This is pretty vague, but I want to read a book where the author is clearly in love with the place/time their book is set in. An example would be East of Eden, where it's clear that John Steinbeck has immense experience with and appreciation for the Salinas Valley where the story is set.
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Skin of the Lion by Michael Ondaatje makes Toronto a character in the book basically. Just Kids by Patti Smith is as much a love letter to New York in the 70s as it is to Robert Maplethorpe.
*Servant of the Underworld*, by Aliette de Bodard. Tenochtitlan is the capital of the Aztec empire, the place setting for the novel, and a character as well. The homes, temples, pyramids, canals and most definitely the floating fields of maize are indelibly woven into the story, and have both a physical and a metaphysical presence. First in the *Obsidian and Blood* trilogy.
Do memoirs count?
*The Favored Daughter* by Fawzia Koofi. Koofi was the first woman to be elected as Speaker of the Parliament of Afghanistan in 2005, and her memoir is filled with love for her land and her people, as well as a hope for the future that kinda hurts reading it nowadays. She had hoped the Taliban would stay gone, arguing that they represented some of the worst of Afghanistan, but… here we are.
Stephen King was on a real nostalgia trip when he wrote **11/22/63**. A man goes back in time in an attempt to prevent the assassination of JFK.
Gary Jennings. Aztec, The Journeyer, Raptor, and Spangle.
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery