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Books Set in Connecticut: Books Set in Connecticut by Genre

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies...The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R. Martin 

Thrillers and Mysteries Set in Connecticut 

Link to Vultures at Twilight by Charles Atkins in Catalog
Link to Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult in Catalog
Link to Murder off the Page by Con Lehane
Link to The Sea Glass Murders by Timothy Cole in Catalog
Link to Westport by James Comey in Catalog
Link to The Wife Stalker by Liv Constantine in Catalog
Link to The Blood Red Indian Summer by David Handler in Catalog
Link to The Accident by Linwood Barclay in Catalog
Link to Diet of Death by Ang Pomeno in Catalog

Historical Fiction set in Connecticut

Link to Not our Kind by Kitty Zeldis in Catalog
Link to The Aviator's wife by Melanie Benjamin in Catalog
Link to Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay in catalog
Link to The Lost Diary of Venice by Margaux DeRoux in Catalog
Link The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames in Catalog
Link to The Great Gatsby by Fscot Fitzgerald
Link to How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller in Catalog
Link to On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Coean Vuong
Link to The Winthrop Woman by Anya Secton in Catalog
Link to Mark Twain : Historical Romances : Prince & the Pauper / Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Domestic Fiction Set in Connecticut

Link to Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates in Catalog
Link to Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel in Catalog
Link to The Pessimists by Bethany Ball in Catalog
Link to The Land of Steady Habits by Ted Thompson in Catalog
Link to Mystic Sumer by Hannah Mckinnon in Catalog
Link to Family Pictures by Jane Green in Catalog
Link to We Are Water by Wally Lamb in Catalog
Link to The Numbers Game by Danielle Steel in Catalog
Link The End of the Day by Bill Clegy in Catalog
Link to The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin

Romance Novels Set in Connecticut

Link to a Perfect Proposal by Katie Fforde in Catalog
Link to The Wedding Thief by Mary Simses in Catalog
Link to Falling: A Love Story by Jane Green in Catalog
Link to Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts in Catolog

Science Fiction/Horror Set in Connecticut

Link to The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin in Catalog
Link to Floating Dragon by Peter Straub in Catalog
Link to Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi in Catalog
Link to Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo in Catalog
Link to Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca in Catalog

Non-Fiction Books Set in Connecticut

Link to Cartoon County By Cullen Murphy in Catalog
Link to Westport by the Westport Historical Society in Catalog
Link to The Circus Fire by Stan O'nan in Catalog
Link to Connecticut Made by Cynthia Parzych
Link Westport, Connecticut by Woody Klein in Catalog
Link to Speaking Ill Of The Dead: Jerks in Connecticut Ray Bendici,
Link An American theatre : the story of Westport Country Playhouse, 1931-2005 / Richard Somerset-Ward in Catalog
Link to Graveyard: The True Hauntings from an Old New England Cemetery in Catalog
Link to Boats against the Current in by Richard Webb Jr. In Catalog