CITY · UNITED KINGDOMBooks set in London
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84 books · 64 authors · 1838–2025
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Most-set authors
Arthur Conan Doyle (9) · George Orwell (3) · Charles Dickens (3) · Zadie Smith (3) · Natasha Brown (2) · Abdulrazak Gurnah (2)
Genres
literary fiction (34) · fantasy (3) · mystery & crime (3) · thriller & suspense (2) · romance (2) · historical fiction (1) · science fiction (1) · Modernist fiction (1)
Books set here
Set in London (58)
1984
George Orwell
Dystopian totalitarian capital
A Case of Identity
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Xiaolu Guo
Chinese student in London
A Gentleman's Gentleman
TJ Alexander
the London Season
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
main narrative setting
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Assembly
Natasha Brown
contemporary London
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Primary setting - childhood and adult life
Don't Let Him In
Lisa Jewell
Martha and Nicks home
Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister
the warehouse siege
Flesh
David Szalay
Istvan among the super-rich
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Harry Potter series
J.K. Rowling
King s Cross Platform 9 3/4
In the Presence of the Enemy
Elizabeth George
London investigation hub
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell
Marble Hall Murders
Anthony Horowitz
Susan Ryeland works here (frame narrative)
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
Kumiko Notting Hill arrival
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Of Human Bondage
William Somerset Maugham
Patriot Games
Tom Clancy
IRA attack on royals
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
primary setting throughout
Possession
A.S. Byatt
modern scholars research Victorian poets
Red Rabbit
Tom Clancy
Ryan at MI6 Century House
Rules for Ruin
Mimi Matthews
1860s Victorian London
Second-Class Citizen
Buchi Emecheta
immigrant life in London
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Betrayal of Thomas True
A.J. West
primary Georgian setting
The Five Orange Pips
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Train Robbery
Michael Crichton
Victorian heist planning hub
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently detective base
The Man with the Golden Gun
Ian Fleming
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
main setting
The Queen of the Damned
Anne Rice
The Rose Bargain
Sasha Peyton Smith
alternate-history fae London
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
immigrant experience in England
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Victorian London streets
The Woman and the Ape
Peter Høeg
London Zoo near-future setting
Warlight
Michael Ondaatje
Post-war London setting
The Queen of Fives
Alex Hay
the Kendals' Mayfair mansion
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Heart of the legal district and High Court of Chancery
Capital
John Lanchester
Clapham (Pepys Road)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
Hogwarts Express departure point
London Fields
Martin Amis
West London setting - contemporary thriller
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
Time Traveller home base
The In Crowd
Charlotte Vassell
garden party, Thames body
The Blackbirds of St Giles
Lila Cain
the St Giles rookery
London Calling
James Ponti
the royal wedding MI6 case
The Fraud
Zadie Smith
Willesden (Victorian)
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Willesden / NW London
Also featuring London (26)
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V.E. Schwab
Charlotte's 1827 season
Good Omens
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Aziraphale and Crowley base
Gravel Heart
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Ethiopian exile nurse in London
Hungerstone
Kat Dunn
where Lenore lived before
In the Light of What We Know
Zia Haider Rahman
South Kensington frame narrative
Love Forms
Claire Adam
Dawn's present-day life, south London terraced house
Murder Takes a Vacation
Laura Lippman
layover, hotel stay
Our Sister Killjoy
Ama Ata Aidoo
African Students Union diasporic shock
Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Salim's new life in London
Still Life
Sarah Winman
wartime England opening scenes
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
conference trip, sets off the detention
The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
London scenes, Victorian era
The First Witch of Boston
Andrea Catalano
origin before emigration
The Forger's Requiem
Bradford Morrow
forgery dealings
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak
contemporary London storyline
The Map of Love
Ahdaf Soueif
present-day London narrative strand
The Pretender
Jo Harkin
Henry VII's court
The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh
Price family London home
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
Martian advance on London
The Woman in Suite 11
Ruth Ware
the final confrontation
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
Gobblers abduct children here
Universality
Natasha Brown
city trader world, secondary setting
Where the Axe Is Buried
Ray Nayler
exile home of Lilia and Palmer
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
buying the flowers
NW
Zadie Smith
Character routes and scenes
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Mr Brownlow's home
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1 km · Buckingham Palace
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