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About a Boy
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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1984
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A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
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A Second Chance (Bradford, #1)
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Brave New World
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London
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
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Little Dorrit
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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David Copperfield
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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The End of the Affair
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Brick Lane
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
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Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
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Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1)
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Pygmalion
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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NW
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The Time Machine
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Possession
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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Jane Eyre
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)
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Helen Fielding (Goodreads Author)
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Trust No One
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Lizzy Grey (Goodreads Author)
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High Fidelity
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Dombey and Son
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
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Our Mutual Friend
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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Saturday
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The Girl on the Train
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The Uncommon Reader
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Cloud Atlas
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Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
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If it Weren't for You
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Vanity Fair
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
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Rumpole of the Bailey (Rumpole of the Bailey, #1)
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Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London, #3)
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Hangover Square
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Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
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Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Small Island
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A Little Princess
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Forever Amber
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London Fields
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)
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Love and the Art of War
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Spoils of the Moon
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London Belongs to Me
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The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
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King Rat
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Crimson Petal and the White
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Falling Angels
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The Satanic Verses
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The Prince and the Pauper
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
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The Secret Agent
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
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The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)
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Unscripted
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Miss Wrong and Mr Right
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A Conspiracy of Paper (Benjamin Weaver, #1)
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A Very Coco Christmas (Coco Pinchard #0.5)
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Sweeney Todd: The Barbarous Barber of Fleet Street
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....hunh, I would think of Fifth Business as being 'set in' Canada far more than London. 'World of Wonders' has a long London interlude....
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And "An Instance of the Fingerpost" is set in Oxford, not London ... and the overwhelming majority of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is set in Dartmoor!
Is "literature" supposed to be construed as fiction?
Hmm. Jessica, you created the list -- were you thinking of novels and short stories only, or also (for example) of plays set in London and nonfiction books about London?
Moira wrote: "....hunh, I would think of Fifth Business as being 'set in' Canada far more than London. 'World of Wonders' has a long London interlude...."I agree. Much as I want to vote for Fifth Business , I won't for that reason.
Would anyone like to speak in favor of Jane Eyre? Because I can't remember it being set in London, either. And I'll remove it if someone doesn't make a good argument for it.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?? Hogwarts was not in London - they took a train from London to the school.
Well ... the logic of language, applied to the wording of the list's title, means that pretty much all of the Potter books were "set in London" for at least for some of the doings in each one. IMHO ...
Chris wrote: "Well ... the logic of language, applied to the wording of the list's title, means that pretty much all of the Potter books were "set in London" for at least for some of the doings in each one. IMHO..."True, I would clarify the description to say books set primarily in London or something to that effect.
#640 The Talisman Ring is set at an English country inn where the characters are snowed in.
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