Timeline
- 1850s
- The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green (Cuthbert M. Bede, in three parts: 1850s)
- 1860s
- The Old Parish Church: with the Ghost of Merton Hall (John Gibbs, 1861)
- Tom Brown at Oxford (Thomas Hughes, 1861)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
- 1870s
- Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll, 1871)
- Cripps the Carrier (Richard Doddridge Blackmore, 1876) — author of Lorna Doone
- 1880s
- Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome, 1889) — a journey from Kingston to Oxford on the River Thames
- 1890s
- A Young Oxford Maid (Sarah Tytler, 1890)
- Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895) — Oxford is called "Christminster"
- 1900s
- A Clerk of Oxford (E. Everett-Green, 1900)
- Red Paint at Oxford ("Pish" and "Tush", 1904)
- The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908) — Grahame is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford
- With the King at Oxford: A Tale of the Great Rebellion (Rev. Alfred J. Church, 1909)
- 1910s
- Zuleika Dobson (Max Beerbohm, 1911)
- 1920s
- The Charm of Oxford (Joseph Wells, 1920) — Warden of Wadham College, Oxford
- 1930s
- A Storm in Oxford (E. Tangye Lean, 1932)
- Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers, 1935)
- Death at the President's Lodgings (Michael Innes, 1936)
- The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937) — written at 20 Northmoor Road, North Oxford
- An Oxford University Chest (John Betjeman, 1938)
- Towers in the Mist (Elizabeth Goudge, 1938)
- 1940s
- The Case of the Gilded Fly (Edmund Crispin, 1944)
- The Silent Traveller in Oxford (Chiang Yee, 1944)
- Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh, 1945)
- Folly Bridge: A Romantic Tale (David Leslie Murray, 1945)
- Jill (Philip Larkin, 1946)
- The Moving Toyshop (Edmund Crispin, 1946)
- 1950s
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis, 1950) — first book in The Chronicles of Narnia series
- Fred of Oxford (Fred Bickerton, 1953)
- The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien, three volumes: 1954–55) — mostly written at 20 Northmoor Road; see also film trilogy
- Landscape with Dead Dons (Robert Robinson, 1956)
- Oxford Folly (Louis McIntosh, 1956)
- 1960s
- Summoned by Bells (John Betjeman, 1960)
- Dame's Delight (Margaret Forster, 1964)
- Accident (Nicholas Mosley), 1965
- The Game (A. S. Byatt, 1967)
- 1970s
- Last Boat to Folly Bridge (Eric C. Hiscock, 1970)
- The House in Norham Gardens (Penelope Lively, 1974) — set in Norham Gardens, North Oxford
- A Staircase in Surrey (J. I. M. Stewart, 1974–78) — a five novel series
- Last Bus to Woodstock (Colin Dexter, 1977) — first book in the Inspector Morse series
- 1980s
- The Alchemists (Margaret Doody, 1980)
- Death of a Don (Howard Shaw, 1981)
- The Book and the Brotherhood (Iris Murdoch, 1983)
- Oxford Blood (Antonia Fraser, 1985)
- Where the Rivers Meet (John Wain, 1988)
- 1990s
- Dirty Tricks (Michael Dibdin, 1991)
- The Children of Men (P. D. James, 1992)
- Doomsday Book (Connie Willis, 1992)
- The Men and the Girls (Joanna Trollope, 1992)
- Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Sue Townsend, 1993)
- You'll Never Be Here again (Mark Blackaby, 1993)
- Dancing to the Pipers (Kate Fenton, 1993)
- Juggling (Barbara Trapido, 1994)
- Oxford Exit (Veronica Stallwood, 1994)
- His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman, trilogy: 1995, 1997, 2000)
- Dangerous Games (Jodie Sinclair, 1997)
- The Devil's Hunt (Paul Doherty, 1997)
- An Instance of the Fingerpost (Iain Pears, 1997)
- The Poison Tree (Tony Strong, 1997)
- To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis, 1997)
- The Greatest Sorrow (Keith Ovenden, 1998)
- The Travelling Hornplayer (Barbara Trapido, 1998)
- The Significance of Bluebells (Cilla Lancelyn Green, 1999)
- Oxford Shift (Veronica Stallwood, 1999)
- 2000s
- The Remorseful Day (Colin Dexter, 2000) — last book in the Inspector Morse series
- Oxford Shadows (Veronica Stallwood, 2001)
- Another Kind of Cinderella (Angela Huth, 2002)
- Any Human Heart (William Boyd, 2002)
- Bleak Midwinter (Peter Millar, 2002)
- Lyra's Oxford (Philip Pullman, 2003)
- The Oxford Murders (Guillermo Martínez, 2003) — also a 2008 film
- Restless (William Boyd, 2006)
- A Death in Oxford (Richard MacAndrew, 2007)
- The September Society (Charles Finch, 2008)
- 2010s
- The Lessons (Naomi Alderman, 2010)
- The Oxford Virus (Adam Kolczynski, 2010)
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