Sense of place

1

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

42,468 members

614 reviews

4.1

7 Members: Jannes, kiwiflowa, merrystar, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,133 members

286 reviews

4

6 Members: Jannes, aulsmith, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

10,167 members

324 reviews

4.1

6 Members: kiwiflowa, merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

28,768 members

539 reviews

4.2

5 Members: KimarieBee, kiwiflowa, sturlington, perennialreader, elkiedee

5

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

10,807 members

410 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

25,392 members

651 reviews

4.1

5 Members: Jannes, kiwiflowa, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

14,390 members

277 reviews

3.9

5 Members: Jannes, KimarieBee, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

8

Cannery Row

by John Steinbeck

11,227 members

216 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

7,098 members

109 reviews

3.8

5 Members: kiwiflowa, sturlington, perennialreader, elkiedee, ahef1963

10

In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson

9,860 members

246 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, KimarieBee, perennialreader, ahef1963

11

Little Town on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

11,154 members

87 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee, ahef1963

12

Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

13,937 members

198 reviews

3.8

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

13

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

90,408 members

1,561 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

14

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

15,373 members

290 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

15

The Far Pavilions

by M. M. Kaye

2,566 members

74 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963

16

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

4,211 members

306 reviews

4

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963

17

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

47,446 members

1,054 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

18

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

36,171 members

635 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee, ahef1963

19

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

15,320 members

311 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee

20

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

6,001 members

199 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

21

A Month in the Country

by J. L. Carr

3,011 members

138 reviews

4.2

3 Members: Jannes, perennialreader, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

18,891 members

577 reviews

3.9

3 Members: kiwiflowa, sturlington, ahef1963

23

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

13,303 members

338 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

24

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

10,213 members

214 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, perennialreader, elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Memoir of American and other English speaking expat literary life in 1920s Paris

25

A Town Like Alice

by Nevil Shute

4,100 members

151 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963

26

Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

9,491 members

434 reviews

4

3 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, perennialreader

27

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

10,630 members

193 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, perennialreader, ahef1963

28

The Alienist

by Caleb Carr

10,520 members

263 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, perennialreader, ahef1963

29

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson

18,484 members

504 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, perennialreader, ahef1963

30

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

19,037 members

459 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Aquila, sturlington

31

Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go

by George P. Pelecanos

301 members

5 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee

32

Eifelheim

by Michael Flynn

1,213 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

33

Generation Loss

by Elizabeth Hand

709 members

35 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Jannes, sturlington

34

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,871 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aulsmith, merrystar

35

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,536 members

818 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, perennialreader, elkiedee

36

In the Woods

by Tana French

11,730 members

634 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

37

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

2,977 members

135 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, elkiedee

38

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,388 members

784 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

39

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

6,284 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kiwiflowa, perennialreader

40

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,573 members

137 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

41

A Fine Balance

by Rohinton Mistry

10,058 members

273 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

42

The Elementals

by Michael McDowell

1,060 members

59 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Jannes, sturlington

43

The Gormenghast Trilogy

by Mervyn Peake

4,929 members

71 reviews

4.1

Member: Jannes

44

The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles

4,782 members

89 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

45

South Riding

by Winifred Holtby

1,043 members

42 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: 1930s East Yorkshire, local government and education politics

46

The Tenants of Time

by Thomas Flanagan

361 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

47

Memories of a Butterfly

by Ivan Vlasov

8 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: olonec

48

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

12,799 members

324 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

49

Paris to the Moon

by Adam Gopnik

2,986 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, perennialreader

50

The Unconsoled

by Kazuo Ishiguro

4,008 members

89 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

51

Roller Skates

by Ruth Sawyer

1,557 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: merrystar, elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Independent exploration of 1890s New York City through the eyes of a 10 year old girl

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Rules of Civility

by Amor Towles

6,407 members

361 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: 1920s New York City

53

Just Kids

by Patti Smith

6,669 members

268 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: New York City music and art scene in the 1970s

54

The Water Knife

by Paolo Bacigalupi

2,152 members

103 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, sturlington

55

Garnethill

by Denise Mina

1,135 members

37 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Glasgow

56

The Night Watchman

by Louise Erdrich

2,951 members

111 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, elkiedee

57

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

12,671 members

248 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

58

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

18,445 members

232 reviews

4.2

2 Members: perennialreader, elkiedee

59

Frog Music

by Emma Donoghue

1,669 members

99 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: sturlington, elkiedee

60

Dubliners

by James Joyce

22,211 members

266 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

61

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

by David Rutledge

97 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

62

Death in the Andamans

by M. M. Kaye

314 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

63

Was

by Geoff Ryman

946 members

16 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

64

Den andra staden

by Jonas Jansson

4 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: Jannes

65

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

by David Simon

2,406 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

66

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

by Henry Beston

1,142 members

35 reviews

4.1

Member: Jannes

67

Blackbird House

by Alice Hoffman

1,694 members

74 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Jannes

68

The Sun in the Morning

by M. M. Kaye

241 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: merrystar

69

Venus as a Boy

by Luke Sutherland

129 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

70

Wylding Hall

by Elizabeth Hand

635 members

50 reviews

3.9

Member: Jannes

71

Oasis

by Gregory Maguire

46 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: aulsmith

72

The Island of Sea Women

by Lisa See

2,392 members

121 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Jura, South Korea, through much of the 20th century, including WWII, the Korean War and many years on.

73

Boulevard

by Jim Grimsley

176 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

74

A Free Man of Color

by Barbara Hambly

1,007 members

41 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

75

Concourse

by S. J. Rozan

240 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: elkiedee

76

Eddie and the Cruisers

by P. F. Kluge

69 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

77

Indemnity Only

by Sara Paretsky

1,650 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: The mean streets of Chicago through the eyes of a female PI with a strong awareness' of social issues.

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