Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Battle Royale

Primary: Okishima Island
Secondary: Kobe, Japan

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Primary: Upper Darby, Rhode Island
Fictional, but supposed to be a suburb of Providwence, RI

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Primary: Swindon, Wiltshire, South West England
Secondary: London, England

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Primary: New York City

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
Primary: Ithaca, Ancient Greece
Secondary: Sparta, Ancient Greece

Shadow Of The Thylacine: One Man's Epic Search For The Tasmanian Tiger by Col Bailey
Primary location; Maydena, Tasmania

Dracula by Bram Stoker
Primary Locations: Transylvania and London, England

The Witches by Roald Dahl
Primary: Norway and United Kingdom

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Primary: Possum Gully, New South Wales, Australia (near the real Komungla)
Secondary: Caddagat (based on family property at Talbingo, New South Wales)

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Primary: Cornwall, England

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Primary: New York City, USA

We're working on getting the map up to date! So sorry for the delay. Updated through message #289

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Primary: Omaha, Nebraska

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Primary: Yeongdo, South Korea (part of modern day Busan)
Secondary: Yokohama, Japan

Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

Primary: New Terra/Ilus
Secondary: The Ring Station, "two Astronomical Units (AU) outside the orbit of Uranus"

The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively

Primary: Pompeii, Italy

Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend

Primary: Isla Floreana, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Secondary: San Fransisco, CA

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Primary: Northanger Abbey, Gloucestershire, UK (fictional map here: http://www.jasna.org/info/images/map-...)
Secondary: Bath, UK

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Primary: Limbe, Cameroon
Secondary: Harlem, New York City

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Primary: Aldwinter, Essex, UK (fictional, but closest to Brightlingsea)

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

Primary: Münstereifeler Str. 20, 53520 Hümmel, Germany

Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens

Primary: Cheltenham, England

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

Primary: Rome, Maine (https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?...)

A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

Primary: Three Pines, Eastern Townships, Quebec (fictional town, real county)

Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

Primary: Dorset, England (on the coast somewhere)

Triptych by Karin Slaughter

Primary: Atlanta, Georgia

Death in the Floating City by Tasha Alexander
Primary: Venice, Italy

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Primary: cruise on the North Sea
Secondary: London, England

Girl at War by Sara Novic
Primary: Zagreb, Croatia
Secondary: New York City

The Strain & The Fall by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro
Both take place in New York City

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Primary: Alexandria, Egypt
Secondary: Rome, Italy

The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters
Primary: Luxor, Egypt

Longbourn by Jo Baker
Primary: Hertfordshire, England

Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
Primary: Versailles, France

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz and Kat Helgeson
Locations: Providence, Rhode Island and Northern California
Secondary: Chicago, Illinois and Toronto, Ontario (one major event happens there)

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama.

Primary: Washington, DC
Secondary: Chicago, IL

11/22/63

Lisbon Falls, Maine
Jodie, Texas

Nora Webster

Wexford, Ireland

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
London, England

Stories 1,2,3,4 by Eugène Ionesco and Etienne Delessert
Paris, France

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Location: Paris, France
Secondary: Lyon, Bonnieux, Sanary-sur-Mer (all in France)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Location: Molching, Germany

All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
Primary: Brooklyn, NY
Secondary: Chicago, IL and Warren, New Hampshire

It's All Fun and Games by Dave Barrett
Primary: It's a fictional magic location, so please add it to the "fantasy" area on the map
Secondary: Hampden, Maine

The Tsar of Love and Techno

Leningrad/St. Petersburg

Kirovsk Russia

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Primary: Camazotz (fictional planet)

Secondary: Connecticut, USA
Uriel (fictional planet)
Ixchel (fictional planet)

Though the story starts on Earth, the majority if the story and action takes place in Camazotz so I consider that to be the primary location.

Swamplandia!
Florida Everglades

The Thin Man
New York City

Silas Marner
Raveloe, England (fictional)

Americanah
Primary: Lagos, Nigeria
Secondary: London, England

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Primary: San Francisco, California
Secondary: Yosemite National Park, California

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Primary: New York, New York
Secondary: Tokyo, Japan

The First Circle
Moscow, Russia

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Primary: Alaska
Secondary: Minnesota

The Blind Assassin
Primary: Port Ticonderoga, Ontario, Canada (fictional)
Secondary: Toronto, Canada

Little House in the Big Woods

Pepin, Wisconsin, USA

Analfabeten som kunde räkna by Jonas Jonasson
Primary location: South Africa and Sweden

Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Primary location: Bon Temps, Louisiana (fictional, in northern Louisiana)

Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
Primary location: Dorset, England

Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
Primary location: Connecticut, USA

En man som heter Ove by Fredrik Backman
Primary location: Sweden

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Primary location: Sussex, England

The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody
Primary location: fictional world

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
Primary location: Bon Temps, Louisiana (fictional, in northern Louisiana)

Zero Hour by Pittacus Lore
Primary location: to many (3 novellas, with different characters)

Updated through message #321

Just kidding, my changes didn't stick again. Actually updated through message 309. Any Google experts know why the map keeps failing to save? :/

The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
Location: Bavaria, Germany

Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie
Wychwood under Ashe, England (not a real place, I believe)

The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset
Sel, Norway

The Circle by Dave Eggers

Primary location: California, USA

Updated through message #362

The Red Tent

Haran
Schechem
Thebes, Egypt
City of the Kings, Egypt

Women in Wonderland: Lives, Legends, and Legacies of Yellowstone National Park by Elizabeth A. Watry

- Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States

Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik

Location - London, UK

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Primary - Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Secondary - San Antonio, Texas, US

Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

Location: Sandwick, Shetland Islands, UK

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Primary: Kingsbridge, South Devon, UK
Secondary (the story is about a cross country journey, so I have included the top 10)
- South Brent, Devon, UK
- Buckfast Abbey, Devon, UK
- Exeter, Devon, UK
- Taunton, Somerset, UK
- Bath, UK
- Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
- Darlington, UK
- Wooler, UK
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, UK

What I Wore to Save the World by Maryrose Wood
Primary: Wales, UK
Secondary:
-Connecticut, USA
-Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK

Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters
Primary: Luxor, Egypt

Behind the Shattered Glass by Tasha Alexander
Primary: Derbyshire, England

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Primary: Hotel Metropol, Moscow, Russia

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Primary location: Missouri, USA

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Primary Location: Vermont

The map is now up to date!

Tip: If you think it's too crowded then you can just uncheck the box next to 'secondary locations' to see only the primary locations.

Laura wrote: "The map is now up to date!

Tip: If you think it's too crowded then you can just uncheck the box next to 'secondary locations' to see only the primary locations."

Thanks Laura!

The Chosen by J.R. Ward

Caldwell, NY (I'm not sure, but I think it may be fictional)

A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
Primary location: near Cushing, Maine, USA
Secondary location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Primary location: London, England
Secondary locations:
York, North Yorkshire, England
Shropshire, England
Spain
Padua, Italy
Venice, Italy

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Primary location: London, England

The Sound of Gravel
Primary: LeBaron, Chihuahua, Mexico
Secondary: El Paso, Texas, USA

Things We Lost in the Fire
Primary: Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger

Primary: England

Keep forgetting to update these threads, so here's a bunch:

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Primary: Broken Wheel, Iowa

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Primary: Lincoln, Nebraska
Secondary: Omaha, Nebraska

Baba Yaga's Assistant by Marika McCoola
Primary: Actually, I'm not sure if the book ever specifies

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Primary: The Kingdom of Norta

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Primary: Stamps, Arkansas
Secondary: St. Louis, Missouri,
San Francisco, California

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Primary: Broken Wheel, Iowa

Updated :)

The Dry by Jane Harper

Primary : Kiewarra (fictional), Australia

Red Bones by Ann Cleeves

Location: Whalsey, Shetland Islands, UK
(you can find the exact locations on this map here: http://www.anncleeves.com/shetland/ma...)

White Nights by Ann Cleeves

Location: Biddista (fictional) on Northmavine, Shetland Islands, UK (see link above)

The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Location: Illmorog, Kenya (fictional location, somewhere in "upcountry Kenya")

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Location: Aba, Abia, Nigeria

A Perfect Waiter by Alain Claude Sulzer

Location : Giessbach, Switzerland