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Crossing the Plains with BrunoGeez, this is a roadtrip book, so naming locations is kinda hard to do.
Primary: Anyway, here's where they "landed", so to speak:
Sawyer, Michigan
Secondary: Chicago, Illinois
Missoula, Montana
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniPrimary: Shadbagh, Afghanistan (fictional)
Secondary: Kabul, Paris, San Francisco
Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersWashington, D.C.
March: Book One by John Lewis
Primary: Nashville, Tennessee
Secondary: Alabama and Washington, D.C.
America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray
Primary: Virginia
Secondary: Paris, France and Washington, D.C.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie KondoPrimary: Tokyo, Japan
Cress by Marissa Meyer Primary: New Beijing
Secondary: Space, Africa
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
Primary: Jackson, Mississippi
Secondary: Bon Temps, Louisiana (fictional, in northern Louisiana)
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
Primary: King's Landing
Secondary: too many to mention
Lighthouse at the End of the World by Jules VernePrimary location: Staten Island (Isla de los Estados), Argentina
Pure Dead Magic by Debi GlioriPrimary: Argyll, Scotland
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Primary: Arden, Warwickshire
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two by John Tiffany
Primary: Hogwarts, Scotland
Ready Player One by Ernest ClinePrimary: Oklahoma City, OK
Secondary: Oasis (fictional), Chicago, IL, and Portland, Oregon.
Coraline by Neil GaimanPrimary: Littlemead, in the tiny Sussex town of Nutley, in the South of England
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala YousafzaiMain Location: Lembah Swat, Pakistan
Assassin's Creed: Assassins #3 by Anthony Del ColPrimary: Salem
Secondary: San Diego
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
Primary: Dublin
Secondary: London
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
Primary: Bangkok
Secondary: Jakarta
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutPrimary: Dresden, Germany
Secondary: Ilium, New York
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Primary: Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Primary: Chicago
Hana's Suitcase: A True StoryTakes place in 3 continents over a time period of almost 70 Years
the 2 main locations are
Czecholsovakia
and
Tokyo, Japan
the last locations is
Toronto, Canada
Viper Wine by Hermione EyrePrimary: Charterhouse Manor, London
Secondary: Gayhurst House, Buckinghamshire, England
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise SaganFrench Riviera
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson
Many locations. These are beginning and end of his trip.
Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England
Cape Wrath, Sutherland, Highlands of Scotland
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Lilliput (fictional)
island on the west coast of North America
island near India
Japan
England
Sorry for the huge list of books here! The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Primary: Gaborone, Botswana
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Primary: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Secondary: Columbus, Ohio
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Primary: Salcedo, Dominican Republic
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Primary: New York City
The Lake House by Kate Morton
Primary: Cornwall, England
Secondary: London, England
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Primary: Kabul, Afghanistan
Secondary: Herat, Afghanistan
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Primary: Mato Grosso region of the Amazon in Brazil
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Primary: Montgomery, Alabama
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Primary: Wethersfield, Connecticut
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Primary: New Orleans
Devil in Spring by Lisa KleypasLondon, England
Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams
Memphis, Tennessee
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNigeria
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Primary : Georgia
Secondary : Monrovia, Liberia, and Memphis, Tennessee
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Paris, France
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Primary : Portofino, Italy
Secondary : London, England
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees by Franck Prévot and Aurelia Fronty
Kenya
Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra
Canberra, Australia
Le Grand Marin by Catherine Poulain
Kodiak, Alaska
Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac
Primary : Yugoslavia
Secondary : Toronto, Canada
Le vieil homme et la mer by Thierry Murat, comic book adapted from Ernest Hemingway
Havana, Cuba
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Primary : Middletown, Ohio
Secondary : Breathitt County, Kentucky
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Maryland
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
Primary : Three Pines (fictional), Quebec, Canada
Secondary : Montreal, Canada
Life After Life by Kate AtkinsonPrimary location: England
Secondary Location: Germany
Not sure about all the locations, there's a few.
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvelvarious places:
Denver, Colorado
Deadwood, South Dakota
Puerto Rico
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
Scotland
The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence by Stan Lee, Stuart Moore & Andie TongPrimary location: Hong Kong
I can't remember where they all traveled. Ireland was one of them, and I think Paris. Sorry!
The Kill Order by James DashnerPrimary: Asheville
Secondary: Alaska; New York
The Medici Seal by Theresa Breslin
Primary: Florence
Secondary: Milan, Castell Barta (really all over Italy)
The Miseducation Years by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Primary: Dublin 4, Dublin
Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George
Primary: Lancastershire
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Primary: Count Olaf's house
Wings by Terry Pratchett
Primary: Florida
The Havana Room by Colin HarrisonPrimary location: Sixth Ave & West 36th Street, New York City
Secondary location: Southold, Long Island (North Fork)
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa with Christina LambPrimary: Aleppo, Syria
Secondary: (sorry there are a lot!)
Manbij, Syria
Gaziantep, Turkey
Izmir, Turkey
Behram, Turkey
Skala Sikammineas, Lesbos, Greece
Mitilini, Greece
Athens, Greece
Lojane, Macedonia
Miratovac, Serbia
Belgrade, Serbia
Apatin, Serbia
Zagreb, Croatia
Perisce, Slovenia
Maribor, Slovenia
Spielfeld, Austria
Salzburg, Austria
Rosenheim, Germany
Cologne, Germany
That's not even all of them, I just picked the main entry and exit points that Nujeen and her sister took in each country.
The Status of All Things by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke Primary: Los Angeles, USA
Secondary: Maui, Hawaii (not in the book much, but a couple of major events happen there)
I apparently forgot to post about this when I read it. Personally, I'd find it much easier to remember if all the group maps/timelines were in one thread!
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Primary: Sydney, Australia
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