New York City has an awful lot going for it. Three of its most remarkable features are its amazing landmarks and cultural institutions, the diversity of its neighborhoods, and, of course, the flourishing literary communities in these neighborhoods that pull it all together. Famously, New York is one of those rare places where you can walk a single mile and experience several unique, rare, and special places one after the other. What's more, the people you'll meet along the way are equally as unique, rare, and special (also: weird) as the spaces they inhabit. It's no wonder that New York is one of the most written-about places on the planet! Whether you're into the grit and grime of the seedy underbelly of New York, or the romantic adventures offered up by its most beautiful places, there's a novel out there waiting to give you a glimpse of what NYC has going on.

For the reader who just can't get enough of those busy city streets, or is just dying to know where exactly in the five boroughs their favorite characters are inhabiting, here is a list of famous New York City-based novels according to the neighborhood in which they take place—complete with an interactive map of nearby landmarks and attractions!

Manhattan

Financial District

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

Nearby: Battery Park, Wall Street

World Trade Center

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Nearby: 9/11 Memorial Plaza, City Hall, Brooklyn Bridge

Chinatown

Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin

Chinatown Beat by Henry Chang

Nearby: Columbus Park, Canal Street

The Bowery

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

Nearby: The Tenement Museum

Five Points

The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsey Faye

Lower East Side

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

Lush Life by Richard Price

Nearby: The Williamsburg Bridge, Katz's Delicatessen

SoHo

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Nearby: Art Galleries, Luxury Boutiques

Alphabet City

Call It Sleep by Henry Roth

Nearby: Tompkins Square Park, Union Square

Greenwich Village

Great Jones Street by Don Delillo

Washington Square by Henry James

Nearby: Washington Square Park, New York University, Cooper Union, St. Mark' s Place, The Public Theater

Flatiron District

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Nearby: The Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park, Empire State Building

Gramercy

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Chelsea

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

Nearby: The Chelsea Hotel, The Highline

Midtown

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nearby: Grand Central Station, Bryant Park, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, The Crysler Building, The United Nations

Times Square

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Nearby: Theater District, Restaurant Row, Port Authority

Fifth Avenue

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Nearby: Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall

Central Park

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Nearby: The Central Park Zoo, The Central Park Carousel, Strawberry Fields, Belvedere Castle, The Boathouse

Upper East Side

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Nearby: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim, Gracie Mansion

Upper West Side

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Open City by Teju Cole

Nearby: The American Museum of Natural History, The Dakota

Morningside Heights

Harlem

Brooklyn

Greenpoint

The Astral by Kate Christensen

Williamsburg

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall

Nearby: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute

Downtown Brooklyn

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Nearby: BAM, Barclay's Center, Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Heights

10:04 by Ben Lerner

Nearby: Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights Promenade

Boerum Hill

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

Nearby: New York City Transit Museum, Prospect Park

Park Slope

The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster

Snow in August by Pete Hamill

Flatbush/Ditmas Park

Sunset Park/Bay Ridge

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

Nearby: Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park, Dyker Beach Golf Course

Brighton Beach

The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman

Queens

Astoria

The Ask by Sam Lipsyte

Sunnyside

Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem

Flushing

Native Speaker by Chang Rae Lee

Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish

Nearby: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, World's Fair Playground, Citi Field

Woodside

We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

Nearby: Museum of the Moving Image, Queensboro Bridge

Rockaway Beach

Rockaway by Tara Ison

Bronx

South Bronx

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Nearby: Yankee Stadium

University Heights

Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow

West Bronx/Fordham

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Nearby: Fordham University, Bronx Zoo

Staten Island

Port Richmond

Small Mercies by Eddie Joyce

The Swing Voter of Staten Island by Arthur Neresian

Nearby: Statue of Liberty, Staten Island Ferry, Snug Harbor, Verrazano Bridge

Is this map missing something? Let us know in the comments section!