A book that takes place during a single day Category Description A book that takes place during the course of a single day or 24 hour period. Also known as circadian novels. This can include reminiscences and flashbacks, but the majority of events must be rooted in the “present” and take place over the course of that day.

Adult Fiction Non-Fiction • The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee Arudpragasam • The Day That Went Missing: A Family’s Story by • Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Richard Beard • Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard • October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day That • Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll Changed the World by Martin E. Marty • The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen • Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown • The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare • The Hours by Michael Cunningham • The Tempest by William Shakespeare • Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk • That Day in Dallas: Three Photographers Capture • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. on Film the Day President Kennedy Died by Richard Dick B. Trask • April Morning by Howard Fast • Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by • Guapa by Saleem Haddad David Von Drehle • The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid • One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary • Next by James Hynes 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten • A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood • Ulysses by James Joyce Teen • Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman • Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi • The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life by Tara • Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester Altebrando • Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry • Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher • Embers by Sandor Marai • Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn • Solar Bones by Mike McCormack and David Levithan • On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan • Sam & Ilsa’s Last Hurrah by Rachel Cohn and • Saturday by Ian McEwan David Levithan • If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon • Where She Went by Gayle Forman McGregor • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster • After Dark by Haruki Murakami • Sick by Tom Leveen • Hogfather by Terry Pratchett • Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger • Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders • The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum- • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Ucci Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick • The Light of Day by Graham Swift • 23 Minutes by Vivian Vande Velde • Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler • Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia • The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike • The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf