Globe

One of the best parts about books is how they can transport you to another place, another world, another time, or some combination of these. I’ve taken the books I’ve covered and read and laid them out with this in mind: a guide to where books can take you.

Afghanistan

• The Kite Runner

Canada

• The Call of the Wild

China

• Spider Eaters (non-fiction)
• Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Congo

• Heart of Darkness

Denmark

• Hamlet
• Number the Stars

Egypt

• The Alchemist

France

• The Da Vinci Code

Germany

• Blitzed (non-fiction)
• Frankenstein
• The Book Thief

Greece

• The Iliad
• The Odyssey

Italy

• Angels & Demons
• Romeo & Juliet

Japan

• 1Q84
• Memoirs of a Geisha

Mexico

• American Dirt

North Korea

• Without You, There Is No Us (non-fiction)

Norway

• A Doll’s House

Spain

• The Alchemist

Switzerland

• Frankenstein

United Kingdom

• Animal Farm
• Beowulf
• Macbeth
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• The Importance of Being Earnest

United States

• A Raisin in the Sun
• Adnan’s Story (non-fiction)
• At Home in the World (non-fiction)
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Bless Me, Ultima
• Death of a Salesman
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Invisible Man
• Looking for Alaska
• Long Bright River
• Lost Hills
• Miracle Creek
• Mr. Mercedes
• Paper Towns
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Color Purple
• The Crucible
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Joy Luck Club
• The Other Mrs.
• The Outsiders
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Secret Life of Bees
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Turtles All the Way Down
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

Open Air & Open Seas

• Alone With the Stars
• The Odyssey
• The Old Man & the Sea
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Future Earth

• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Brave New World
• Followers
• Hunger Games
  • Catching Fire
  • Mockingjay
• The Scorch Trials

Across Space / Time

• A Wrinkle in Time
• Artemis
• Ender’s Game
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• The Martian
• The Phantom Tollbooth

Another World Entirely

• Chronicles of Narnia
  • The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Gulliver’s Travels
• Harry Potter
  • and the Sorcerer’s Stone
  • and the Chamber of Secrets
  • and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • and the Goblet of Fire
  • and the Order of the Phoenix
  • and the Half-Blood Prince
  • and the Deathly Hallows
• Lord of the Rings
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Return of the King
  • The Two Towers
• The Hobbit
• Woven in Moonlight