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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 |
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The Book of Jamaica |
Jamaica |
Barr, Nevada |
Mystery Series |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Mistress of Husaby |
Norway |
Waumbaugh, Joseph |
The Golden Orange Orange Coast |
California |
Welty, Eudora |
anything |
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Wharton, Edith |
Ethan Frome |
New England |
Whitney, Phyllis |
anything |
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List compiled by Julia Keating, Bartlett Public Library, Bartlett, Illinois, and K. A. K. Keller, Brighton District Library, Brighton, Michigan |
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