List of books about the September 11 attacks

This is an incomplete list of books about the September 11 attacks. In the more than 10 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, dozens of books have been published that focus specifically on the topic or on subtopics such as just the attacks on World Trade Towers in New York City.

A number of publications have released their own rankings of books about 9-11. The Guardian, in September 2011, provided a listing by three panelists of what they felt to be the 20 best.^[1] Five books were identified as best by another September 2011 review in TODAY.^[2] Research-oriented books have also been reviewed.^[3]

Richard Gray's After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11 reviews novels about September 11. According to a book reviewer, Gray "views 9/11 under the spectrum of the Fall, a 'recurrent tendency in American writing…to identify crisis as a descent from innocence to experience [and] reinstates it in the context of national narrative and builds a strong argument that American literature since 9/11 has been a literature of crisis which mixes the strange with the familiar."^[4]

Fiction

Novels include:

• The Memory of Things, 2016 novel by American author Gae Polisner
• All We Have Left], 2016 novel by American author Wendy Mills
• Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story, 2016 novel by American author Nora Raleigh Baskin
• 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
• 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 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
• Saturday, 2005 "post 9/11" novel by English writer Ian McEwan
• The Submission
• The Things They Left Behind
• We All Fall Down, by Eric Walters
• Windows on the World
• United States of Banana, dramatic novel by Giannina Braschi

Collections of poetry and/or short stories include:

Non-fiction

Reviews of literature

Reviews of fiction and other literature include:

• Mathé, Sylvie; Vallas, Sophie (2014). European perspectives on the literature of 9/11. Paris: Michel Houdiard Editeur. ISBN 9782356921123. OCLC 878664251.
• After the Fall, by Robert 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
• In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, 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

Other nonfiction

Nonfiction books include:

• 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, published January, 2005, a finalist in National Book Awards. Reports on struggle within the twin towers of the World Trade Center during the 102 minutes between first impact to the second collapse.^[5][6]
• 9/11: The Big Lie
• 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 (book)
• Debunking 9/11 Myths
• In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir
• The Mystery of September 11 and the State Lotteries by Harold Rosen, Published by AuthorHouse, February 2016
• In the Shadow of No Towers
• Known and Unknown: A Memoir
• Leadership (book)
• The Little Chapel That Stood
• Longitudes and Attitudes
• The New Patriotism Series
• The New Pearl Harbor
• State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
• Terror and Liberalism
• The Terror Timeline
• Welcome to the Desert of the Real
• With Every Mistake

See also

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

References

1. "The 20 best 9/11 books". The Guardian. September 2, 2011.
2. "Five must-read books about 9/11 and its legacy". www.today.com. September 8, 2011.
3. "9-11 Research: Books: the World Trade Center Attack". 911research.wtc7.net.
4. Angeliki Tseti (2012). "Book review: After the Fall". European Journal of American Studies. 7 (2).
5. Herbert, Rosemary (2005). "The longest `102 Minutes'; Reporters' tale a riveting personal glimpse of Sept. 11 tragedy.(Arts and Lifestyle)". The Boston Herald. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
6. "9/11 Remembered As 102 Minutes.(Breaking News and Opinion)(Book review)". Basil & Spice. 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2012.

External links

• Book:September 11 attacks, a Wikipedia book.