This article provides an incomplete list of fiction books set in New York City. Included is the date of first publication. Books for adults Nineteenth century 1800s A History of New York - Washington Irving (1809) 1860s Ragged Dick - Horatio Alger (1868) 1880s Washington Square - Henry James (1880) A Hazard of New Fortunes - William Dean Howells (1889) 1890s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane (1893) Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto - Abraham Cahan (1896) Twentieth century 1900s 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) 1920s 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) 1930s 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) Turn, Magic Wheel - Dawn Powell (1936) 1940s The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (1943) Laura - Vera Caspary (1943) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (1943) The Big Clock - Kenneth Fearing (1946) The Deadly Percheron - John Franklin Bardin (1946) The Street - Ann Petry (1946) Three Bedrooms in Manhattan - Georges Simenon (1946) East Side, West Side - Marcia Davenport (1947) I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane (1947) The Last of Phillip Banter - John Franklin Bardin (1947) The Victim - Saul Bellow (1947) Consider Her Ways - Frederick Philip Grove (1948) 1950s The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk (1951) The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (1951) A Walker in the City - Alfred Kazin (1951) Go - John Clellon Holmes (1952) Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison (1952) The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov (1953) Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin (1953) Cities in Flight (series) - James Blish (1955-1962) Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk (1955) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (1957) Bunny Lake Is Missing