City on Fire is a 2015 novel by Garth Risk Hallberg, published by Alfred A.

[4][5] City on Fire follows the investigation of a Central Park shooting that took place on New Year's Eve during the 1970s.

[7] Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times described it as "an amazing virtual reality machine", and credited Hallberg with an "instinctive gift for spinning suspense not just out of dovetailing plotlines and odd Dickensian coincidences but also from secrets buried in his characters' pasts".

On the other hand, Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post called it "overhyped" and "a steaming pile of literary dung".

[12] City on Fire debuted at #5 on The New York Times Bestseller list in the hardcover fiction category on November 1, 2015.