Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.
July 19: Ten Books Set Outside The US
I’m going to restrict this list to books set in the real world. I could list 100 books set in fantasy of sci-fi worlds, but that seems too easy. Also I’m listing them from the most recently read, and I’ll stop when I hit ten. It will be interesting to see how far back I need to go to reach that number.
- The Strangler Vine – India
- Seven Against Thebes – Greece
Shadowland: A Tale From The Dark Ages – England
- Avalon: The Return of King Arthur – England
- Number the Stars – Denmark
- The Moonlight Palace – Singapore
- Artful – England
- The Defender – Siberia
- The Persians – Persia/Greece
These books took me back to June 2013. I skipped over a couple of fantasies that were set in alternative versions of England (although you could argue that Artful falls into that category. But since its based on Oliver twist, I’m going to let it slide.)
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I almost put Number the Stars.
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Thank for stopping by my blog. I loved Number the Stars, I like the quiet heroism of the Danes during WWII.
Good list. Love Stephen Lawhead. I, too had to go fairly far back into my read books to find enough I liked for my list 🙂
Stephen R Lawhead is my favorite author. I didn’t list several of his books because the “Worlds” they are set in are much more fantastical than real. But Avalon has a feeling ,like this really could happen in a modern day Great Britain.