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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“Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,—being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A transition from an author’s books to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples, and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendor, grandeur, and magnificence; but, when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I do not hesitate to read ... all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable—any real insight or broad human sentiment.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)