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Winter by Marissa MeyerPrimary location: Luna (the moon)
Secondary location: New Beijing, Earth (presumably where Beijing is now)
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil GaimanPrimary Location: Asgard, City of the Norse Gods
Secondary Location: A Village on a Fjord in Norway
Authority by Jeff VanderMeerPrimary: Southern Reach (a fictitious locale, somewhere near the Florida Keys)
Secondary: Rock Bay, WA
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay KristoffSpace - the Hypatia and the Alexander (ships)
Alexander is probably the Primary ship/location.
I hope I gave the right information!
The Refugees by Viet Thanh NguyenPrimary: Los Angeles, CA
Secondary: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
Persuasion by Jane AustenPrimary: Bath, England
Secondary: Somersetshire, England and Lyme Regis, England
Never Never by James Patterson & Candice FoxPrimary location- a mining camp in the desert near Kalgoorlie, Australia
Secondary locations - Sydney, Perth Australia
Gulliver's TravelsPrimary Location: Lilliput
Cloud Atlas
Primary Location: Chatham Islands
A Night to Remember
Primary Location: Atlantic Ocean
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Primary Location: Israel
The Man Who Would Be King
Primary Location: Afganistan
The Chilbury Ladies' ChoirPrimary location: Chilbury (fictional town) but based on the real life village of Chartham UK
This Is Paradise: Stories by Kristiana KahakauwilaPrimary: Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island of Hawai'i
Mod
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadPrimary: Georgia
Secondary: South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana
(The book takes place in fictional locations in all these states.)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexiePrimary: Spokane Indian Reservation (Wellpinit), WA
Secondary: Reardon, WA
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahamePrimary: The Riverbank, England (fictional)
Secondary: The Wildwood, England (fictional)
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos KazantzakisAll in the Middle East:
Primary: Nazareth, Cana, Magdala, Capernaum, Jerusalem
Secondary: Gennesaret, Golgotha
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn Primary location: fictional island of Nollop (seems to be an island in the Caribbean)
Bel Canto by Ann PatchettPrimary (only): an unnamed country in South or Central America (not Argentina)
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine BrooksPrimary Location: Iran
Secondary Locations: Jordan, Saudi Arabia
She travelled throughout the region and so I can't be more specific as to towns/cities.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankLocation: Merwedeplein & 263 Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi LeeLocations (there wasn't really a primary location): Chesire, England, UK
Paris, France
Marseilles, France
Barcelona, Spain
Venice, Italy
Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed RasulaPrimary settings: Zurich, Paris
Secondary settings: Berlin, New York, Munich, Cologne
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Primary location: New York City
Secondary location: Dublin, Ireland
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon SilkoPrimary: Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
Secondary: Gallup, New Mexico
San Diego, CA
Bataan Death March, Philippines (1942)
The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaPrimary:
Bulgaria
Secondary:
Istanbul, Turkey
Romania
Amsterdam
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
Primary location:
Outer space
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Location: Nigeria
Expo 58: A Novel by Jonathan CoePrimary: Brussels, Belgium
The Spy by Paulo Coelho
Primary: Paris, France
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes by Per Petterson
Primary: Oslo, Norway
Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain
Primary: Dublin, Ireland
Gotham Academy, Vol. 2: Calamity by Becky Cloonan and Brenden FletcherPrimary: Gotham Academy, Gotham City (fictional city)
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