List of books about the September 11 attacks explained

This is an incomplete list of books about the September 11 attacks. In the first ten years following the September 11 attacks, dozens of books were published about the attacks or about subtopics such as just the attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City, and more have been published since.

A number of publications have released their own rankings of books about 9/11. In September 2011, The Guardian provided a listing by three panelists of what they felt to be the 20 best.^[1] Five books were identified by another September 2011 review on TODAY.^[2] FiveBooks provides listings by experts including security analysts, investigative journalists and academics on the best books about the September 11 attacks.^[3]

Fiction

Novels include:

• Architect of Courage, 2022 novel by American author Victoria Weisfeld
  • 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 (2011 film)
• 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, (literally The Morning of the World), 2011 first novel by Portuguese writer Pedro Guilherme-Moreira
• The Memory of Things, 2016 novel by American author Gae Polisner
• The Ones We Keep, 2022 novel by Canadian-American author Bobbie Jean Huff
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation, 2018 novel by American author Ottessa Moshfegh
  • 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
• I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, 2012 novel by Lauren Tarshis

Graphic novels include:

• 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
• I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001: A Graphic Novel, 2021, by Lauren Tarshis

Short stories include:

• "The Things They Left Behind," 2003, by Stephen King (according to the afterword in his anthology Just After Sunset, King was prompted to write a 9/11 story after facing criticism from a friend for writing about The Holocaust in an earlier story when he had not experienced it himself)
• "The Mutants," 2004, by Joyce Carol Oates
• "Ground Zero," 2005, by Patrick McGrath
• "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta," 2006 by Martin Amis

Collections of poetry and/or short stories include:

• 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

Reviews of fiction and other literature include:

• Within and Without the Metropolis: Foreground and Background in Post-9/11 Literature, by Alexandru Oravițan, West University of Timișoara Press, 2019
• Book: Mathé. Sylvie. Vallas. Sophie. European perspectives on the literature of 9/11. 2014. Michel Houdiard Editeur. Paris. 9782356921123. 878664251.
• After the Fall, by Richard 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.

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.
• In Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television, scholars from a variety of disciplines demonstrate how emergent American and international texts expand upon and complicate the initial post-9/11 canon.^[4]

Other nonfiction

Nonfiction books include:

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• 9/11 And The Art Of Happiness
• 9-11
• American Ground
• At the Center of the Storm
• The CIA and September 11 (book)
• The Day the World Came to Town
• Debunking 9/11 Myths
• Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
• In the Shadow of No Towers
• 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
• The War on Terror: The Plot to Rule the Middle East.

See also

• List of comics about the September 11 attacks
• List of cultural references to the September 11 attacks

Notes and References

1. News: The 20 best 9/11 books . September 2, 2011 . . December 12, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161209153547/https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2011/sep/02/20-best-september-11-books . December 9, 2016 . live .
2. Web site: Five must-read books about 9/11 and its legacy . www.today.com . September 8, 2011 . January 5, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013804/http://www.today.com/id/44429361/ns/today-today_books/t/five-must-read-books-about-its-legacy/ . March 4, 2016 . live .
3. Web site: Books. Five. The best books on 9/11 Five Books recommends. 2021-02-06. Five Books. en.
4. Book: Representing 9/11 : trauma, ideology, and nationalism in literature, film, and television. Petrovic, Paul, 1982-. 2015 . 978-1-4422-5267-7. Lanham. 904715499.
5. News: Herbert, Rosemary. The longest '102 Minutes'; Reporters' tale a riveting personal glimpse of Sept. 11 tragedy.(Arts and Lifestyle). The Boston Herald. 2005. August 14, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924122331/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-126833843.html. dead. 2015-09-24.
6. Web site: 9/11 Remembered As 102 Minutes.(Breaking News and Opinion)(Book review). Basil & Spice. 2009. August 14, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924151751/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-210162930.html. dead. 2015-09-24.