I love how some novels have a strong connection to the geography or landscape. It doesn’t necessarily need to be like a “character” but at least where you learn something new about a region, the city/town is known because of the book etc. Thanks!
Books I’ve read that do this:
East of Eden
The River We Remember
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Giver of Stars
Charming Billy
Ramadan Ramsey
The Overstory
Little and Often
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Prince of Tides
Lonesome Dove
Gone with the Wind
Books by David Michener and Edward Rutherford
Anything set in the PNW with a publisher’s weekly or Kirkus review that calls it “atmospheric” is set in the Washington rain forest or on the coast, and features approximately 240 inches of annual rainfall, which *no one will shut up about*.
Also, Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin. A River Runs Through It, Norman McLean. The Brothers K by David James Duncan does this in parts.
Thank you!
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott,
The Offing by Benjamin Myers,
Death comes for the archbishop by Wila Cather,
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
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