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
"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 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:
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
Mathé, Sylvie; Vallas, Sophie (2014). European perspectives on the literature of 9/11. Paris: Michel Houdiard Editeur. ISBN978-2-35692-112-3. OCLC878664251.
British and American Representations of 9/11. Literature, Politics and the Media by Oana Celia Gheorghiu, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
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]
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