Place


Dune (Dune, #1)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch, #7)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola RotimiAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
Books Set in Nigeria
200 books — 111 voters

Out of the Silence by Marie TheodoreProud American by Sergio A TinocoHeidi by Johanna SpyriAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Strong Sense of Place
200 books — 39 voters
Wood, Talc And Mr. J by Chris   RoseMagic America by C.E. MedfordFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithComing up for Air by George Orwell
Fictional Novels About Nostalgia
26 books — 29 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithSet the Night on Fire by Mike  Davis
Books With Place Names in the Title
1,011 books — 95 voters

Vera Nazarian
“ If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. ”
― Vera Nazarian

Hugh of Saint-Victor
“ It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his ...more ”
― Hugh of Saint Victor, The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts

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Of place and space (VerySpatial) A book club dedicated to popular Geography themed books. We will discuss a book a month.
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