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List of books about the September 11 attacks

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This list presents a selection of books related to the September 11 attacks, though it is not exhaustive. In the ten years following the September 11 attacks, numerous works were published addressing the incident and its various aspects, with additional titles appearing subsequently.

Various sources have compiled rankings of significant 9/11 literature. For instance, in September 2011, The Guardian released a curated list of the top 20 books on the subject, chosen by a panel.[1] That same month, TODAY highlighted five notable works.[2] Moreover, FiveBooks provides expert recommendations from security professionals, journalists, and scholars.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name

Fiction

Prominent novels include:

  • Architect of Courage (2022) by Victoria Weisfeld
  • Between Two Rivers (2004) authored by Nicholas Rinaldi
  • Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon
  • Eleven (2006) written by David Llewellyn
  • The Emperor's Children (2006) by Claire Messud
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) by Jonathan Safran Foer, which was adapted into a film in 2011
  • The Faithful Spy (2006), Alex Berenson’s debut novel and Edgar Award recipient
  • Falling Man (2007) by Don DeLillo
  • The Garden of Last Days (2008) by Andre Dubus III
  • The Good Life (2006) by Jay McInerney
  • The Good Priest's Son by Reynolds Price
  • The Immensity of the Here and Now: A Novel of 9.11 (2003) authored by Paul West
  • The Immortalists (2018), a New York Times number one bestseller by Chloe Benjamin
  • I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001 (2012) by Lauren Tarshis
  • The Loose Ends Saga (2016), a science fiction work by Paul Levinson
  • The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (2012), winner of the Dundee International Book Prize by Jacob M. Appel
  • A Manhã do Mundo (2011) written by Pedro Guilherme-Moreira
  • The Memory of Things (2016) authored by Gae Polisner
  • The Ones We Keep (2022) by Bobbie Jean Huff
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) by Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story (2016) written by Nora Raleigh Baskin
  • Saturday (2005), Ian McEwan’s post-9/11 novel
  • The Submission (2011) by Amy Waldman
  • Sunrise Over Fallujah (2008) authored by Walter Dean Myers
  • Towers Falling (2016) by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Truthers (2017), a young adult novel penned by Geoffrey Girard
  • United States of Banana (2011), a dramatic novel by Giannina Braschi
  • We All Fall Down (2007) authored by Eric Walters
  • Windows on the World (2003) written by Frédéric Beigbeder
  • The Writing on the Wall (2005) authored by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
  • The Zero (2006) written by Jess Walter
  • False Impression (2005) authored by Jeffrey Archer

Graphic novels include:

Short story contributions include:

  • "The Things They Left Behind," published in 2003, authored by Stephen King
  • "The Mutants," released in 2004, written by Joyce Carol Oates
  • "Ground Zero," published in 2005, authored by Patrick McGrath
  • "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta," released in 2006, written by Martin Amis

Collections consist of:

  • 110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11, 2001, edited by Ulrich Baer and published in 2004
  • In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World, edited by Douglas Lain and released in 2015

Literature Reviews

Prominent reviews of literature on the subject include:

  • Gothic War on Terror: Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games, authored by Danel Olson, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023
  • 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels, also by Danel Olson, released by Lexington Books in 2021
  • Within and Without the Metropolis: Foreground and Background in Post-9/11 Literature, written by Alexandru Oravițan, West University of Timișoara Press, 2019
  • European Perspectives on the Literature of 9/11, edited by Michel Houdiard Editeur, Paris, 2014
  • 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, published by Wiley–Blackwell in 2011
  • Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel, authored 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, Judith Greenberg's work from University of Nebraska Press, 2003
  • 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, compiled by Ulrich Baer, New York University Press, 2002
  • The Big Bamboozle, authored by Philip Marshall

Memoirs and Personal Narratives

Key personal accounts include:

  • American Widow, a graphic memoir from 2008 by Alissa Torres with illustrations by Sungyoon Choi
  • In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, published in 2011 by former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney alongside Elizabeth Cheney
  • Unmeasured Strength, a memoir from 2011 recounting Lauren Manning’s survival experience

Essay and Article Collections

Important compilations encompass:

  • Small Wonder, a collection of essays released in 2002 by novelist and biologist Barbara Kingsolver
  • With Every Mistake, a series of articles spanning from post-9/11 to the Iraqi election in 2005 by Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer
  • Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television, a multidisciplinary examination of cultural responses following 9/11

Additional Nonfiction

Significant nonfiction titles consist of:

  • 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
  • 9/11 And The Art Of Happiness
  • 9/11: The Big Lie
  • 9-11, authored by Noam Chomsky
  • Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive
  • American Ground
  • At the Center of the Storm
  • Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
  • The CIA and September 11
  • 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
  • Known and Unknown: A Memoir
  • 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
  • State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
  • Terror and Liberalism
  • The Terror Timeline
  • The Trigger: The Lie That Changed the World
  • Welcome to the Desert of the Real
  • The War on Terror: The Plot to Rule the Middle East
  • The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006

See also

References

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