For Top Ten Tuesday, I’ve curated a list of books with unique settings.
10 Books With Unique Settings
I’m linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl: Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set in Another Time. I’m tweaking this prompt a bit. All my books are set in another time, but they are also unique in some way.
Which book have you read with a unique setting?
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(books listed in no particular order)
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Setting: This story contains four very different settings in four different time periods. (1) a myth; (2) 1400s Constantinople; (3) 1950s Idaho; (4) Sometime in the future: Spaceship. Doerr brilliantly links these stories in very different time periods with a common thread (literature!). Have you read it?
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
Setting: 1400s China.
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Setting: 1500s England.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Setting: (imagined) Narnia
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Setting: (imagined) Panem
The Woman With the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff
Setting: a Krakow, Poland sewer system during WWII
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Setting: (1862) Graveyard, Purgatory
The Women of Chateau Layfette by Stephanie Dray
Setting: Chateau Lafayette, France (French Revolution, WWI, WWII)
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Setting: Biblical Times
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Setting: Outer Space
(you’re not surprised that I managed to include PHM in this list are you?!)
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Which book have you read with the most unique setting?
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I’ve read two on your list. The Hunger Games, and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe when I was younger. Heard lots of positive things about Lady Tan’s Circle of Women. Here’s my list: https://damppebbles.com/2025/02/25/toptentuesday-25th-february-2025/
So many great settings! Hopping over to read your list!
Nice tweak Carol, and no I’m not surprised that you included PHM! 😂
Thanks Nicki! 🙌
Project Hail Mary is a title I’ve seen so many good things about and I’m very keen to check it out. Hopefully, it will happen this year! Great list 🙂
I hope PHM is in your reading future! Highly recommend audio format for a fabulous reading!
I’ve heard good things about Hamnet.
Such a memorable story!
Great list! It’s fun to “visit” all of these settings!
Thanks! A fun and easy week for histfic fans!
Project Hail Mary was such a good read.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
I’m always thrilled to include it on a list! Hopping over to read your post!
Great list Carol. I’ve read a few of these. I loved The Red Tent.It’s so interesting to see the variety on everyone’s lists.
So many great settings!
I tend not to read much in the way of sci-fi or fantasy. Most of my reads are set in the real world, though in various time periods.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/favorite-historical-fiction-reads-from-2024/
Yes I prefer realistic fiction as well!
There are so many good books on this list! I loved Cloud Cuckoo Land and Project Hail Mary.
So many great settings! Thanks for stopping by!
It must makes me happy to see Project Hail Mary on your list!
My goal is to get it on as many lists as possible! 😍 Thanks for stopping by!
This is a fun spin on the prompt! Other than imaginary places like Narnia and Hogwarts, I don’t know that I’ve read many books set in really unique places. Hmmm…now, you’ve got me thinking 🙂
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
It was fun to think about Susan! Hopping over to read your post…
I like how you did time and place, Carol. I have read several of these, but never Cloud Cuckoo Land. It sounds interesting. Great list.
Thanks Carla! Cuckoo Land is an ambitious read but cleverly done! I had to take notes in the beginning! Definitely tbr worthy.
That’s an interesting twist to the topic. I quite like that. Cloud Cuckoo Land and Hamnet are on my TBR pile but I’ve read quite a few of the others.
Here is my list:
https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/top-ten-tuesday-another-time.html
Thanks Marianne! I hope you enjoy those two when you get to them!
I am sure I will. Thanks, Carol. And thanks for visiting my post.
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