Super Settings

Explore 'Super Settings'—a curated list of books with extraordinary settings. Discover immersive worlds and captivating backdrops in top literary works.

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Caravans

by James Albert Michener

In this romantic adventure of wild Afghanistan, master storyteller James Michener mixes the allure of the past with the dangers of today. After an impetuous …
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The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

Explores a cracked-up American family after their return to the ancestral home in Newfoundland.
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Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

An epic novel of Russia before and during the Revolution.
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The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.
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Gorky Park

by Martin Cruz Smith

"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season." ASSOCIATED PRESS A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, …
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Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner • A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense—one that leaves us shaken and changed. "Haunting .... …
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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both …
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Ship of Fools

by Katherine Anne Porter

The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Bremerhaven, Germany. The passenger list is long and portentous, …
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All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer …
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All Creatures Great and Small

by James Herriot

James Herriot reads from his books.
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A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

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Collected Short Stories

by William Somerset Maugham

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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

A group of expatriates travel from Paris to the Pamplona bullfights.
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Staggerford

by Jon Hassler

Portrays the closely-intertwined and often troubled lives of residents in the small town as seen through the eyes of Miles Pruitt, a much respected high …
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