List of fiction set in Toronto

A list of fiction set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in whole or in part.

Novels

 * Lovers and Strangers by Joyce Marshall (1957)
 * The Meeting Point by Austin Clarke (1967)
 * Cabbagetown by Hugh Garner (1968)
 * The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (1969)
 * Cabbagetown Diary: A Documentary by Juan Butler (1970)
 * A Fine and Private Place by Morley Callaghan (1975)
 * The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký (1977, Translated 1984)
 * Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood (1979)
 * The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies (1981)
 * The Martyrology Book 5 by B. P. Nichol (1982)
 * Fables of Brunswick Avenue by Katherine Govier (1985)
 * What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies (1985)
 * In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (1987)
 * Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1988)
 * The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies (1988)
 * Born To Lose (novella and stories) by Trevor Clark (author) (1989)
 * Killshot by Elmore Leonard (1989)
 * A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1989)
 * Barking Dogs by Terence M. Green (1989)
 * Losing Joe's Place by Gordon Korman (1990)
 * Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies (1991)
 * Blood Price (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1991)
 * No New Land by M. G. Vassanji (1991)
 * Blood Trail (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1992)
 * Blood Lines (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1993)
 * Blood Pact (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1993)
 * Headhunter by Timothy Findley (1993)
 * The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (1993)
 * The Innocence of Age by Neil Bissoondath (1993)
 * The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies (1994)
 * How Insensitive by Russell Smith (1994)
 * Deadly by Nature by Meredith Andrew (1995)
 * The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer (1995)
 * Moonlit Days and Nights by D. H. Toole (1995)
 * Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996)
 * Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1996)
 * To Dance At The Palais Royale by Jane McNaughton (1996)
 * Blood Debt (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1997)
 * Blue Limbo by Terence M. Green (1997)
 * Buying On Time by Antanas Sileika (1997)
 * Where She Has Gone by Nino Ricci (1997)
 * "1978" by Daniel Jones (1998)
 * Brown Girl in the Ring Nalo Hopkinson (1998)
 * Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer (1998)
 * Noise by Russell Smith (1998)
 * Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask by Jim Munroe (1999) ISBN 9780380810437
 * A Witness to Life by Terence M. Green (1999)
 * Sanctuary & Other Stories by Jennifer Duncan (1999)
 * The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush (2000)
 * The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)
 * Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer (2000) ISBN 0812580354
 * Courage My Love by Sarah Dearing (2001)
 * Thirsty by Dionne Brand (2001)
 * Margery Looks Up by Meredith Andrew (2002)
 * Back Flip by Anne Denoon (2002)
 * Making a Killing by Warren Dunford (2002)
 * The Neanderthal Parallax by Robert J. Sawyer
 * Hominids (2002)
 * Humans (2003)
 * Hybrids (2003)
 * Cat's Crossing by Bill Cameron (2003)
 *  The Double by Philip Quinn (2003)
 * Doctor Bloom's Story by Don Cole (2004)
 * Death in the Age of Steam by Mel Bradshaw (2004)
 * An opening act of unspeakable evil by Jim Munroe (2004) ISBN 9780968636336
 * The City Man by Howard Ackler (2005)
 * Gently Down the Stream by Ray Robertson (2005)
 * What We All Long For by Dionne Brand (2005)
 * Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)(available online)
 * The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke by Steven Hayward (2005)
 * Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
 * How Happy to Be by Katrina Onstad (2006)
 * Consolation by Michael Redhill (2006)
 * Blood Bank (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (2008)
 * Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig (2008)
 * Barnacle Love by Anthony de Sa (2008)
 * Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving (2009) ISBN 9780307398369
 * "The Carnivore" by Mark Sinnett (2009)
 * Dragging The River by Trevor Clark (2009)
 * Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall (2009)
 * The Charlie Salter mysteries by Eric Wright
 * The Jane Yeats mystery series by Liz Brady
 * Ghosted by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall (2010)
 * Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg (2010)
 * Love On The Killing Floor by Trevor Clark (2010)
 * Six Metres of Pavement by Farzana Doctor (2011)
 * The Guilty Plea by Robert Rotenberg (2011)
 * Dawn at the Royal Star by Jeff Sinasac (2011)
 * Stray Bullets by Robert Rotenberg (2012)
 * Kicking the Sky by Anthony de Sa (2013)
 * Stranglehold by Robert Rotenberg (2013)
 * The Placebo Effect (Junction Chronicles) by David Rotenberg (2013)
 * A Murder of Crows (Junction Chronicles) by David Rotenberg (2013)
 * Dream Caster by Najeev Raj Nadarajah (2013)
 * The Glass House (Junction Chronicles) by David Rotenberg (2014)
 * The Cheese Stealer's Handbook by Shoshaku Jushaku (2014)
 * Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
 * Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (2015)
 * The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2015)
 * The Society of Experience by Matt Cahill (2015)
 * The Hidden Keys by Andre Alexis (2016)
 * Ghost Pains by Alan Michael Beau (2016)
 * The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2016)
 * Heart of the City by Robert Rotenberg (2017)
 * Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2017)
 * A Death in Sarajevo by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2017)
 * A Dangerous Crossing by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2018)
 * The Grimoire of Kensington Market by Lauren B. Davis (2018)
 * Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill (2017)
 * Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (2018)
 * The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (2019)
 * A Deadly Divide by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2019)
 * The Diamond Queen of Singapore by Ian Hamilton (2020) The Ava Lee Series
 *  The Bank Street Peeper by Erma Odrach (2021)
 * Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury (2022)
 * Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury (2022)

Graphic novels

 * Jellaby: Monster in the City by Kean Soo (2009)
 * Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley (2004–2010)
 * Skim by Mariko Tamaki (2008)

Short stories

 * Toronto Short Stories by Morris Wolfe and Douglas Daymond (1977)
 * Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories by Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald (1990)
 * "People One Knows: Toronto Stories" by Daniel Jones (1994)
 * This Ain't No Healing Town by Barry Callaghan (1995)
 * Canada Geese and Apple Chatney by Sasenarine Persaud (1998)
 * Concrete Forest by Hal Niedzviecki (1998)
 * Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis (2004)
 * Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood (2014)
 * Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis (2019)
 * Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta (2019)
 * The Vinyl Cafe series by Stuart McLean
 * 1995 – Stories from the Vinyl Cafe
 * 1996 – When We Were Young: A Collection of Canadian Stories
 * 1998 – Home from the Vinyl Cafe
 * 2001 – Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
 * 2003 – Vinyl Cafe Diaries
 * 2005 – Stories from the Vinyl Cafe 10th Anniversary Edition
 * 2006 – Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe
 * 2006 – Dave Cooks the Turkey
 * 2009 – Extreme Vinyl Café
 * 2010 – The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks
 * 2012 – Revenge of The Vinyl Cafe
 * 2013 – Time Now For The Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange
 * 2015 – Vinyl Cafe Turns the Page

TV series

 * Airwaves
 * Alias Grace
 * The Arrow
 * The Associates
 * Being Erica
 * Billable Hours
 * Bitten
 * Blood Ties
 * Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
 * Blue Murder
 * The Border
 * Captain Flamingo
 * The City
 * Connor Undercover
 * Cracked
 * Da Kink in My Hair
 * Degrassi, including:
 * The Kids of Degrassi Street
 * Degrassi Junior High
 * Degrassi High
 * Degrassi: The Next Generation
 * Degrassi: Next Class
 * The Detail
 * Diamonds
 * Dino Dan
 * Dino Dana
 * Drop the Beat
 * E.N.G.
 * Flashpoint
 * Forever Knight
 * Frankie Drake Mysteries
 * The Great Detective
 * Hangin' In, 1981–1987
 * The Indian Detective
 * King
 * Kim's Convenience
 * King of Kensington, 1975–1980
 * Kenny vs. Spenny
 * Life With Derek
 * Liberty Street
 * The Line
 * The Listener
 * Mary Kills People
 * Material World
 * Metropia
 * Murdoch Mysteries
 * The Next Step
 * The Newsroom
 * Nirvanna the Band the Show
 * Once a Thief
 * Orphan Black
 * Our Hero
 * Private Eyes
 * Pure Pwnage
 * Ransom
 * Really Me
 * ReGenesis
 * Remedy
 * Riverdale
 * Rookie Blue
 * Saving Hope
 * Secret Millionaires Club
 * Seeing Things
 * Side Effects
 * Straight Up
 * Street Legal
 * This Is Wonderland
 * Total Drama Island
 * Traders
 * Train 48
 * Twitch City
 * Wojeck
 * Workin' Moms
 * The Zack Files

Film

 * The Adjuster (1991)
 * Ararat (2002)
 * The Art of Woo (2001)
 * Blood and Donuts (1995)
 * Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)
 * Breakfast with Scot (2007)
 * Calendar (1993)
 * Camilla(1994)
 * Canadian Bacon (1995)
 * Childstar (2004)
 * Chloe (2009)
 * Circle of Two (1981)
 * Citizen Gangster (2011)
 * Crash (1996)
 * Dead Ringers (1988)
 * Deadly Eyes (1982)
 * Down the Road Again (2011)
 * Dr. Cabbie (2014)
 * Driven (2001)
 * Enemy (2013)
 * Every Day (2018)
 * Exotica (1994)
 * The F Word (2013)
 * Foolproof (2003)
 * Goin' Down the Road (1970)
 * Going the Distance (2004)
 * H (1990)
 * Highpoint (1982)
 * Hollywood North (2003)
 * How She Move (2007)
 * The Hurricane (1999)
 * I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
 * Ivory Tower (2010)
 * Khaled (2001)
 * The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
 * Last Night (1998)
 * Let's All Hate Toronto (2007)
 * The Love Guru (2008)
 * Monkey Warfare (2006)
 * My Life Without Me (2003)
 * Picture Day (2012)
 * One Week (2008)
 * Owning Mahowny (2003)
 * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
 * The Silent Partner (1978)
 * Sugar (2004)
 * Take This Waltz (2011)
 * This Movie Is Broken (2010)
 * The Uncles (2000)
 * Toronto Stories (2008)
 * Turning Red (2022)
 * Videodrome (1983)
 * When Night Is Falling (1995)

Overviews

 * Greg Gatenby's Toronto: A Literary Guide (McArthur, 1999) provides an encyclopaedic literary tour of Toronto places.
 * Robert Fulford’s lecture from 1996 called: "The Invention of Toronto".
 * Amy Lavender Harris' Imagining Toronto (Mansfield, 2010), a comprehensive study of literary representations of Toronto.

Novels

 * Du vieux vin dans des bouteilles neuves by Frederick J. A. Davidson (1926)
 * Ainsi parle la tour CN by Hédi Bouraoui (1999)
 * Toronto, je t’aime by Didier Leclair (2000)
 * Ce pays qui est le mien by Didier Leclair (2003)
 * 69, rue de la Luxure by Paul-François Sylvestre (2004)
 * Déclic à Toronto by Mireille Messier (2004)
 * La première guerre de Toronto by Daniel Marchildon (2010)
 * Toronto (érotique gay) by Bravery (2012)
 * Tila à Toronto by Jean-Baptiste Mubalutila Mbizi (2013)
 * Les dragouilles T.16 : Les bleues de Toronto by Karine Gottot (2016)
 * À bientôt, Toronto ! by Louis Laforce (2021)
 * Welsford by Claude Guilmain (2023)

Novels

 * Sun Bo (孙博)，《男人三十》 (Nanren sanshi) (Men in 30s). 北京：文化艺术，2000. ISBN 9787503919350
 * Yu Xi 余曦，《安大略湖畔》 (Andalue hupan) (The Shores of Lake Ontario). 北京：作家，2005. ISBN 9787506331623
 * Zhang Ling 张翎，《邮购新娘》(Dougou xinniang) (Mail order wife) 北京：作家，2004. ISBN 9787506328180

Short stories

 * Zhang Ling 张翎，《雁过澡溪》(Yan guo zaoxi) (四川成都：成都时代，2006.
 * Zhang Ling 张翎，《盲约》(Mang yue). 广东广州：花城，2005. ISBN 9787536043923
 * Zhang Ling 张翎，《尘世》(Chen shi) (The world of flesh). 广西南宁：广西人民，2004. ISBN 9787219050132

Films

 * Bollywood/Hollywood. Deepa Mehta, 2002.
 * Kismat Konnection. Aziz Mirza, 2008.

Films

 * Arasangam (2008)