Around the World in 80 Books discussion
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1. North America, USA Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (set in a science fiction location) (1/11/12)2. North America, California The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (2/4/12)
14. North America, Nevada
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
18. Europe, Belgium
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.This book is one of the new additions to the list in the 2012 version of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. In addition to Belgium, settings are also California, Hawaii, England, a futuristic Korea, and various islands during a South Pacific voyage. There are six nested stories, each in different locations, in this book.
19. North America, New York
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.Read 6/20/12. This is another new addition to the 2012 list. The book is mainly set in New York and California.
26. Europe (fictional location, English author)
Animal Farm by George Orwell.27. Europe, England
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
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1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
3.Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
4.Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
5.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6.Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7.Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
8.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
9.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
10.In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
11.Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
12.The Godfather by Mario Puzo
13.The Quiet American by Graham Greene
14.Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
15.The Collector by John Fowles
16.Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
17.Life of Pi by Yann Martel
18.The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
19.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
20.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
21.Saturday by Ian McEwan
22.The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
23.The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
24.Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
25.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
26.Silas Marner by George Eliot
27.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
28.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
29.The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
30.The Color Purple by Alice Walker
31.The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
32.The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
33.Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
34.Walden by Henry David Thoreau