Place


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)
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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)
Albany by Karen SorensenStories of Albany by Catherine J. WebbAlbany, California by Albany Chamber of Commerce
Albany, California
3 books — 1 voter

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffCannery Row by John SteinbeckAnd to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. SeussThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
City Streets
875 books — 103 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
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola RotimiAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
Books Set in Nigeria
198 books — 109 voters

Naomi Klein
After listening to the great farmer-poet Wendell Berry deliver a lecture on how we each have a duty to love our 'homeplace' more than any other, I asked him if he had any advice for rootless people like me and my friends, who disappear into our screens and always seem to be shopping for the perfect community where we should put down our roots. 'Stop somewhere,' he replied. 'And begin the thousand-year-long process of knowing that place. That's good advice on lots of levels, because in order to w ...more
Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

Markus Zusak
Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it. Maybe that's what these pages of words are about: Bringing the world to the window. ...more
Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

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