Group Reading Map (2017)

[Rebecca]

West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Primary Location: Honestly, her memoirs are of all around Kenya, but parts of it do take place in Nairobi, Kenya.

[Rebecca]

The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack
Locations: The book is all about his travels in the U.S. territories, each chapter dealing with a different one, so take your pick from Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

[Anna]

Anna wrote: "Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.
Location: Chicago"

I don't see Dark Matter on the map (Chicago).

[°~Amy~°]

Blackout by Ryan Casey

Primary Location: Scotland

Secondary Location: UK

[°~Amy~°]

Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine

Primary Location: Alexandria Egypt

Secondary Location: London England

[Silvia]

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

Primary Location: Dustwalk, Miraji (Fictional)

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Primary Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

[Evelyn]

Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson

Primary: Boston, Massachusetts

[Rachel]

The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall

Primary: Avalon Hills, Connecticut

[°~Amy~°]

The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver: A Middle Falls Time Travel Novel by Shawn Inmon

Middle Falls, Oregon

[Rebecca]

Humans, Bow Down by James Patterson
Primary Location: a futuristic Denver, CO, USA

[Jennifer]

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Primary: Spencer, IA
Secondary: Mankato, MN

[Charity]

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Primary: Hailsham doesn't say where exactly that was but they did visit Norfolk in England as a secondary location.

[Rachel]

Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge
Primary: Brooklyn, New York

[JoJo]

Animal Farm
Primary Location: Willingdon, England

[Barbara]

Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
Setting: Constantinople,Turkey | Vinkovci, Croatia | Yugoslavia

I have no idea where is set the most part of this book. But the most important part is set in Vinkovci, Croatia, where the murder kills the victim.

[Stacey]

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Primary: Santa Teresa, Mexico
(In the novel, Santa Teresa exists in the Sonora area of northern Mexico, but Santa Teresa is fictional. The real town is Ciudad Juárez).

There are many other important locations throughout this 912-page novel, but Santa Teresa centers the entire story.

[°~Amy~°]

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Primary: Isla De los Suenos (fictional)
Secondary: Isle of Trisda (fictional)

[Perri]

The Lowland
Calcutta, India

[Rebecca]

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Primary: CIA HQ, Langley, VA, USA

[Rebecca]

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney
Primary: Hendon, London, UK

[°~Amy~°]

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

Primary: Sweden

[Rachel]

My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities

Primary: United States. I can't get any more specific since the book is a collection of short stories, all by different authors.

[°~Amy~°]

Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones

Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico

[Lynn Renee]

Personal by Lee Child

Primary Location: London, England UK
Secondary: Paris, France

[Charity]

The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

Primary Location: Connecticut

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Sorry for the delay, everyone! The map is now up to date :)

[Lynn Renee]

The Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton

Primary Location: Cotswold Village, UK

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Hmmm... it looks like my changes did not stick. Grrr...

I'll continue to update in the next few days. For now, the map is updated through message 265.

[Rebecca]

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Primary Location: Alice Island, MA, USA (fictional place, but the description makes it sound like it is a stand in for either Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard
Secondary Location: Providence, RI, USA

[Rachel]

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

Primary Location: New York (the only info I could find was "upstate New York." I forgot I didn't update this thread yesterday and returned the book to the library, so I can't check for something more specific).

[Stacey]

Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

Primary Location: Indian Mound Downs Racetrack, Wheeling, West Virginia
(Fictitious racetrack, but the setting is in the state's northern pandhandle region, so Wheeling seems to fit.)

[Kirsten]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

St Petersburg, Mississippi

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry

Baltimore, Maryland
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Somewhere in Afghanistan

The 39 Steps by John Buchan

London, England
Scotland

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

New York City, New York
Paris, France
Badram (sp?), Turkey
Somewhere in Afghanistan
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

[Rachel]

Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
Primary Setting: Pine Hills, California

[Veronica]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Primary: Kabul, Afghanistan
Secondary: Fremont, California
Peshawar, Pakistan

[°~Amy~°]

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

Location: London, England

[Kathy]

Vertigo 42 by Martha Grimes

Primary Location: Devon, England
Secondary Location: London, England

What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the Ninety-Something Track Star Who Is Smashing Records and Outpacing Time, and What She Can Teach Us About How to Live by Bruce Grierson

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

Location: French Riviera
Secondary Location: London, England

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Howards End by E.M. Forster

Primary Location: Hertfordshire, England
Secondary Location: London England

[°~Amy~°]

Where Hope is Lost by Trish Marie Dawson

Primary location: Northern Arizona

[Stacey]

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Primary: Freedom Hall, a fictional estate/retreat in Washington, DC (location is not stated outright, but I'm guessing this from the weather conditions and the plot)

Secondary locations: Mars; St. Petersburg, Florida

[Andrea]

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Main location: La Mancha
Other locations: Barcelona

[Andrea]

Soga om laksdølane by unknown

Main Locations: Western Island, Trondheim, Kristiansand and Bergen all cities in Norway

[Rachel]

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Primary: Boston, Massachusetts

[Rebecca]

Addition by Toni Jordan
Location: Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia

[Silvia]

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Location: Ravka (Fictional)

[Rebecca]

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
Primary location; Machu Picchu, Peru

[Evelyn]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Primary Location : Bani, Dominican Republic.

[°~Amy~°]

Limbo City Lights by Angela Roquet

Primary: Limbo City (fictional afterlife)

[°~Amy~°]

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Primary Location: Washington (state)

[Stephanie]

Pax did not really mention a location but the setting was the woods

[Rebecca]

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Primary Location: Oxford, UK

[Jill]

Palisades Park by Alan Brennert
Location: Palisades Park, New Jersey