Atlas of the Novel, North America, west to east, north to south, 93 entries
Caroline Paul, East Wind, Rain, 2006, Niihau, Hawaii, USA
Richard Brautigan - The Hawkline Monster - 1974 - Hawaii; Eastern Oregon
Christopher Moore, Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings, 2003, Maui, Hawaii
T.C. Boyle, Drop City, 2003, Northern California commune, Boynton, Alaska
David Gutterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995. Puget Sound,
Washington, U.S.A.
Richard Powers. 2000. Plowing the Dark, Seattle, Beirut,
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over The Cuckoo¢s Nest, Oregon
Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job, 2006, San Francisco, California; Sedona, Arizona
Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, 1978, San Francisco
Kevin Shay, The End As I Know It, 2006. San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL, rural East Texas, Brooklyn, NY, and Denver, Co, among other places.
Khaled Hosseini; The Kite Runner; 2003; Kabul, Afghanistan; Fremont, California; Peshawar, Pakistan
Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose, 1971. Grass Valley, California, New Almaden, CA, Santa Cruz, CA, Leadville,
CA, Michoacan, Mexico, Boise City, ID, Grass Valley, CA, USA
Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing. 1993. San Francisco Bay area.
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976. San Francisco, CA. New Orleans, LA. Paris, France. New Orleans, LA.
Bharati Mukherjee, Desirable Daughters, 2002. San Francisco and Mumbai (though called Bombay in the book).
Mary Rakow, The Memory Room. 2002. Los Angeles, Santa Barbara; final, triumphant trip to Philadelphia.
Susan Sontag, In America, 2001, Warsaw, Poland, Anaheim, CA, with stops in Hoboken, NJ, NYC, San Francisco and Chicago
Diane Johnson, Burning, 1971. Los Angeles.
Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent, 2003, Los Angeles and
Baghdad
Jane Smiley, Horse Heaven, 2000, Pasadena, NYC, Maryland, US, Chantilly, Paris, France
Janet Fitch: White Oleander, 1999, Southern California: Venice Beach, Tujunga, Van Nuys, Hollywood, West
Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, USA. Berlin, Germany.
Chris Abani, The Virgin of Flames, 2007, Los Angeles, USA
Susan Straight. Aquaboogie, 1990, Riverside, Ca.
Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, 1968, Hollywood in the late 1960s
Tom Spanbauer, Now Is The Hour, 2006, Pocatello, ID in 1967
Walter Kirn, Mission To America, 2005, Montana / Wyoming / Colorado (USA)
Geroge MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Redskins, 1982, LIttle Big Horn, Montana, US
Stephen King, The Shining, 1977. New England, U.S.A. Colorado,U.S.A.
Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang, 1975, Arizona
Andrea Barrett, Middle Kingdom, 1991, North Dakota, Beijing
Elmore Leonard, The Hot Kid, 2005, Oklahoma, USA
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 2005, Iowa US
Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991, North central Iowa, US
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods, 1932, Wisconsin, USA
Elliott, Stephen, Happy Baby, 2004. Chicago to San Francisco, USA
Don DeLillo, Libra, 1988, Dallas, New Orleans, New York City.
Elliott, Stephen, A Life Without Consequences, 2001, Chicago, USA
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife, 2003, Chicago, Il., USA
Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, 1998, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, US
Harold Brodkey, The Runaway Soul, 1991, St. Louis, Mo.
Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, 1991, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Long Island, NY, as well as Queens, NY, and Michigan, USA
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business - 1970 - Deptford, Canada
Carol Shields, Unless, 2002. One hour north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
John Grisham, A Painted House. 2000. A farm in Arkansas.
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976. San Francisco, CA. New Orleans, LA. Paris, France. New Orleans, LA.
Michael Oondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter, 1976, New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana
John Dufresne, Louisiana Power & Light, 1994, Monroe, La.
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer, 1961, New Orleans, La.
Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding, 1946, Itta Bena (the Delta) Ms.
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, 1929. Yokanapatawpha County (Oxford, MS).
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! 1936. Jefferson, in Yoknapatawpha County (Oxford, Mississippi).
Frederick Barthelme, Painted Desert, 1995, Biloxi, Mississippi (origin), Los Angeles (destination), Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Arizona desert
William Faulkner, The Hamlet, 1940, Mississippi
Mohja Kahf, Girl With A Tangerine Headscarf, 2007,
Indiana USA, Syria, and Mecca, Arabia
James Agee, A Death in the Family, 1957. Knoxville, TN.
Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, 1979, Knoxville, Tn.
Ian Fleming, Goldfinger, 1959, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird; 1960, Alabama
Laura Esquivel, Like Water For Chocolate, 1992, Mexico
Kevin Patterson, Consumption, 2007. Rankin Inlet, Quebec, Canada, Yonkers, NY, and Newark, NJ
John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany, 1989, New Hampshire
Alice McDermott, That Night, 1999, Queens, New York, USA
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951. New York City
Yael Goldstein, Overture, 2007. Cambridge, Mass, NYC, and major stops in Vienna, Austria, and Krakow, Poland
Kate Christensen, In the Drink ,1999, NYC , USA
Marge Piercy, Woman On The Edge Of Time, 1976, Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Wing, New York City
Andrew Vacchs, Strega, 1987, New York City
Yona Zeldis McDonough, The Four Temperaments, 2003, NYC with stops in San Francisco, CA, and Tijuana, Mexico
Judy Blume, Forever, 1975, New Jersey, USA
Paul Rudnick, Social Disease, 1986. Manhattan, New York, USA
William Gaddis, Carpenter's Gothic, 1985, Long Island, NY.
Walter Mosley, The Man In My Basement, 2004, Sag Harbor, New York, USA
Kate Christensen, The Epicure's Lament, 2003, rural Massachusetts, USA
John Jay Osborn,Jr., The Paper Chase, 1970, Cambridge, MA, USA
JD Salinger, Franny and Zooey, 1961, Wellesley, MA (?) & New York City, USA
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, 1881. Albany, NY. England. Florence, Italy. Rome, Italy. England.
Annie Proulx, The Shipping News, 1993, Newfoundland
Zadie Smith, On Beauty, 2005, New England and London
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, 2004, Cambridge, Mass, New Haven, CT, Delhi, India and NYC
Phillip Roth, The Human Stain, 2000, small New England Town, Boston
Tom Perotta, Little Children, 2004, suburban Boston, Mass.
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, 1996, Boston metro, Ma.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick. 1851. The sea off New Bedford and Nantucket.
Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True, 1998, Connecticut, USA
Andrea Barrett - The Voyage of the Narwhal - 1998 - Arctic Ocean; Philadelphia
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity, 1980, La Ciotat, France; Zurich,Switzerland; Paris, France; Washington, D.C.
Sujata Massey, The Typhoon Lover, 2005, Washington, D.C., USA / Japan
Edward Jones, The Known World: 2001, Commonwealth of Virginia, USA
Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese, 2003. Three Chimneys, Virginia, USA.
Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons, 2006, North Carolina
Eggers, Dave, What Is The What, 2006, Sudan mostly but also Ethiopia, Kenya, and Atlanta, GA, USA
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998, primarily set in the jungle of the Congo (referred to as Zaire in the book) with visits to Kinshasa; Sanderling Island, Georgia; and Atlanta, Georgia
Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood, 1952, Macon, Ga.
Gary Shteyngart, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, 2002. New York City; Miami; and perhaps Prague.
Jean Rhys, The Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966, Jamaica
Sarah Pemberton Steele, Burning the Sea, 2002, Dominican Republic
Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies, 1994, Salcedo, Dominican Republic and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with stops in Santiago, DR, and San Francisco de Marcoris, DR
Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana - 1958 - Havana, Cuba
Herman Wouk, Don’t Stop The Carnival ,1971, Amerigo, Caribbean
Matthew Kneale, English Passengers, 2001, London, U.K., Tasmania, Australia, the Isle of Man; the West Indies; Cape Colony (now Cape Town, South Africa), and Melbourne, Australia
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003, unidentifiable post-apocalypse North America
William Melvin Kelley, A Different Drummer, 1962, A mythical--Faulknerian--southern state of the US.
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