Because I'm a geek

[prosodic]

...and because I love books and travel and I love to make lists...

I'm currently making a list of books about places or books in which a place is important.

For example, when I was in Paris, I read A Moveable Feast by Hemingway, because it was about Paris. I like reading books that feature places I have been, although I would rather read them when I'm actually visiting that place.

So there's The Historian, which features a lot of places I've been: Amsterdam, Istanbul, Venice...etc. etc.

So...help me make this list. What books can you think of that are about places, or at least a place that figures prominently in the book? They don't necessarily have to be fiction. I have Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence on the list. I also have A Tale of Two Cities, Girl With A Pearl Earring, The Da Vinci Code...etc. etc.

I'm curious to see what you come up with.

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[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

A couple that come to my mind immediately:

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (place: Canada)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (place: Savannah, Georgia)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (place: Kyoto)
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver (place: Arizona)
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (place: Congo, Africa)
All the Bill Bryson books, of course

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that I didn't read Midnight before my visit to Savannah. *IF* we get orders to Georgia, I'll have to make sure I read it before we go there again. John Berendt also wrote another book about Venice, which I have read. I should put that on the list.

There was one I thought of this morning, as I drifted in and out of sleep, and now I can't remember it. Hopefully it will come to me at some point when I can write it down.

Bill Bryson is good. His book about his travels through Europe is gut-busting hilarious. I don't remember a book ever making me laugh so hard in my life.