CITY · UNITED STATESBooks set in Brooklyn, New York City
40.650, -73.950
26 books · 25 authors · 1959–2025
26 books here
Most-set authors
Tia Williams (2) · James McBride (1) · Paula Fox (1) · Alyssa Cole (1) · Ibi Zoboi (1) · Paule Marshall (1)
Genres
literary fiction (10) · fantasy (2) · mystery & crime (2) · thriller & suspense (1) · young adult (1) · romance (1)
Books set here
Set in Brooklyn, New York City (22)
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
Cause Houses housing project, South Brooklyn, 1969
Desperate Characters
Paula Fox
Brownstone Brooklyn couple
When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole
Historic Brooklyn neighborhood setting for the thriller
(S)Kin
Ibi Zoboi
Marisol's Brooklyn apartment
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends
Tia Williams
summer in Brooklyn
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Paule Marshall
Barbadian immigrant community
Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill
Brooklyn domestic life
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
NYC borough at the center of trans community life in Torrey Peters's novel of motherhood and identity
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Weeksville free Black community in 19th-century Brooklyn
Man Gone Down
Michael Thomas
present-day setting; narrator living broke and estranged
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Brooklyn Museum climax
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
Brooklyn neighborhood; summer setting of Eva and Shane's reunion and rekindled romance after 15 years apart
Worry
Alexandra Tanner
Brooklyn millennial life — Jules and Poppy share an apartment
The Man Who Saw Seconds
Alexander Boldizar
Preble's home with wife and son — the precognitive man's low-profile life before the NYPD confrontation
Luster
Raven Leilani
Edies subpar apartment and artistic struggle hub
Modern Lovers
Emma Straub
The main drag of Ditmas Park neighborhood
We Are a Haunting
Tyriek White
East New York, Brooklyn — Key's mother Colly haunts the neighborhood across 1980s-90s and 2000s-present
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
1947 Brooklyn boarding house
City of Margins
William Boyle
South Brooklyn neighborhood; working-class world of intersecting lives
When the Tides Held the Moon
Venessa Vida Kelley
1911 Coney Island sideshow
Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon
fictional beach town, Doc Sportello home
Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez
Olga and Prieto's childhood neighbourhood; Puerto Rican community amid 2017 Hurricane Maria aftermath
Also featuring Brooklyn, New York City (4)
Notable locations in Brooklyn, New York City
Brooklyn10Brooklyn, New York3Manhattan Beach2Bedford-Stuyvesant1Bushwick1Coney Island Boardwalk1Cortelyou Road1East New York1Flatbush, Brooklyn1Gravesend, Brooklyn1Luna Park, Coney Island1Sunset Park, Brooklyn1
Nearby books
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
0 km · Flatbush, Brooklyn
Modern Lovers
Emma Straub
2 km · Cortelyou Road
(S)Kin
Ibi Zoboi
3 km · Brooklyn
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
3 km · Brooklyn, New York
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends
Tia Williams
3 km · Brooklyn
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Paule Marshall
3 km · Brooklyn
Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill
3 km · Brooklyn
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
3 km · Brooklyn