Where in the World?

Where in the World?: Some reading friends and I were discussing how fun it is to track where our books take us as armchair travelers.  Because I read a lot of nonfiction and world literature, I have tracked this in the past on an annual basis.  This year I have decided to add a page to the blog and make it an ongoing thing.  If the setting moves during the novel, I will only use the primary setting.  In some cases, there is not a setting distinctive to the book or it is set in many locales; in that case the book won't be listed here.  As I have time, I will go back through past reads and add them to the lists.

Austria: The Doctor's Plague by Sherwin B. Nuland (Vienna)
Argentina: The Book of Murder by Guierm
Burma: A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Congo: Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen by Lisa Shannon
Croatia: Girl at War by Sara Nović
Czechoslovakia: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Cuba: The Other Side of Paradise by Julia Cook
Egypt: Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
England: After You by Jojo Moyes
England: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
England: Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
England: I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella (London)
England: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (Edgecombe St. Mary)
France: The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Germany: The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager
India: Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran
Indonesia: The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Indonesia: Prophet of Bones by Ted Kosmatka
Israel: The Attack by Yasmina Khadra (Tel Aviv)
Italy: A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Jamaica: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marion James
Japan: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro 
Palestine: The Way to the Spring by Ben Ehrenreich

Where in the United States?: This is similar to the above list, but tracks the state of the Union where a book is set.
Alaska: To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
Connecticut: Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
Connecticut: Vision in White by Nora Roberts 
Indiana: The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore (Plainview)
Indiana: A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel (Mooreland)
Kentucky: The Bourbon Kings by J. R. Ward
New York: The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (New York City)
New York: The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin (New York City)
New York: Time and Again by Jack Finney (New York City)
Texas: The Son by Philipp Meyer
Washington: Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (Seattle)


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