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Japan (x2) - 1Q84, The Devotion of Suspect X
Washington DC - The Simple Truth
Nigeria - My Sister the Serial Killer
Vatican City - The Fallen Angel
Poland - The Tatooist of Auschwitz
England (x3) - Never Let Me Go, The Graveyard Book, A Darker Shade of Magic
Massachusetts - The Crucible
Texas - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Georgia (x2) - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Magic Burns
Maine & Texas - 11/22/63
Chicago - Capturing the Devil
Pennsylvania - With the Fire on High
California (x2) - Daisy Jones and the Six, The Black Echo
Mississippi - The Reckoning
Ohio (x3) - Hillbilly Elegy, Everything I Never Told You, Beloved
South Carolina - The Invention of Wings
Germany, Luxembourg, New York - Slaughterhouse Five
New York & Nebraska - The King of Crows
Netherlands - The Orphan's Tale
Australia - Jasper Jones

47. A classic book you've always meant to read - Siddhartha - 7/13/20 (India)
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" - City of Girls - 7/30/20 (NY)

The Witch of Portobello - Romania
The Donor: Quick Reads 2020 - England
A walk by the sea - England
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Connecticut, US
The Diary of a Young Girl - Netherlands

England: Bloodlust & Bonnets, Hollow City, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter, The Graveyard Book, Her Fearful Symmetry, Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Paper and Fire
Egypt: Ink and Bone, Smoke and Iron, Sword and Pen
Canada: Anne of Green Gables, The Glass Hotel
Malaysia: The Night Tiger
USA:
New York: Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories, Flowers for Algernon, The Goldfinch, The Magician King, The Starless Sea
Virginia: Hidden Figures
Mississippi: On the Come Up
Oregon: Armada
Pennsylvania: Ash and Quill

So far this year:
Australia: Victoria - Flying Too High
Canada: Ontario Indian Horse
France: Paris - Dreadful Company
Greece - The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky
India - Kim
Ireland - An Irish Country Family
Israel - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
USA: California - The Mexican Flyboy; The Buddha in the Attic; The Bride Test
USA: DC - Red, White & Royal Blue
USA: Louisiana - Mosquitoes
USA: New Jersey - Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream
USA: New York - Angels in America; Brewed Awakening
USA: Tennessee - Freedom Fire
USA: Wisconsin - The Westing Game
UK: England: Kent - Plague Land
UK: England: London - The Amulet of Samarkand; The Right Sort of Man; How to Stop Time; Strange Practice
UK: England: Oxfordshire - The Winter Siege; La Belle Sauvage
UK: England: Suffolk - The Crime at Black Dudley
All over the world - Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens (which is too bad, because there are some major chunks in some pretty obscure locations).
And several with fictional locations (Discworld, Hogwarts, Miraji, etc.).
Although Japanese Cooking Made Simple: A Japanese Cookbook with Authentic Recipes for Ramen, Bento, Sushi & More kind of feels like it could be listed for Japan, it's really more about people outside of Japan cooking Japanese food, and it doesn't really have a narrative location, so I don't think I should include it.

Poland (formerly East Prussia): Salt to the Sea
Singapore: Rich People Problems
South Africa: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
USA
Massachusetts: Summer of '69
Texas: When She Woke
Utah: When the Emperor Was Divine
Vermont: Belzhar

Virginia: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Maine: Institutet / The Institute by Stephen King
New York: En siste detalj / The Final Detail by Harlan Coben
In Space: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Ireland: Skogen / In the Woods by Tana French
Australia: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
Ireland: The Likeness by Tana French
California: Möss och människor / Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Ireland: Utrygg havn / Broken Harbour by Tana French
England: 1984 George Orwell
Washington: The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
France: Nattergalen / The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
England: Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
England: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Sweden: Björnstad by Fredrik Backman
Scotland: Eleanor Oliphant mår alldeles utmärkt by Gail Honeyman
North Carolina:The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Norway: Paktens voktere by Tom Egeland
Poland: Tatueraren i Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Washington/London: Rött, vitt och kungligt blått by Casey McQuiston
England: Stolthet og fordom / Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Nigeria: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Maryland: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
USA: Den underjordiska järnvägen / The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
USA: The Hate U Give (4,52) by Angie Thomas
Japan; Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Ohio: Små eldar överallt by Celeste Ng
Switzerland: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Poland: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Moscow: En gentleman i Moskva by Amos Towles
England: The Big Four by Agatha Christie
Georgia, USA: Fargen bortenfor / The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Greece/Italy: Circe by Madeline Miller
Sweden: Vi mot dere by Fredrik Backman
England/France: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Norway: Anne-Cath. Vestly by Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand
Arkansas: True Grit by Charles Portis (Western)
Ireland: Inntrengeren by Tana French
England: Når gjøken galer / The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K.Rawlings)
England: Tidsmaskinen /The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
USA: Flight by Sherman Alexie

Germany - Night
Solomon Islands (Guadacanal) - Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Scotland - The Hunting Party

Dear Martin - Georgia, USA
Emma - England
A Little Princess - England

Iceland - Miss Iceland
Brazil (Sao Paulo) - It Is Wood, It Is Stone
Canada/British Columbia - Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Italy (Rome) - Blood Water Paint
New York - The Witches of New York
Germany - Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Canada/Ontario - The Marrow Thieves
Paris - Paris in Love
Philadelphia - Such a Fun Age
Texas - That Old Ace in the Hole
Plymouth, England - The Surgeon's Lady
Philadelphia - Such a Fun Age
Texas - That Old Ace in the Hole
Plymouth, England - The Surgeon's Lady


England and Greece (Crete) - Plan for the Worst
England and New Mexico, US - Brave New World


Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) – The United Kingdom
The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides) – The United Kingdom
Slaughter-House-Five (Kurt Vonnegut) – Germany
Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens) – USA, North Carolina
What Alice Forgot (Liane Moriarty) – Australia
Daisy Jones & The Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid) – USA, California
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Oyinkan Braithwaite) – Nigeria
On the Island (Tracey Garvis Graves) – Maldives
Know My Name (Chanel Miller) – USA, California
The Only Plane in the Sky (Garrett Graff) – USA, New York
In Five Years (Rebecca Serle) – USA, New York
The Flatshare (Beth O’Leary) – The United Kingdom
Pestilence (Laura Thalassa) – Canada
Clean Sweep (Ilona Andrews) – USA, Texas
The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller) – Greece
And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini) – Afghanistan
Confess (Colleen Hoover) – USA, Texas
Wild (Cheryl Strayed) – USA, California
Red, White, and Royal Blue – USA, Washington, D.C.
Save the Date (Monica Murphy) – USA, California
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith) – Botswana
Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel) – USA, Illinois
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