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List of books about the September 11 attacks

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. Five books were identified by another September 2011 review on TODAY. FiveBooks provides listings by experts including security analysts, investigative journalists and academics on the best books about the September 11 attacks.

Fiction

Novels include:

Graphic novels include:

Short stories include:

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:

  • Gothic War on Terror: Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games, by Danel Olson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
  • 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels, by Danel Olson, Lexington Books, 2021
  • Within and Without the Metropolis: Foreground and Background in Post-9/11 Literature, by Alexandru Oravițan, West University of Timișoara Press, 2019
  • British and American Representations of 9/11. Literature, Politics and the Media by Oana Celia Gheorghiu, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
  • 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
  • The Big Bamboozle, by Philip Marshall

Memoirs and first-hand accounts

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.

Other nonfiction

Nonfiction books include:

See also

References