Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Favorite Book Settings.

Hello Readers! I love books in which the setting becomes almost another character because they make such an impact, making it hard to imagine the story without the location. Today I’ll be sharing ten books I’ve read with memorable settings. I won’t be including any fantasy here because that would be too hard to choose. I feel like fantasy settings are intended to be another character, they’re so important. And I’ve tried to pick a mix of well-known and lesser known books to keep things interesting. 🙂

Let’s see what I chose! In no particular order.

(Link to Goodreads synopsis through book title.)

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1. Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch – I could have put any three of Welch’s Love & books here. All of them have settings that make the books what they are. This one is set in one of my top dream destinations—Greece!
2. Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson – One of my favorite reads this year, the setting of the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s helped make this book one I don’t think I’ll ever forget.
3. Christmas at Frozen Falls by Kiley Dunbar – It doesn’t happen too often, but I think I enjoyed the setting of this book in Finnish Lapland more than the plot or characters. I was totally swept away and it was promptly added to my travel bucket list.
4. Enjoy the View by Sarah Morgenthaler – The location of fictional Moose Springs, Alaska in all of Morgenthaler’s books only enhances the romances, but climbing the mountain with the characters in this one made it even more memorable.
5. The Dry by Jane Harper – Set during a drought in Australia, I felt the oppressive heat while reading this one.
6. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins – One of my favorite books set in Paris, the city made this YA romance unforgettable.
7. The Soldier’s Wife by Margaret Leroy – I read this historical romance set in Guernsey before I read the book that made Guernsey most famous (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), and I fell in love with the setting.
8. The Shining by Stephen King – This one almost feels like cheating, but the setting of this book absolutely makes the story.
9. Beartown by Fredrik Bachman – The frigid setting of this book about a high school hockey team in Sweden had me reaching for the nearest blanket and hot drink.
10. The Rain Watcher by Tatiana De Rosnay – Another book set in Paris, but this one is during a period of non-stop rain that threatens to flood the Seine. I don’t remember a lot of the plot or characters from this book, but I remember the setting. It also helped that I read it during torrential rain here in Texas.

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Do we share any favorite book settings? Let me know in the comments!

Happy Wandering!