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Novels where the scene, the setting, or the environment is a major character
 

Author

Title

Location

Adlard, Mark

The Greenlander

Greenland

Allende, Isabel

The House of the Spirits

South America

Atwood, Margaret

The Robber Bride

Toronto

Banks, Russell

Rule of the Bone

New York State

 

The Book of Jamaica

Jamaica

Barr, Nevada

Mystery Series

Binchy, Maeve

Circle of Friends

Ireland

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

The Tortilla Curtain

California

Bradbury, Ray

The Martian Chronicles

Mars

Burns, Olive Ann

Cold Sassy Tree

Georgia

Carr, Caleb

The Alienist

New York

Cather, Willa

My Antonia

Nebraska

Dexter, Pete

The Paperboy

Florida

Dillard, Annie

The Living

Puget Sound, Washington

Doerr, Harriet

Consider This Senora

Mexico

Dooling, Richard

White Man's Grave

Africa

DuMaurier, Daphne

Rebecca

England

Evans, Nicholas

The Horse Whisperer

Upstate New York

Faulkner, William

anything the South

Finney, Jack

Time and Again

New York

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby

Long Island, New York

Forster, E.M.

A Passage to India

India

Frazer, Charles

Cold Mountain

Civil War America

Grey, Zane

Riders of the Purple Sage

Western US

Gusterson, David

Snow Falling on Cedars

Washington State

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The House of the Seven Gables

Massachusetts

Herbert, Frank

Dune

Desert Planet

Hoeg, Peter

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Denmark, Greenland

Hoffman, Alice

Turtle Moon

Florida

Humphries, Josephine

Fireman's Fair

South Carolina

Jerome, Jerome K.

Three Men in a Boat

London

Jewett, Sarah Orne

Country of the Pointed Firs

Maine

Karon, Jan

The Mitford Series

North Carolina

Kennedy, William

Ironweed

Albany, New York

Kingsolver, Barbara

The Bean Trees

North America

Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

Alabama

Marshall, Catherine

Christy

Appalachia

Matthiessen, Peter

Far Tortuga

Cayman Islands

McCourt, Frank

Angela's Ashes

Ireland

McCrumb, Sharyn

The Rosewood Casket

Southern Appalachia

May, Connie

River of Hidden Dreams

Florida

Mayle, Peter

Hotel Pastis

France

Melville, James

anything

Morgan, Marlo

Mutant Message Down Under

Australia

Norman, Howard

The Bird Artist

Newfoundland

Paretsky, Sara

V.I. Warshawski Mysteries

Chicago

Pelleitier, Cathy

Beaming Sonny Home

United States

Percy, Walker

The Moviegoer

New Orleans

Price, Reynold

anything

Proulx, E. Annie

The Shipping News

Newfoundland

Rawlings, Marjorie

Cross Creek

Florida

Rice, Anne

The Witching Hour

New Orleans, San Francisco, Amsterdam, France

Rolvagg, O.E.

Giants in the Earth

North Dakota

Shields, Carol

The Stone Diaries

Canada

Siddons, Anne Rivers

Downtown

Atlanta, Georgia

Smiley, Jane

The Greenlanders

Greenland

Smith, Lee

Fair and Tender Ladies

Southern Appalachia

Stegner, Wallace

Angle of Repose

California

Stokes, Naomi

The Tree People

Olympic Rain Forest

Tan, Amy

The Hundred Secret Senses

Chinese Americans

Undset, Sigred

The Cross

Norway
 

The Mistress of Husaby

Norway

Waumbaugh, Joseph

The Golden Orange Orange Coast

California

Welty, Eudora

anything

Wharton, Edith

Ethan Frome

New England

Whitney, Phyllis

anything

   

List compiled by Julia Keating, Bartlett Public Library, Bartlett, Illinois, and K. A. K. Keller, Brighton District Library, Brighton, Michigan

   


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