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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Eat, Pray, Love
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
Notes from a Small Island
The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
The Colors of Us
Married to Bhutan
Setting by Jack M. BickhamWord Painting by Rebecca McClanahanDescription & Setting by Ron Rozelle
Setting
3 books — 2 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Place Description Or Setting
51 books — 18 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Fantabulous Worldbuilding
157 books — 14 voters


Maud Hart Lovelace
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Richard  Adams
The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Daylight, even when the sun is clear of clouds, seems to us simply the natural condition of the earth and air. When we think of the downs, we think of the downs in daylight, as with think of a rabbit with its fur on. Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not: and we do not usually envisage the downs ...more
Richard Adams, Watership Down

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