Books set in London, United Kingdom

United Kingdom — London

2022
Londres
Louis-Ferdinand Céline · novel · 2022
1915: Céline’s lost novel, among pimps and deserters in London’s underworld.
2021
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak · novel · 2021
1974: a Greek and a Turkish Cypriot meet secretly in a Nicosia tavern.
2019
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo · novel · 2019
Twelve Black British women, most of them Londoners, across a century of lives.
2005
Saturday
Ian McEwan · novel · 2005
A London surgeon’s Saturday collides with the march against the Iraq war.
2003
Brick Lane
Monica Ali · novel · 2003
A young Bangladeshi bride builds a life in a tower block off Brick Lane.
2000
White Teeth
Zadie Smith · novel · 2000
1975–1999: two wartime friends and their families in multicultural north London.
1933
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell · memoir · 1933
Orwell washes dishes in Paris hotel kitchens, then tramps across London.
1925
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · novel · 1925
One June day, Clarissa Dalloway walks through London to buy flowers for her party.
1907
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad · novel · 1907
1886: an anarchist plot to bomb Greenwich goes wrong in the fogs of London.
1890
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · novel · 1890
A beautiful young man stays young in London while his portrait ages.
1887
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle · crime · 1887
Holmes and Watson meet in London and solve their first case together.
1838
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens · novel · 1838
An orphan falls in with Fagin’s gang of boy thieves in London.