I found this awesomely nerdy idea to make a map of all the places you “read” in the year on a post at write meg! (who was inspired by Reading on a Rainy Day). basically, you set up a Google map and pin all the settings of the books you read. I couldn’t include books with indiscernible settings (some non-fiction books) or fully fictional and non-Earthly (Middle Earth in The Hobbit, for example), but I had a lot of fun looking back and seeing on one map where I “traveled” last year! Lots in the United States, but several all over the world, too. I read more books set in Western, South, and Southeast Asia than I would have guessed from myself, and less in Europe. But in pretty much every case, I was completely transported.

Some memorable settings in the United States:

• Madison, Wisconsin
• Jackson, Mississippi
• Detroit, Michigan
• New York, New York
• Appalachian Trail
• Arcadia, New York

Some memorable settings outside the United States:

• Naples, Italy
• Coastline of Ligurian Sea, Italy
• Mumbai, India
• Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Kabul, Afghanistan
• Mt. Everest, Sagarmatha, Nepal
• Drăgăneşti, Romania
• Hiroshima, Japan
• South Vietnam