Sense of place

1

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

42,149 members

612 reviews

4.1

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

2

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,109 members

286 reviews

4

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

3

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

10,139 members

322 reviews

4.1

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

4

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

28,656 members

538 reviews

4.2

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

5

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

10,691 members

406 reviews

4.2

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

6

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

25,185 members

647 reviews

4.1

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

7

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

14,346 members

275 reviews

3.9

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

8

Cannery Row

by John Steinbeck

11,167 members

214 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

7,081 members

109 reviews

3.8

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

10

In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson

9,845 members

246 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, KimarieBee, perennialreader, ahef1963

11

Little Town on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

11,111 members

87 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee, ahef1963

12

Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

13,898 members

198 reviews

3.8

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

13

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

89,927 members

1,559 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

14

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

15,302 members

290 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

15

The Far Pavilions

by M. M. Kaye

2,556 members

73 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963

16

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

4,283 members

304 reviews

4

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963

17

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

47,491 members

1,050 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

18

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

35,875 members

629 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee, ahef1963

19

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

15,229 members

310 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee

20

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

5,989 members

198 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963

21

A Month in the Country

by J. L. Carr

2,994 members

138 reviews

4.2

3 Members: Jannes, perennialreader, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

18,805 members

576 reviews

3.9

3 Members: kiwiflowa, sturlington, ahef1963

23

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

13,214 members

335 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

24

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

10,166 members

213 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

4,099 members

150 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963

26

Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

9,511 members

433 reviews

4

3 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, perennialreader

27

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

10,584 members

194 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, perennialreader, ahef1963

28

The Alienist

by Caleb Carr

10,451 members

262 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, perennialreader, ahef1963

29

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

by Bill Bryson

18,420 members

501 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, perennialreader, ahef1963

30

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

18,892 members

455 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Aquila, sturlington

31

Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go

by George P. Pelecanos

300 members

5 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee

32

Eifelheim

by Michael Flynn

1,208 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

33

Generation Loss

by Elizabeth Hand

707 members

35 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Jannes, sturlington

34

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,861 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aulsmith, merrystar

35

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,054 members

812 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, perennialreader, elkiedee

36

In the Woods

by Tana French

11,708 members

632 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

37

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

2,968 members

134 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, elkiedee

38

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,669 members

780 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

39

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

6,260 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kiwiflowa, perennialreader

40

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,540 members

136 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

41

A Fine Balance

by Rohinton Mistry

9,999 members

271 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

42

The Elementals

by Michael McDowell

1,050 members

59 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Jannes, sturlington

43

The Gormenghast Trilogy

by Mervyn Peake

4,906 members

71 reviews

4.1

Member: Jannes

44

The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles

4,764 members

89 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

45

South Riding

by Winifred Holtby

1,032 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

12,723 members

322 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

49

Paris to the Moon

by Adam Gopnik

2,985 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, perennialreader

50

The Unconsoled

by Kazuo Ishiguro

3,988 members

88 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

51

Roller Skates

by Ruth Sawyer

1,550 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

6,362 members

361 reviews

4

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

53

Just Kids

by Patti Smith

6,639 members

267 reviews

4.1

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

54

The Water Knife

by Paolo Bacigalupi

2,135 members

103 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, sturlington

55

Garnethill

by Denise Mina

1,127 members

37 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Glasgow

56

The Night Watchman

by Louise Erdrich

2,911 members

109 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, elkiedee

57

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

12,587 members

246 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

58

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

18,321 members

232 reviews

4.2

2 Members: perennialreader, elkiedee

59

Frog Music

by Emma Donoghue

1,665 members

99 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: sturlington, elkiedee

60

Dubliners

by James Joyce

22,117 members

264 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

2,404 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

1,134 members

34 reviews

4.1

Member: Jannes

67

Blackbird House

by Alice Hoffman

1,693 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Jannes

68

The Sun in the Morning

by M. M. Kaye

235 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

626 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

2,341 members

122 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

175 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

74

A Free Man of Color

by Barbara Hambly

1,005 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

1,647 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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