CITY · UNITED STATESBooks set in Seattle
47.606, -122.332
24 books · 21 authors · 1980–2025
24 books here
Most-set authors
Tom Robbins (2) · Jamie Ford (2) · Maria Semple (2) · Kyle Lukoff (1) · Jessica Knoll (1) · Michael Crichton (1)
Genres
literary fiction (9) · mystery & crime (2) · historical fiction (2) · young adult (1) · science fiction (1) · romance (1)
Books set here
Set in Seattle (20)
A World Worth Saving
Kyle Lukoff
trans youth survival story
Disclosure
Michael Crichton
Corporate thriller setting
Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah
30 years in Pacific Northwest
Hollow Kingdom
Kira Jane Buxton
zombie apocalypse crow home
Indian Killer
Sherman Alexie
racial tension Native American urban
Jitterbug Perfume
Tom Robbins
Priscilla the waitress
Little Secrets
Jennifer Hillier
Pike Place Market opening scene; Marin's home and the search for her missing son
No-No Boy
John Okada
postwar Japanese American identity
Still Life with Woodpecker
Tom Robbins
Princess lives with exiled parents
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein
dog narrator racing family drama
The Immortal King Rao
Vauhini Vara
Seattle / Puget Sound; King Rao's tech career and near-future island exile in the Pacific Northwest
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
Jamie Ford
2045 climate-besieged Seattle, six generations of Afong Moy's descendants
Today Will Be Different
Maria Semple
one day Seattle life flashbacks
Truth Like the Sun
Jim Lynch
1962 Worlds Fair to 2001
Waxwings
Jonathan Raban
dot-com boom immigrant stories
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple
tech-family Seattle home
Wizard of the Pigeons
Megan Lindholm
Urban fantasy wizard in Seattle
You've Found Oliver
Dustin Thao
College romance setting
Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James
Christian Grey's penthouse apartment
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
WWII-era Japantown hotel
Also featuring Seattle (4)
Bright Young Women
Jessica Knoll
Where Tina Cannon's beloved Ruth went missing after being lured away from a lake; Bundy's Pacific Northwest murders
Idoru
William Gibson
Chia McKenzie home city
The Madonnas of Leningrad
Debra Dean
Contemporary frame narrative
This Is How It Always Is
Laurie Frankel
Family relocates here
Notable locations in Seattle
Escala Tower, Belltown1Meydenbauer Bay, Bellevue1Panama Hotel, Seattle1
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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