Books Set in Small Towns and Villages

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Spaar de spotvogels
door Harper Lee
78,437 leden
1,433 besprekingen
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sturlington: Small town in Alabama
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Middlemarch
door George Eliot
17,707 leden
330 besprekingen
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Revolutionary Road
door Richard Yates
6,789 leden
246 besprekingen
4
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Emma
door Jane Austen
37,943 leden
505 besprekingen
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sturlington: English village
5
De glazen stolp
door Sylvia Plath
28,092 leden
501 besprekingen
4
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sturlington: Massachusetts suburbs
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Middlesex
door Jeffrey Eugenides
27,136 leden
631 besprekingen
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sturlington: Detroit suburbs.
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Het hart is een eenzame jager
door Carson McCullers
10,717 leden
243 besprekingen
4
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De moord op Roger Ackroyd
door Agatha Christie
9,991 leden
324 besprekingen
4.1
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sturlington: English village
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De wetten van het land
door Jane Smiley
6,165 leden
136 besprekingen
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sturlington: Small town in Iowa
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Ons Stadje
door Thornton Wilder
5,081 leden
69 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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De correcties
door Jonathan Franzen
16,580 leden
340 besprekingen
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Scheepsberichten
door E. Annie Proulx
13,430 leden
250 besprekingen
3.9
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sturlington: Small town in Newfoundland and Labrador
13
De Nieuwe juf van Avonlea
door L. M. Montgomery
12,536 leden
143 besprekingen
4.1
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De jungle
door Upton Sinclair
11,626 leden
129 besprekingen
3.8
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15
Aan het prikken van mijn duimen
door Ray Bradbury
11,369 leden
296 besprekingen
3.9
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sturlington: Green Town, Illinois
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De noodzaak
door Stephen King
10,812 leden
122 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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sturlington: Castle Rock, Maine
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Insomnia
door Stephen King
10,601 leden
119 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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sturlington: Derry, Maine
18
Empire Falls
door Richard Russo
8,776 leden
182 besprekingen
3.9
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Stilleven
door Louise Penny
6,689 leden
424 besprekingen
3.8
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sturlington: Small town in Quebec
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Winesburg, Ohio
door Sherwood Anderson
5,927 leden
120 besprekingen
3.8
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At Home in Mitford
door Jan Karon
5,647 leden
106 besprekingen
3.9
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Wives and Daughters
door Elizabeth Gaskell
4,102 leden
86 besprekingen
4.1
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Cycle of the Werewolf
door Stephen King
3,221 leden
73 besprekingen
½ 3.4
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sturlington: Small town in Maine
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De vrouwen van Stepford
door Ira Levin
3,064 leden
91 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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sturlington: Connecticut suburbs
25
Effi Briest
door Theodor Fontane
2,211 leden
32 besprekingen
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Eifelheim
door Michael Flynn
1,109 leden
68 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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sturlington: Village in medieval Germany
27
Riders in the Chariot
door Patrick White
681 leden
20 besprekingen
4.1
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thorold: suburban Australia like you've never seen it before
28
The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
door Mark Twain
32,869 leden
324 besprekingen
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sturlington
29
Donker Hart - Verloren Vrouw
door Gillian Flynn
22,078 leden
1,542 besprekingen
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30
De zomer van Winn-Dixie
door Kate DiCamillo
15,218 leden
562 besprekingen
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Winter
door Elizabeth Strout
9,902 leden
620 besprekingen
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sturlington
32
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
door Fannie Flagg
8,916 leden
188 besprekingen
4.1
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33
Year of Wonders
door Geraldine Brooks
8,716 leden
414 besprekingen
4
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Malayalam Retold)
door Thomas Hardy
8,308 leden
113 besprekingen
3.9
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35
We hebben altijd in het kasteel gewoond
door Shirley Jackson
8,138 leden
423 besprekingen
4.1
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36
Chocolat
door Joanne Harris
7,816 leden
200 besprekingen
3.8
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37
De kleine vriend
door Donna Tartt
7,235 leden
158 besprekingen
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sturlington
38
Dertien
door David Mitchell
5,271 leden
215 besprekingen
4
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De kleine vreemdeling
door Sarah Waters
5,084 leden
343 besprekingen
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sturlington
40
Alas, Babylon
door Pat Frank
4,936 leden
144 besprekingen
4
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sturlington: Small town in Florida
41
De torens van Barchester
door Anthony Trollope
4,917 leden
106 besprekingen
4.2
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42
Cranford
door Elizabeth Gaskell
4,535 leden
132 besprekingen
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The Warden (03)
door Anthony Trollope
4,363 leden
129 besprekingen
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Cold Sassy Tree
door Olive Ann Burns
4,148 leden
86 besprekingen
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De hoofdstraat
door Sinclair Lewis
4,109 leden
75 besprekingen
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Het heilige vuur
door Ellis Peters
3,937 leden
103 besprekingen
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47
Christy
door Catherine Marshall
3,657 leden
44 besprekingen
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Ordinary Grace
door William Kent Krueger
2,731 leden
197 besprekingen
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Verloren illusies
door Honoré de Balzac
2,484 leden
31 besprekingen
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thorold: The first part is set in Angoulême (but the rest is mostly Paris)
50
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
door Tom Franklin
2,430 leden
256 besprekingen
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De geboren moordenaar
door Jim Thompson
2,404 leden
87 besprekingen
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Under the Greenwood Tree
door Thomas Hardy
2,236 leden
32 besprekingen
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Het avonduur
door Kent Haruf
1,870 leden
80 besprekingen
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The Last Picture Show
door Larry McMurtry
1,865 leden
52 besprekingen
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
door Rob Sheffield
1,853 leden
65 besprekingen
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De laatste troef
door Annie Proulx
1,808 leden
27 besprekingen
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Peyton Place
door Grace Metalious
1,679 leden
38 besprekingen
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De zoete toekomst
door Russell Banks
1,661 leden
35 besprekingen
4
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sturlington: Small New York community
59
A Redbird Christmas
door Fannie Flagg
1,615 leden
87 besprekingen
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The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
door Richard Peck
1,595 leden
47 besprekingen
4
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Dying for Chocolate
door Diane Mott Davidson
1,558 leden
22 besprekingen
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sturlington
62
A Land More Kind than Home
door Wiley Cash
1,305 leden
112 besprekingen
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sturlington
63
Don Camillo en de kleine wereld
door Giovannino Guareschi
1,298 leden
36 besprekingen
4.2
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Little Heathens
door Mildred Armstrong Kalish
1,137 leden
43 besprekingen
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Benediction
door Kent Haruf
1,124 leden
100 besprekingen
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dara85
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Queen Lucia
door E. F. Benson
1,119 leden
48 besprekingen
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thorold: Cotswold village taken over by posh Londoners
67
A Gathering of Old Men
door Ernest J. Gaines
1,043 leden
26 besprekingen
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Universal Harvester
door John Darnielle
978 leden
61 besprekingen
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69
World Made By Hand
door James Howard Kunstler
970 leden
56 besprekingen
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sturlington: Small New York town
70
De kerk van de dode meisjes
door Stephen Dobyns
955 leden
27 besprekingen
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sturlington: Small New York town
71
Mapp and Lucia
door E. F. Benson
948 leden
29 besprekingen
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thorold: Rye
72
South Riding
door Winifred Holtby
932 leden
41 besprekingen
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Air: Or, Have Not Have
door Geoff Ryman
864 leden
31 besprekingen
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
door Stephen Leacock
769 leden
12 besprekingen
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Lapvona
door Ottessa Moshfegh
764 leden
23 besprekingen
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Village School
door Miss Read
763 leden
23 besprekingen
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Territory
door Emma Bull
737 leden
42 besprekingen
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sturlington: Tombstone, Arizona
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The Path
door Miguel Delibes
723 leden
54 besprekingen
4
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thorold: remote Spanish village
80
A Prayer for the Dying
door Stewart O'Nan
689 leden
39 besprekingen
4
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sturlington
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sturlington: Small Wisconsin town in late 19th century
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Everything You Want Me to Be
door Mindy Mejia
615 leden
69 besprekingen
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sturlington
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The Saturday Night Ghost Club
door Craig Davidson
610 leden
35 besprekingen
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sturlington
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Raney
door Clyde Edgerton
571 leden
7 besprekingen
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Een mooie plek om te sterven
door Malla Nunn
555 leden
39 besprekingen
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sturlington: Small South African town
85
Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead
door Barbara Comyns
542 leden
30 besprekingen
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A Short History of a Small Place
door T.R. Pearson
540 leden
8 besprekingen
4
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sturlington: Small North Carolina town
87
Clochemerle
door Gabriel Chevallier
476 leden
15 besprekingen
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thorold: French town debates construction of urinal
88
The Next Queen of Heaven
door Gregory Maguire
439 leden
41 besprekingen
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The Night Country
door Stewart O'Nan
369 leden
17 besprekingen
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sturlington
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sturlington: Small town in New England
90
Clayhanger
door Arnold Bennett
358 leden
9 besprekingen
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The Witchfinder's Sister
door Beth Underdown
353 leden
35 besprekingen
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sturlington
92
Uncivil Seasons
door Michael Malone
325 leden
9 besprekingen
4
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sturlington: Small North Carolina town
93
The Vendor of Sweets
door R. K. Narayan
322 leden
3 besprekingen
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thorold: Narayan wrote a long list of novels about the fictional small town of Malgudi in India
94
The Next Time You See Me
door Holly Goddard Jones
299 leden
30 besprekingen
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sturlington
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Postbode
door J. Robert Lennon
292 leden
2 besprekingen
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sturlington: Small town in New York
96
If, Then
door Kate Hope Day
260 leden
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sturlington
97
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
door Fred Chappell
238 leden
7 besprekingen
4
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sturlington: Town in the North Carolina mountains
98
The Card
door Arnold Bennett
237 leden
8 besprekingen
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thorold
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Het vuurpaleis
door Stephen Dobyns
236 leden
20 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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sturlington
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sturlington: Small town in Rhode Island
100
Assumption
door Percival Everett
167 leden
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