Sense of place

1

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

34,106 members

541 reviews

4.1

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

2

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

9,027 members

288 reviews

4.1

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

3

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,293 members

263 reviews

4

5 Members: Jannes, aulsmith, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Cannery Row

by John Steinbeck

9,674 members

183 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

25,837 members

496 reviews

4.2

4 Members: KimarieBee, kiwiflowa, perennialreader, elkiedee

6

In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson

8,950 members

227 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, KimarieBee, perennialreader, ahef1963

7

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

7,955 members

337 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Little Town on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

8,918 members

73 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee, ahef1963

9

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

19,472 members

530 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Jannes, kiwiflowa, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Shipping News

by E. Annie Proulx

13,365 members

247 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Jannes, KimarieBee, perennialreader, ahef1963

11

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

6,462 members

108 reviews

3.8

4 Members: kiwiflowa, perennialreader, elkiedee, ahef1963

12

The Far Pavilions

by M. M. Kaye

2,348 members

66 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963

13

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

28,314 members

542 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee, ahef1963

14

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

13,326 members

279 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, elkiedee

15

Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

12,755 members

187 reviews

3.8

3 Members: KimarieBee, perennialreader, ahef1963

16

A Month in the Country

by J. L. Carr

2,214 members

118 reviews

4.2

3 Members: Jannes, perennialreader, ManWithAnAgenda

17

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

8,884 members

187 reviews

4

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

18

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

76,597 members

1,420 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: KimarieBee, perennialreader, ahef1963

19

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

13,543 members

262 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963

20

A Town Like Alice

by Nevil Shute

3,662 members

136 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963

21

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

3,493 members

265 reviews

4

3 Members: KimarieBee, elkiedee, ahef1963

22

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

42,898 members

998 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, perennialreader, ahef1963

23

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

9,201 members

176 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, perennialreader, ahef1963

24

The Alienist

by Caleb Carr

9,311 members

247 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, perennialreader, ahef1963

25

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

by Bill Bryson

16,540 members

467 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, perennialreader, ahef1963

26

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

5,365 members

181 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: perennialreader, ahef1963

27

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

16,883 members

526 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kiwiflowa, ahef1963

28

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,130 members

293 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go

by George P. Pelecanos

276 members

3 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee

30

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,636 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aulsmith, merrystar

31

Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

8,574 members

404 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, perennialreader

32

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

2,750 members

129 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, elkiedee

33

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,597 members

673 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

34

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

5,485 members

160 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kiwiflowa, perennialreader

35

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

5,823 members

121 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, merrystar

36

A Fine Balance

by Rohinton Mistry

9,024 members

251 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

37

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,432 members

369 reviews

4

Member: Aquila

38

The Gormenghast Trilogy

by Mervyn Peake

4,335 members

66 reviews

4.1

Member: Jannes

39

South Riding

by Winifred Holtby

912 members

40 reviews

4.1

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

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The Tenants of Time

by Thomas Flanagan

320 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

41

Memories of a Butterfly

by Ivan Vlasov

7 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: olonec

42

Paris to the Moon

by Adam Gopnik

2,746 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, perennialreader

43

Roller Skates

by Ruth Sawyer

1,310 members

29 reviews

3.8

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

44

Just Kids

by Patti Smith

5,302 members

233 reviews

4.1

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

45

Garnethill

by Denise Mina

1,033 members

36 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Glasgow

46

Eifelheim

by Michael Flynn

1,090 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

47

Generation Loss

by Elizabeth Hand

633 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: Jannes

48

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

15,321 members

211 reviews

4.2

2 Members: perennialreader, elkiedee

49

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

50,436 members

679 reviews

3.9

2 Members: perennialreader, elkiedee

50

Dubliners

by James Joyce

19,245 members

219 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

51

In the Woods

by Tana French

10,072 members

572 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

52

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

by David Rutledge

93 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

53

Death in the Andamans

by M. M. Kaye

289 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

54

Was

by Geoff Ryman

887 members

15 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

55

Den andra staden

by Jonas Jansson

4 members

1 review

4

Member: Jannes

56

Homicide : A Year On The Killing Streets

by David Simon

2,157 members

45 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

57

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

by Henry Beston

923 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: Jannes

58

Blackbird House

by Alice Hoffman

1,555 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Jannes

59

The Sun in the Morning

by M. M. Kaye

203 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: merrystar

60

Venus as a Boy

by Luke Sutherland

117 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

61

Wylding Hall

by Elizabeth Hand

449 members

42 reviews

3.9

Member: Jannes

62

Oasis

by Gregory Maguire

43 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: aulsmith

63

The Elementals

by Michael McDowell

764 members

47 reviews

3.9

Member: Jannes

64

The Island of Sea Women

by Lisa See

1,540 members

83 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.

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Boulevard

by Jim Grimsley

167 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

66

A Free Man of Color

by Barbara Hambly

901 members

37 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

67

Concourse

by S. J. Rozan

220 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

68

Eddie and the Cruisers

by P.F. Kluge

60 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

69

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

10,810 members

287 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

70

Indemnity Only

by Sara Paretsky

1,493 members

40 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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