Books Set in New York City

From Gatsby's Long Island and Salinger's Manhattan to Henry James's Washington Square and Toni Morrison's Harlem — explore the New York that lives in literature.

42 novels mapped, with every real-world location, the history of each place, and what's there today.

All 42 maps set in New York

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara locations map
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan locations map
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue locations map
• Bleed: The Story of the Genovese Crime Family's Biggest Heist by Anthony M. DeStefano locations map
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters locations map
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card locations map
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer locations map
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk locations map
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov locations map
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg locations map
• Go Gentle by Maria Semple locations map
• Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben locations map
• In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer locations map
• In Five Years by Rebecca Serle locations map
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison locations map
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong locations map
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh locations map
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth locations map
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson locations map
• Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin locations map
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles locations map
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron locations map
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon locations map
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath locations map
• The Bohemians by John Strausbaugh locations map
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe locations map
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger locations map
• The Girls Before by Rona Jaffe locations map
• The Girls in the Snow by Checkley Smith locations map
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt locations map
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald locations map
• The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon locations map
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner locations map
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri locations map
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict locations map
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy locations map
• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn locations map
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion locations map
• Underworld by Don DeLillo locations map
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver locations map
• Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi locations map
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio locations map

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