Books
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby takes place on the North Shore of Long Island.
- The book The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson takes place in Amityville, sequel The Amityville Horror Part II takes place in Deer Park.
- Several books by Nelson DeMille, including Plum Island, The Gold Coast, The Charm School reference Long Island locations are take place on Long Island.
- E.L. Doctorow's novel World's Fair was set at the 1939 fair in Queens.
- Mary Gordon and Alice McDermott have written novels set in Irish-American Catholic culture of the urban and suburban areas of Long Island.
- Chang Rae-Lee set his first novel Native Speaker (1995) in the Korean-American community in Queens. His third novel Aloft was set in suburban Long Island.
- Fictional characters Joe & Frank Hardy, known as The Hardy Boys in the famous series of detective stories in both books and television, are from Bayport, Long Island.
- The book Jaws originally took place in Long Island, with Amity being a town on it rather than its own island.
- In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series Camp Half-Blood is located on Long Island.
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt takes place in 1967 Long Island.
- Montauk an autobiographic novel by the Swiss author Max Frisch, retells his love to an American woman and is situated, among other locations, in Montauk.
- Spider Robinson's Callahan books are set in a bar on Long Island.
- William Gaddis's "novel of voices" J R is set largely in Massapequa.
- Sag Harbor, a novel by Colson Whitehead, is set in the Long Island town.
- Montauk, a novel by Christopher McKittrick, is set in the Long Island town.
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