This article lists a collection of fiction stories set in New York City. The list is not complete, and each entry includes the date when the book was first published.

Books for adults

• A History of New York – Washington Irving (1809)
• Brother Jonathan – John Neal (1825)
• Ragged Dick – Horatio Alger (1868)
• Washington Square – Henry James (1880)
• A Hazard of New Fortunes – William Dean Howells (1889)
• Maggie: A Girl of the Streets – Stephen Crane (1893)
• Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto – Abraham Cahan (1896)
• The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton (1905)
• The Melting Pot – Israel Zangwill (1908)
• Ashes of Roses – Mary Jane Auch (1911)
• The Custom of the Country – Edith Wharton (1913)
• The Rise of David Levinsky – Abraham Cahan (1917)
• The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (1920)
• The Beautiful and Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
• Old New York – Edith Wharton (1924)
• Bread Givers – Anzia Yezierska (1925)
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
• Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos (1925)
• The Island Within – Ludwig Lewisohn (1928)
• Plum Bun – Jessie Redmon Fauset (1929)
• Ex-Wife – Ursula Parrott (1929)
• Jews Without Money – Michael Gold (1930)
• Doc Savage pulp fiction series – Kenneth Robeson (1933–1949)
• Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West (1933)
• Call It Sleep – Henry Roth (1934)
• The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett (1934)
• Fer-de-Lance – Rex Stout (1934)
• Turn, Magic Wheel – Dawn Powell (1936)
• The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand (1943)
• Laura – Vera Caspary (1943)
• The Hours – Michael Cunningham (1998)
• The Broken Hearts Club – Ethan Black (1999)
• Choice of Evil – Andrew Vachss (1999)
• Downsiders – Neal Shusterman (1999)
• Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis (1999)
• The Book of Night with Moon – Diane Duane (1997)
• A History of Violence – John Wagner (1997)
• Lives of the Monster Dogs – Kirsten Bakis (1997)
• Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer – Steven Millhauser (1997)
• Sewer, Gas and Electric – Matt Ruff (1997)
• Sex and the City – Candace Bushnell (1997)
• Snow in August – Pete Hamill (1997)
• Underworld – Don DeLillo (1997)
• The Waterworks – E. L. Doctorow (1997)
• Always Hiding – Sophia G. Romero (1998)
• Bringing Out The Dead – Joe Connelly (1998)
• The Extra Man – Jonathan Ames (1998)
• The Hours – Michael Cunningham (1998)
• Last Days of Summer – Steve Kluger (1998)
• Of Kings and Planets – Ethan Canin (1998)
• Safe House – Andrew Vachss (1998)
• The Willow Tree – Hubert Selby Jr. (1998)
• Wrong Information is being Given Out at Princeton – J. P. Donleavy (1998)
• Billy Bathgate – E. L. Doctorow (1990)
• Children of the Night – Mercedes Lackey (1990)
• A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham (1990)
• The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love – Oscar Hijuelos (1990)
• Moon Palace – Paul Auster (1990)
• Our House in the Last World – Oscar Hijuelos (1990)
• Skinny Legs and All – Tom Robbins (1990)
• Aftershock – Chuck Scarborough (1991)
• American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
• Day of Atonement – Faye Kellerman (1991)
• Sacrifice – Andrew Vachss (1991)
• Sliver – Ira Levin (1991)
• The Blindfold – Siri Hustvedt (1992)
• The First Wives Club – Olivia Goldsmith (1992)
• Good Fairies of New York – Martin Millar (1992)
• Sweet Liar – Jude Deveraux (1992)
• The Kaisho – Eric Lustbader (1993)
• A Mother's Love – Mary Morris (1993)
• Nude Men – Amanda Filipacchi (1993)
• Closing Time – Joseph Heller (1994)
• Down in the Zero – Andrew Vachss (1994)
• A Feather on the Breath of God – Sigrid Nunez (1994)
• Just Like That – Lily Brett (1994)
• The Alienist – Caleb Carr (

Books for children

• Roller Skates – Ruth Sawyer (1936)
• The Matchlock Gun – Walter D. Edmonds (1941)
• The Saturdays – Elizabeth Enright (1941)
• Stuart Little – E. B. White (1945)

• All-of-a-Kind Family – Sydney Taylor (1951)
• Camilla – Madeleine L'Engle (1951)
• Eloise – Kay Thompson (1955)

• The Cricket in Times Square – 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 (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)

• 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 (1973)
• Nobody's Family is Going to Change – Louise Fitzhugh (1974)
• A Billion for Boris (alternative title: ESP TV) – Mary Rodgers (1976)
• Alan and Naomi – Myron Levoy (1977)

• Sarah Bishop – Scott O'Dell (1980)
• Superfudge – Judy Blume (1980)
• Second Star to the Right – Deborah Hautzig (1981)
• Annie on My Mind – Nancy Garden (1982)
• Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name – Avi (1982)
• Summer Switch – Mary Rodgers (1982)
• The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline – Lois Lowry (1983)
• So You Want to Be a Wizard – Diane Duane (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 – Patricia Beatty (1987)
• Remember Me to Harold Square – Paula Danziger (1987)
• Scorpions – Walter Dean Myers (1988)
• A Begonia for Miss Applebaum – Paul Zindel (1989)
• Silver Days – Sonia Levitin (1989)

• Babyface – Norma Fox Mazer (1990)
• Berts vidare betraktelser – Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson (1990)
• Caperucita en Manhattan – Carmen Martín Gaite (1990)
• The Mouse Rap – Walter Dean Myers (1990)
• Voices After Midnight – Richard Peck (1990)
• 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 – Steven Gould (1992)
• Letters from Rifka – Karen Hesse (1992)
• Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway? – Avi (1992)
• Amy Dunn Quits School – Susan Richards Shreve (1993)
• City of Light, City of Dark – Avi (1993)
• The Kingdom of Kevin Malone – Suzy McKee Charnas (1993)
• Missing Angel Juan – Francesca Lia Block (1993)
• Scooter – Vera B. Williams (1993)
• Behind the Lines – Isabelle Holland (1994)
• Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme – Joan W. Blos (1994)
• Rite of Passage – Richard Wright (1994)
• 2095 – Jon Scieszka (1995)
• Adam Zigzag – Barbara Barrie (1995)
• Lost in Cyberspace – 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 – Neal Shusterman (1999)
• In the Forests of the Night – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1999)
• Paperboy – Isabelle Holland (1999)
• Rats – Paul Zindel (1999)

• Love and Other Four Letter Words – Sarah Dessen (2001)
• The Crossover – Kwame Alexander (2014)
• The City We Became – N. K. Jemisin (2020)