I'm looking for a book with a strong setting, somewhere you really feel like you get to know the place. Can be anywhere really: tropical island, Parisian pied a terre, tiny Mexican village, a skyscraper in Malaysia. I'm currently living in an incredibly boring place and I just want to be transported somewhere different! I read widely, so genre isn't important as long as it isn't super dark
by MaddieLengle
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the raven tower by anne leckie
any discworld novel by terry pratchett, but especially ones set in ankh-morpork
the great alone by kristin hannah and a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith!
The Night Tiger, by Yangsze Choo
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Ocean Sea by Alessandro Barrico. I’ve never read a book quite like that.
The Briar Cub by Kate Quinn
*The Shining* (Stephen King)
*A Year in Provence* (Peter Mayle)
*The Haunting of Hill House* (Shirley Jackson)
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
a moveable feast by ernest hemingway
*North Woods* by Daniel Mason.
Cannery Row by Steinbeck
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
*The Night Circus* by Erin Morgenstern
How bout cold rocky windy islands full of wildlife and secrets?
The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Or a mysterious old mansion?
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
MEXICAN gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia
*Perdido Street Station* (gonzo steampunk fantasy, very vivid)
*Salem’s Lot* (small Maine town) (but possibly too dark for you)
*The Alexandria Quartet* (WW2-era Egypt, rich, corrupt, decadent)
*The City and the City* (same author as Perdido, pseudo-Arab/Jewish split)
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin – about 1970s San Francisco
The City We Became by NK Jemisin
Starling House by Alix E Harrow