Group Reading Map (2017)

[Kathy]

A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

London, England

[Kirsten]

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

Kiev (Ukraine), Tsarist Russia

[Jill]

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Location: Lublin, Poland

[Jody]

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X.
Primary: New York, USA.

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Location: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, USA. (The county itself is fictional, but believed to be based on Lafayette County, if that helps!)

[Jill]

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Location: Nee Haven, Connecticut

[Sam]

Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
Primary: Cincinnati, Ohio
Secondary: New York, NY; Palo Alto and Palm Springs, California

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Primary: Blackcliff and Serra, Martial Empire (fictional)

[Bec]

Brain by Candace Blevins
Atlanta, Georgia
chattanooga, Tennessee

[Allison]

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

Location: Sydney, Australia

[Lieke]

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Location: New Beijing

[Clare]

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Primary: Seattle, Washington
Secondary: Palmer station, Antarctica

[J]

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Primary Location: Neverland
Secondary Location: Bloomsbury, London, England

[Samantha]

Spell or High Water
Primary Location: Lost City of Atlantis
Secondary Location: Seattle, WA

[°~Amy~°]

Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution by Wally Lamb et al.

Location: York Correctional Institute, Niantic, Connecticut

[Kara]

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

[Rebecca]

A Dog's Journey by W. Bruce Cameron
Primary: New York, New York, USA
Secondary: Rural Ohio, USA

[Peter]

Inferno by Dan Brown

Primary - Florence, Italy
Secondary - Venice, Italy / Istanbul, Turkey

[Tracy]

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Primary: Valparaiso, Chile
Secondary: Northern California

[Sophie]

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Somewhere in Sweden, it's not specified where.

[Barbara]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Set in London and Hogwarts (I think the parts in London are longer, but I'm not sure...)

[Angela]

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

Primary location: Norta (fictional country)

[Anna]

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce #1) by Alan Bradley
Location: Bishop's Lacey (fictional village), England, UK (nearest real city is York)

[J]

The Room by Jonas Karlsson

Primary Location: Stockholm, Sweden

[Jody]

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Location: Not expressly specified, but said to be based on Concord, Massachusetts, US.

[Bec]

Defects by Sarah Noffke
Primary: Austin Valley - fictional location inspired by Ashland, Oregon

[Ron]

Cat. 1: The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer - New York City/Long Island.

Cat. 2: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - Devon, England.

Cat. 3: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - probably London, England.

[Amanda]

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, Israel and Egypt

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, Primary location Cornwall, secondary location Florence

[Samantha]

Outlander
1740s Scotland

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Samantha, I went ahead and mapped with a little more detail and did Midhope Castle as the primary location and Inverness as secondary. Lallybroch is fictional but the show was filmed at Midhope so that seemed appropriate :)

[Rikudou]

Laura wrote: "Samantha, I went ahead and mapped with a little more detail and did Midhope Castle as the primary location and Inverness as secondary. Lallybroch is fictional but the show was filmed at Midhope so ..."

hahaha

[Kathy]

Barkskins by Annie Proulx

Primary:
Eastern Canada: Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick

Secondary:
Maine
Massachusetts
New Zealand
The Netherlands
Illinois
Michigan
Washington State

[JoJo]

Carrie by Stephen King

Location: Chamberlain, Maine, USA

[Jody]

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.
Location: Not specified, but Shmoop says "a small town in England". Helpful, I know.

[Silvia]

The BFG by Roald Dahl

Primary Location : Giant Country , out of the World Atlas map
Secondary Location: London, England

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Jody, I looked up a random list of small tows in England and chose one somewhat at random. It's mapped as Framlingham.

[KM]

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Soldier Island, Devon, England

[Sarah]

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Primary Location: Amity, Long Island, New York (a seaside resort town)

[Ruth]

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Primary Location: Culduie, Strathcarron, Scotland
Secondary location: Inverness, Scotland

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Location: Jackson, Mississippi

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton's Cold Comfort Farm
Primary location: Howling (fictional) in Sussex, England
Secondary location: London

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Ruth, I'm a little confused by your final entry. You have two different books listed? Can you please clarify?

[Ruth]

Laura wrote: "Ruth, I'm a little confused by your final entry. You have two different books listed? Can you please clarify?"

Sorry I meant
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Location: Amsterdam

and Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Primary location: Howling (fictional) in Sussex, England
Secondary location: London

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[SibylM]

Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo.
Location: fictional town of Bath NY, said to be based on Ballston Spa NY.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Location: multiple locations in Johannesburg SA, I would probably put Maryvale College as the primary location and Alexandra Township as the secondary location.

[Lieke]

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Primary location: Bon Temps, Louisiana (fictional, in northern Louisiana)

[Silvia]

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

Primary: Sydney, Australia

Secondary: Melbourne, Australia

[Jody]

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman.

Primary: Sosnowiec, Poland.
Secondary: Rego Park, New York City, USA.

[Anna]

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce #2) by Alan Bradley
Location: Bishop's Lacey (fictional village), England, UK (nearest real city is York)

[Sophie]

Dark Matter
Location: Chicago, IL

[Ruth]

The Summer Snow by Rebecca Pawel
Primary location: Granada, Spain

[Kirsten]

Night Watch by Iris Johansen

Primary Location: San Diego, CA
Big Bear, CA
Croyden, England

[Kelly]

A Million Little Things by Susan Mallery

Primary Location- Mischief Bay, CA
Mischief Bay is made up, but is described in the book as, "a coastal community tucked between Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach" in California.

[Angela]

Ape House

Primary Location: Lizard, New Mexico
Secondary Locations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Los Angeles, California
Lawrence, Kansas

[Charity]

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Primary: Florence, Italy