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Winter by Marissa MeyerPrimary location: Luna (the moon)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Primary locations: Geneva (Switzerland)
Ingolstadt (Germany)
Orkney Islands, Scotland (United Kingdom)
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
Primary location: England
The Princess Bride by William GoldmanBoth locations (somewhere in Europe) are fictional and found within the Renaissance era, so you could put them under "Fantasy Settings":
Primary: Florin
Secondary: Guilder
Longbourn by Jo BakerPrimary: Hertfordshire, England
Secondary: Derbyshire, England, London, England, Portugal, Spain
Death of Yesterday by M.C. BeatonLochdubh, Scotland
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
the fictional planet of Urras, and its equally fictional moon of Anarres
The Thing About Love by Julie JamesPrimary: Jacksonville, Florida
Secondary: FBI Chicago
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Primary: Bristol, United Kingdom
My last 4 books:The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
Primary location: Ottawa, Canada
Dodger by Terry Pratchett
Primary Location: London
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Primary Location: Osage county, Oklahoma
Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King
Primary Location: Fictional town Castle Rock, Maine
The Shipping NewsFictional Town Killick-Claw on the Newfoundland coast. A day's drive from St. John's?
Exit West by Mohsin HamidLocations (all fairly equal in importance):
Unnamed country on the verge of civil war
London, England
Marin County, California, USA
Cujo by Stephen KingPrimary location: Castle Rock, Maine, USA
Other locations: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Other locations: Stratford, Connecticut, USA
Malafemmena by Louisa ErmelinoPrimary: Little Italy, New York
Secondary: Kanahar, Afghanistan
Calangute Beach, Goa, India
Antalya, Turkey
Rome, Italy
Jakarta, Indonesia
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya MenonPrimary: San Francisco State University
Nine Island by Jane Alison
Primary: Venetian Islands, Florida
News of the World by Paulette JilesLocation: Texas
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Primary Location: United States
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Location: Victoria, Australia
Egg Shells by Caitriona LallyPrimary Location: Dublin, Ireland
Everything, Everything by Nicola YoonPrimary: Los Angeles, California, USA
Secondary: Maui, Hawaii, USA
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Primary: Prythian (A fantasy land).
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganPrimary Location: iDeath (a fictional area in Bolinas, California)
Anything You Can Do by R.S. GreyPrimary Location: Hamilton, Texas
All In by Simona Ahrnstedt
Primary Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Secondary Location: Båstad, Sweden
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. SullivanPrimary Location: Denver, Colorado, US
Secondary Location: Rio Vista, Colorado, US
Midnight's Children Primary locations: Bombay, India (now Mumbai)
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Secondary: Kashmir
New Delhi, India
When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa JamesPrimary locations: Pendine, UK
Orange: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Ichigo Takano
Primary locations: Matsumoto, Japan
Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot PerlmanPrimary: Melbourne, Australia; St. Kilda, Australia; Port Phillip Prison, Victoria, Australia
Winter Garden by Kristin HannahSetting 1: Leavenworth, Washington, USA
Setting 2: Leningrad, Russia (now St. Petersburg)
Setting 3: Sitka, Alaska
March by Geraldine BrooksPrimary: Concord, Massachusetts; cotton plantation in Virginia; Secondary: Washington, DC
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannPrimary: the South Bronx, New York; between the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center, New York, 1974; Upper East Side, New York; Dublin, Ireland
Secondary: Goshen, New York; Palo Alto, California
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingPrimay Location: UK
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Primary Location: Langley, Virginia, USA
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Locations: Södermanlands län, Sweden
Malmköping, Sweden
Åkers Styckebruk, Sweden
Bali, Indonesia
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonLocation: Sweden (Hedeby Island, Hedestad and Stockholm)
Five Little Pigs by Agatha ChristiePrimary Location: Devon, England
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Primary Location: Yorkshire, England
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
Primary Location: near Limerick, Ireland
Secondary Location: Dublin, Ireland
All You Need by Lorelei JamesPrimary Location: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
Well Hung by Lauren Blakely
Primary Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY
Secondary Location: Las Vegas Strip, Nevada
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Locations: Washington D.C., USA
Chernobyl, Pripyat, Ukraine
Agra, India
Southern Ural Mountains, Russia