List of books about the September 11 attacks

Fiction

• Between Two Rivers, 2004 novel by American author Nicholas Rinaldi
• Bleeding Edge, 2013 detective story novel by American author Thomas Pynchon
• Eleven, 2006 novel by Welsh David Llewellyn
• The Emperor's Children, 2006 novel by American author Claire Messud
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 2005 novel by American author Jonathan Safran Foer, which led to the film adaptation Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• The Faithful Spy, 2006 Edgar award-winning mystery fiction first novel by Alex Berenson
• Falling Man, 2007 novel by Don DeLillo
• The Garden of Last Days, 2008 novel by American Andre Dubus III
• The Good Life, 2006 novel by American Jay McInerney
• The Good Priest's Son: A Novel by Reynolds Price
• The Immensity of the Here and Now: A Novel of 9.11, 2003 novel by Paul West
• The Immortalists, 2018 New York Times #1 Bestseller novel by Chloe Benjamin
• The Loose Ends Saga, 2016 science fiction novel by Paul Levinson
• The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, Dundee International Book Prize-winning 2012 first novel by American Jacob M. Appel
• A Manhã do Mundo,, 2011 first novel by Portuguese writer Pedro Guilherme-Moreira
• The Memory of Things, 2016 novel by American author Gae Polisner
• Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story, 2016 novel by American author Nora Raleigh Baskin
• Saturday, 2005 "post 9/11" novel by English writer Ian McEwan
• The Submission, 2011 novel by Amy Waldman
• Sunrise Over Fallujah, 2008 novel by American author Walter Dean Myers
• Towers Falling, 2016 novel by American author Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Truthers, 2017 YA novel by Geoffrey Girard
• United States of Banana, 2011 dramatic novel by Giannina Braschi
• We All Fall Down, 2007 novel by Eric Walters
• Windows on the World, 2003 novel by Frédéric Beigbeder
• The Writing on the Wall, 2005 novel by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• The Zero, 2006 novel by Jess Walter
• False Impression, 2005 novel by Jeffrey Archer

• In the Shadow of No Towers, 2004, by Art Spiegelman
• Can't Get No, 2006, by Rick Veitch
• American Widow, 2008, by Alissa Torres
• United States of Banana, 2017, by Joakim Lindengren and Giannina Braschi

• "The Things They Left Behind," 2003, by Stephen King
• "Hello, My Name Is Grief", 2017, by Rebecca McNutt later became the basis for her novel
• "The Mutants," 2004, by Joyce Carol Oates
• "Ground Zero," 2005, by Patrick McGrath
• "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta," 2006 by Martin Amis

• 110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11, 2001, 2004, edited by Ulrich Baer
• In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World, 2015, edited by Douglas Lain

  Non-fiction

Reviews of literature

• Within and Without the Metropolis: Foreground and Background in Post-9/11 Literature, by Alexandru Oravițan, West University of Timișoara Press, 2019
• After the Fall, by Robert Gray, Wiley–Blackwell, 2011
• Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel, by Kristiaan Versluys, Columbia University Press, 2009
• Literature after 9/11, edited by Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Routledge, 2008
• Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature, by E. Ann Kaplan, Rutgers University Press, 2005
• Trauma at Home: After 9/11, by Judith Greenberg, University of Nebraska Press, 2003
• 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, by Ulrich Baer, New York University Press, 2002

  Memoirs and first-hand accounts

• American Widow, 2008 graphic memoir by Alissa Torres, widow of the 9/11 attacks, drawn by Sungyoon Choi
• ', 2011 memoir by former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney with Elizabeth Cheney, including Cheney's version of 9/11
• Unmeasured Strength, 2011 memoir by 9/11 survivor Lauren Manning.
• ', 2017 memoir by T.D. Arkenberg, executive for United Airlines who worked in the airline's crisis center during the attack.

  Collections of essays and/or articles

• Small Wonder, 2002 collection of 23 essays by American novelist and biologist Barbara Kingsolver
• With Every Mistake, 2005 collection of Canadian Gwynne Dyer's articles published between September 11, 2001 and the Iraqi election in 2005

  Other nonfiction

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• American Ground
• At the Center of the Storm
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• The CIA and September 11
• Debunking 9/11 Myths
• Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
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• In the Shadow of No Towers
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• The Little Chapel That Stood
• Longitudes and Attitudes
• The New Patriotism Series
• The New Pearl Harbor
• The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
• Terror and Liberalism
• The Terror Timeline
• The Trigger: The Lie That Changed the World
• Welcome to the Desert of the Real
• With Every Mistake