AAPI Heritage Month
Genres

Place


Place Books

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Dune (Dune, #1)
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch, #7)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)
Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)
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Lists

A Year in Provence by Peter MayleWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamThe Man Who Loved China by Simon WinchesterThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Books About Place
73 books — 11 voters
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingSpecials by Scott WesterfeldThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas AdamsThe Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
And, the third place goes to……..
294 books — 22 voters

Wood, Talc And Mr. J by Chris RoseMagic America by C.E. MedfordFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithComing up for Air by George Orwell
Fictional Novels About Nostalgia
26 books — 29 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisWhite Oleander by Janet FitchThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestThe Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)
325 books — 293 voters

Out of the Silence by Marie TheodoreHeidi by Johanna SpyriThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverCold Mountain by Charles FrazierAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Strong Sense of Place
199 books — 31 voters
Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Flaneur by Edmund WhiteLondon by Peter AckroydThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneGuy Debord and the Situationist International by Tom McDonough
Psychogeography
210 books — 40 voters

Quotes Tagged “Place”

Lois Lowry
“ I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. ”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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Max Porter
“ Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go. ”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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Videos Tagged “Place”

Place Marketing Travel Writer, Santorini Greece, Destination Promotion
Place Marketing Travel Writer, Santorini Greece, Destination Promotion
My Webcast Interview With Ross K – Very Fun & An Ending Even I Couldn’t Have Predicted!
My Webcast Interview With Ross K – Very Fun & An Ending Even I Couldn’t Have Predicted!
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Groups Tagged "Place"

Yep....the title it exactly what this place is for! Since the title is long, you can call this "…more
1 member, last active 13 years ago
Of place and space (VerySpatial) A book club dedicated to popular Geography themed books. We will discuss a book a month.
15 members, last active 11 years ago