Night'' -

(2003) * ''Pattern Recognition (novel), Pattern Recognition'' - William Gibson, William Ford Gibson (2003) * ''Phil D'Amato#The Novels, The Pixel Eye'' - Paul Levinson (2003) * ''The Quality of Life Report'' - Meghan Daum (2003) * ''Sheet Music (novel), Sheet Music'' - M. J. Rose (2003) * ''Shopaholic Ties the Knot'' -

(2003) * ''Small Town (novel), Small Town'' - Lawrence Block (2003) * ''What I Loved'' -

(2003) * ''Absent Friends (novel), Absent Friends'' - S. J. Rozan (2004) * ''An Almost Perfect Moment'' - Binnie Kirshenbaum (2004) * ''Bergdorf Blondes'' - Plum Sykes (2004) * ''Between Two Rivers'' - Nicholas Rinaldi (2004) * ''East Side Story'' - Louis Auchincloss (2004) * ''Andrew Vachss#The Burke series, Down Here'' -

(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 (critic), Kyle Smith (2004) * ''Matzo Ball Heiress'' - Laurie Gwen Shapiro (2004) * ''Monster Island (Wellington novel), Monster Island'' - David Wellington (author), David Wellington (August 2004) * ''Nellie's Promise'' - Valerie Tripp (2004) * ''Oh, Play That Thing'' - Roddy Doyle (2004) * ''The Outside World'' - Tova Mirvis (2004) * ''Solos'' - Kitty Burns Florey (2004) * ''The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah'' -

(2004) * ''Under the Manhattan Bridge'' - Irene Marcuse (2004) * ''The White Rose'' - Jean Hanff Korelitz (2004) * ''The Brooklyn Follies'' -

(2005) * ''The Curse of Ravenscourt: A Samantha Parkington, Samantha Mystery'' - Sarah Masters Buckey & Jean-Paul Tibbles (2005) * ''Everyone Worth Knowing'' - Lauren Weisberger (2005) * ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'' - Jonathan Safran Foer (2005) * ''The History of Love'' - Nicole Krauss (2005) * ''In Like Flynn (novel), In Like Flynn'' -

(2005) * ''Love Creeps'' -

(2005) * ''Summer Crossing'' -

(2005; posthumously) * ''Metropolis (novel), Metropolis'' - Elizabeth Gaffney (2005) * ''Pinkerton's Sister'' - Peter Rushforth (2005) * ''The Year of Magical Thinking'' - Joan Didion (2005) * ''Beautiful Lies (novel), Beautiful Lies'' - Lisa Unger (2006) * ''Oh Danny Boy (book), Oh Danny Boy'' -

(2006) * ''Nightlife (novel), Nightlife'' - Rob Thurman (2006) * ''The Emperor's Children'' - Claire Messud (2006) * ''Andrew Vachss#The Burke series, Mask Market'' -

(2006) * ''The Plot to Save Socrates'' - Paul Levinson (2006) * ''The Righteous Men'' - Sam Bourne (2006) * ''Rise and Shine (novel), Rise and Shine'' - Anna Quindlen (2006) * ''Size 12 Is Not Fat'' -

(2006) * ''Size 14 Is Not Fat Either'' -

(2006) * ''Tyrell (novel), Tyrell'' - Coe Booth (2006) * ''The Year of Endless Sorrows'' - Adam Rapp (2006) * ''Big Boned'' -

(2007) * ''Exit Ghost'' - Philip Roth (2007) * ''Moonshine (novel), Moonshine'' - Rob Thurman (2007) * ''Queen of Babble in the Big City'' -

(2007) * ''The Invention of Everything Else'' - Samantha Hunt (2008) * ''Lush Life (novel), Lush Life'' - Richard Price (writer), Richard Price (2008) * ''Madhouse (novel), Madhouse'' - Rob Thurman (2008) * ''Netherland (novel), Netherland'' - Joseph O'Neill (writer, born 1964), Joseph O'Neill (2008) * ''The Associate (novel), The Associate'' - John Grisham (2009) * ''Chronic City'' -

(2009) * ''Deathwish (novel), Deathwish'' - Rob Thurman (2009) * ''Let the Great World Spin'' - Colum McCann (2009) * ''New York (novel), New York'' - Edward Rutherfurd (2009)

2010s

* ''The Thieves of Manhattan'' - Adam Langer (2010) * ''A Manhã do Mundo'', ''The Morning of the World'' - Pedro Guilherme-Moreira (2011) * ''Tabloid City: A Novel'' -

(2011) * ''Open City (novel), Open City'' - Teju Cole (2012) * ''The Gods of Gotham'' - Lyndsay Faye (2012) * ''The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up'' - Jacob M. Appel (2012) * ''The Submission'' - Amy Waldman (2012) * ''The Biology of Luck'' - Jacob M. Appel (2013) * ''Bleeding Edge (novel), Bleeding Edge'' - Thomas Pynchon (2013) * ''The Goldfinch (novel), The Goldfinch'' - Donna Tartt (2013) * ''The Interestings: A Novel'' - Meg Wolitzer (2013) * Modern Lovers (novel), Modern Lovers - Emma Straub, Emma Staub (2016) * ''A Little Life'' - Hanya Yanagihara (2016) *''An Absolutely Remarkable Thing'' - Hank Green (2018) * ''My Year of Rest and Relaxation'' - Ottessa Moshfegh (2018) * ''The Outlaws of Maroon'' - John Curl (2019) * ''Luster (novel), Luster'' - Raven Leilani (2020)

Books for children

1870s

* ''Eight Cousins'' - Louisa May Alcott (1874) * ''Rose in Bloom'' (sequel to ''Eight Cousins'') - Louisa May Alcott (c. 1876)

Twentieth century

1930s

* ''Roller Skates'' - Ruth Sawyer (1936)

1940s

* ''The Matchlock Gun'' - Walter D. Edmonds (1941) * ''The Saturdays'' - Elizabeth Enright (1941) * ''Stuart Little'' - E.B. White (1945)

1950s

* ''All-of-a-Kind Family'' - Sydney Taylor (1951) * ''Camilla Dickinson, Camilla'' - Madeleine L'Engle (1951) * ''Eloise (book), Eloise'' - Kay Thompson (1955)

1960s

* ''The Cricket in Times Square'' - George Selden (author), George Selden (1960) * ''It's Like This, Cat'' - Emily Cheney Neville (1963) * ''Harriet the Spy'' - Louise Fitzhugh (1964) * ''The Pushcart War'' - Jean Merrill (1964) * ''The Long Secret'' - Louise Fitzhugh (1965) * ''The Jazz Man'' - Mary Hays Weik (1966) * ''The Contender (Robert Lipsyte novel), 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

* ''The Planet of Junior Brown'' - Virginia Hamilton (1971) * ''Freaky Friday'' - Mary Rodgers (1972) * ''Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing'' - Judy Blume (1972) * ''The Genie of Sutton Place'' - George Selden (author), George Selden (1973) * ''Nobody's Family is Going to Change'' - Louise Fitzhugh (1974) * ''A Billion for Boris'' (alt. title: ''ESP TV'') - Mary Rodgers (1976) * ''Alan and Naomi'' - Myron Levoy (1977)

1980s

* ''Sarah Bishop'' - Scott O'Dell (1980) * ''Superfudge'' - Judy Blume (1980) * ''Annie on my Mind'' - Nancy Garden (1982) * ''Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name'' - Edward Irving Wortis, Avi (1982) * ''Summer Switch'' - Mary Rodgers (1982) * ''The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline'' - Lois Lowry (1983) * ''So You Want to Be a Wizard'' -

(1983) * ''In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson'' - Bette 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'' - John and Patricia Beatty, Patricia Beatty (1987) * ''Remember Me to Harold Square'' - Paula Danziger (1987) * ''Scorpions (novel), Scorpions'' - Walter Dean Myers (1988) * ''Silver Days (book), Silver Days'' - Sonia Levitin (1989)

1990s

* ''Babyface'' - Norma Fox Mazer (1990) * ''Berts vidare betraktelser'' - Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson (1990)Berts vidare betraktelser, Rabén & Sjögren, 1990 in literature, 1990 * ''Caperucita en Manhattan'' - Carmen Martín Gaite (1990) * ''The Mouse Rap'' - Walter Dean Myers (1990) * ''Voices After Midnight'' - Richard Peck (writer), Richard Peck (1990) * ''Monkey Island (novel), Monkey Island'' - Paula Fox (1991) * ''Nothing To Fear'' - Jackie French Koller (1991) * ''The Pigman and Me'' - Paul Zindel (1991) * ''Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's'' - E.L. Konigsburg (1992) * ''Jumper (novel), Jumper'' - Steven Gould (1992) * ''Letters from Rifka'' - Karen Hesse (1992) * ''Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?'' - Edward Irving Wortis, Avi (1992) * ''Amy Dunn Quits School'' - Susan Richards Shreve (1993) * ''City of Light, City of Dark'' - Edward Irving Wortis, Avi (1993) * ''The Kingdom of Kevin Malone'' - Suzy McKee Charnas (1993) * ''Missing Angel Juan'' - Francesca Lia Block (1993) * ''Scooter (Vera Williams novel), Scooter'' - Vera B. Williams (1993) * ''Behind the Lines (Isabelle Holland novel), Behind the Lines'' - Isabelle Holland (1994) * ''Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme'' - Joan W. Blos (1994) * ''Rite of Passage (Wright novel), Rite of Passage'' - Richard Wright (author), Richard Wright (1994) * ''2095 (novel), 2095'' - Jon Scieszka (1995) * ''Adam Zigzag'' - Barbara Barrie (1995) * ''Lost In Cyberspace'' - Richard Peck (writer), Richard Peck (1995) * ''The Thief from Five Points'' - Louise Fitzhugh (1995) * ''Another Way to Dance'' - Martha Southgate (1996) * ''No-Thanks Thanksgiving'' - Ilene Cooper (1996) * ''Lily's Crossing'' - Patricia Reilly Giff (1997) * ''Where You Belong'' - Mary Ann McGuigan (1997) * ''Berts Babyface'' - Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson (1998) * ''Jazmin's Notebook'' - Nikki Grimes (1998) * ''The Kidnappers'' - Willo Davis Roberts (1998) * ''The Other Shepards'' - Adele Griffin (1998) * ''Dave at Night'' - Gail Carson Levine (1999) * ''

Downsiders ''Downsiders'' is a 1999 novel by Neal Shusterman. Plot summary

The Downsiders are a secret community of an unknown population (either native-born or "fallers" from the topside) dwelling underneath New York City. They are a proud, noble comm ...

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(1999) * ''In the Forests of the Night'' - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1999) * ''Paperboy (novel), Paperboy'' - Isabelle Holland (1999) * ''Rats (novel), Rats'' - Paul Zindel (1999)

Twenty-first century

2000s

* ''Love and Other Four-Letter Words'' - Carolyn Mackler (2000) * ''Miracle's Boys'' - Jacqueline Woodson (2000) * ''Over the Wall'' - John H. Ritter (2000) * ''Princess Diaries'' (series) -

(2000) * ''When I Dream of Heaven: Angelina's Story'' - Steven Kroll (2000) * ''6-321'' - Michael Laser (2001) * ''All the Way Home (novel), All The Way Home'' - Patricia Reilly Giff (2001) * ''Chipper (novel), Chipper'' - James Lincoln Collier (2001) * ''Don't You Know There's A War On?'' - Edward Irving Wortis, 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 novel), Spellbound'' - Janet McDonald (2001) * '' Ashes of Roses'' -

(2002) * ''Bluish'' - Virginia Hamilton (2002) * ''Boy Next Door'' -

(2002) * ''Chill Wind'' - Janet McDonald (2002) * ''The Frog King (2002 novel), Frog King'' - Adam Davies (author), Adam Davies (2002) * ''Gossip Girl (TV series), Gossip Girl'' - Cecily von Ziegesar (2002) * ''Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge?'' - Jon Scieszka (2002) * ''Micawber (book), Micawber'' - John Lithgow (2002) * ''My Heartbeat'' - Garret Freymann-Weyr (2002) * ''Twelve (novel), Twelve'' - Nick McDonell (2002) * ''Vampire State Building (book), Vampire State Building'' - Elizabeth Levy (2002) * ''The World of Henry Orient'' - Nora Johnson (2002) * ''Gregor the Overlander'' (series) - Suzanne Collins (2003) * '' Pattie's Best Deal'' -Dawn Dittmar (2003) * ''A House of Tailors'' - Patricia Reilly Giff (2004) * ''It Can't Rain This Hard Forever'' -Dawn Dittmar (2004) * ''City of Bones (Mortal Instruments), City of Bones'' - Cassandra Clare (2005) * ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians'' series - Rick Riordan (2005) * ''Brookland (novel), Brookland'' - Emily Barton (2006) * ''Missing You (novel), Missing You'' -

(2006) * ''Jinx (Cabot novel), Jinx'' -

(2007) * ''The Night Tourist'' - Katherine Marsh (2007) * ''Mine All Mine'' - Adam Davies (author), Adam Davies (2008) * ''When You Reach Me'' - Rebecca Stead (2009)

2010s

* ''Lowboy (novel), Lowboy'' - John Wray (novelist), John Wray (2010) * ''The Murderer's Daughters'' - Randy Susan Meyers (2010) * ''TimeRiders'' - Alex Scarrow (2010) * ''TimeRiders: Day of the Predator'' - Alex Scarrow (2010) * ''Open City (novel), Open City'' - Teju Cole (2011) * ''Bunheads'' - Sophie Flack (2011) * ''TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code'' - Alex Scarrow (2011) * ''TimeRiders: The Eternal War'' - Alex Scarrow (2011) * ''TimeRiders: Gates of Rome'' - Alex Scarrow (2012) * ''New York Stories'' - Renald Iacovelli (2013) * ''Modern Lovers (novel), Modern Lovers-- Emma Straub'' (2016) 2020s * ''The City We Became (novel), The City We Became'' - N. K. Jemisin (2020)

References

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