River-Related Novels
 | Austin, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. |
| Axler, James. Emerald Fire. [Amazon Basin-Futuristic Fiction] |
| Balf, Todd. The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-La. |
| Beecher, Raymond. Under Three Flags: A Hudson River Story. |
| Bingham, Sallie. Upstate: A Novel. [Hudson River] |
| Blevins, Win. The Snake River. (Rivers West, Book 8) |
| Boll, Heinrich. Women in a River Landscape: A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies. |
| Boulle, Pierre. The Bridge over the River Kwai. |
| Brewer, James D. No Bottom. [Mississippi River-Historical Mystery] |
| --. No Escape. [Mississippi River-Historical Mystery] |
| --. No Justice. [Mississippi River-Historical Mystery] |
| --. No Remorse. [Mississippi River-Historical Mystery] |
| --. No Virtue. [Mississippi River-Historical Mystery] |
| Cable, George Washington. Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi. |
| Carpentier, Alejo. The Lost Steps. [Orinoco Basin] |
| Chapygin, Alekseaei. Stepan Razin: A Novel. [Volga River] |
| Chesbro, George C. An Incident at Bloodtide: A Mongo Mystery. [Hudson River] |
| Clarke, Breena. River Cross My Heart. |
| Coffman, Virginia. Fire Dawn: A Novel. [Ohio River] |
| Conrad, Joseph. Almayer's Folly: A Story of a Eastern River. |
| --. Heart of Darkness. [Congo River] |
| --. Lord Jim. |
| --. The Nigger of the Narcissus. |
| Cooper James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. |
| Crais, Robert. Voodoo River. [Mystery] |
| Deaver, Jeff. Bloody River Blues: A Location Scout Mystery. [Missouri River] |
| Deutermann, Peter T. Trainman. [Mississippi River-Thriller] |
| Dickey, James. Deliverance. |
| Didion, Joan. Run River. |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Lost World. [Amazon Region] |
| Duncan, David James. The River Why. |
| Eckert, Allan W. The Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley. |
| --. The Frontiersmen: A Narrative. [Ohio River] |
| Elwood, Roger. Riversong: A Novel. |
| Endo, Shusaku. Deep River. [Ganges] |
| Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. |
| Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope. Offshore. [The Thames River] |
| Flanagan, Richard. Death of a River Guide. |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. |
| Goonan, Kathleen Ann. Mississippi Blues. |
| Greene, Annie. Bright River Trilogy. |
| Gullick, Bill. Roll On, Columbia: To the Pacific, a Historical Novel, Book 1. |
| --. Roll On, Columbia: Through the Cascades, a Historical Novel, Book 2. |
| --. Roll On, Columbia: Into the Desert, a Historical Novel, Book 3. |
| Guthrie, A.B., Jr. The Big Sky. [Missouri] |
| Haidar, Qurratulain. River of Fire. [Urdu Fiction] |
| Heck, Peter J. Death on the Mississippi: A Mark Twain Mystery. |
| --. The Mysterious Strangler. |
| Hemingway, Ernest. Across the River and into the Trees. |
| Hesse, Herman. Siddhartha. |
| Hoffman, Alice. The River King. |
| Hoyt, Richard. Arwin's Secret: A Novel of the Amazon. |
| Irving, Washington. Journals and Notebooks. [Hudson River] |
| --. Legend of Sleepy Hollow. [Hudson River] |
| --. Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories. [Hudson River] |
| Isherwood, Christopher. A Metting by the River. |
| James, Henry. The Ambassadors. |
| Jekel, Pamela. River without End: A Novel of the Suwannee. |
| Johnston, Denis. The Moon in the Yellow River. |
| Jones, Bernard. Swift Flows the River: A Magnificent Novel about the Columbia River. |
| Kenny, Kathryn. Trixie Belden and the Hudson River Mystery. |
| Kincaid, Jamaica. At the Bottom of the River. |
| Korelitz, Jean Hanff. The Sabbathday River. |
| Kornblatt, Joyce Reiser. The Reason for Wings [Danube River] |
| Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners. |
| Lesley, Craig. River Song. [Columbia River-Native American] |
| MacLean, Norman. A River Runs through It. |
| Mahfouz, Naguib. Adrift on the Nile. |
| Mailer, Norman. Ancient Evenings. [Nile] |
| Matthiessen, Peter. At Play in the Fields of the Lord. [Amazon Basin] |
| McCann, Colum. Fishing the Sloe-Black River. [Short Stories] |
| McCoy, Maureen. Divining Blood. [Mississippi River] |
| McCullough, David Willis. Think on Death: A Hudson Valley Mystery. |
| Melville, Herman. The Confidence Man. |
| Mehta, Gita. A River Sutra. |
| Michaels, Lisa. Grand Ambition. [Colorado River] |
| Moquist, Richard. Eye of the Agency: A Sadie Greenstreet Mystery. |
| Morgan, Clay. Santiago and the Drinking Party. [Amazon Region] |
| Morrison, Toni. Beloved. |
| --. Sula. |
| Naipaul, V.S. A Bend in the River. |
| Ngugi, James. The River Between. |
| Owens, Louis. Dark River. [Native American Mystery] |
| Owens, Peter. Rips. [St. Lawrence River] |
| Pelecanos, George P. Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go. [Mystery] |
| Rios, Stevie. Playing for Keeps. [Amazon] |
| See, Carolyn. Rhine Maidens. |
| Sherman, Jory. The Columbia River: A Rivers West Novel. |
| Sholokhov, Mikhail. And Quiet Flows the Don. |
| --. The Don Flows Home to the Sea. |
| --. Harvest on the Don. |
| Sinclair, Iain. Downriver (Or, the Vessels of Wrath: A Narrative in Twelve Tales). [Thames River] |
| Smith, Wilbur A. River God. [Nile] |
| Souza, Marcio. Emperor of the Amazon. |
| --. Mad Maria. |
| Starobinski, Jean. Water-Wheels: The Factory on the River. |
| Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. |
| Taine, John. The Iron Star. [Congo River] |
| Thiongo, Ngugi-Wa. River Between. |
| Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. |
| Vesely, James M. Coon Creek: A Novel of the Mississippi River Bottoms. |
| Wharton, Edith. Hudson River Bracketed. |
| Winegardner, Mark. Crooked River Burning. [Cleveland] |
| Wolfe, Thomas. Of Time and the River. |
| Zeromski, Stefan. The Faithful River. |