Prompts

What's your favorite scifi or fantasy with a strong sense of place?

By
@DrTalos
Chris

I'm interested in new genre books where the setting is almost like a character. I'm especially interested in books that also have a strong plot. For me, the prime example is "Finch" by Jeff vandermeer. Maybe "City of Miracles" by Robert Jackson Bennett. What are books like this for you?

The Lord of the Rings
Dune
The Way of Kings
Piranesi
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Annihilation
The Fifth Season
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Night Circus
The Return of the King
The Books of Earthsea
A Game of Thrones
Roadside Picnic
Uprooted
The Golden Compass
A Memory Called Empire
The City of Brass
A Deadly Education
Jade City
Foundation
Lirael
American Gods
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Martian
Perdido Street Station
The Amber Spyglass
Neverwhere
An Ember in the Ashes
Gardens of the Moon
Hyperion
Throne of Glass
The Tombs of Atuan
The Subtle Knife
Into the Labyrinth
Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Soulless
Tongue Eater
Finch
The City We Became
Wool
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Nine Princes in Amber
The Hobbit
City of Miracles
The Dreaming Place
Fly by Night
The Darkness Outside Us
Dark Matter
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Saga of the Witcher
The Heritage Of Hastur
Ready Player One
Shadow and Bone
Spiritwalk
Burn for me
Ancillary Justice
Gideon the Ninth
A Face Like Glass
Red Rising
Perelandra
Neuromancer
The City & The City
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Helliconia Summer
The Mask of Mirrors
The Eye of the World
Fairy Tale
Crown of Midnight
Child of the River
The Briar Book of the Dead
The Host
Ender's Game
Out of the Silent Planet
NausicaƤ of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series
The Many Coloured Land & The Golden Torc
Eragon
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Truthwitch
Heroes Die
A Study in Drowning
In the Belly of the Whale
A Magic Steeped in Poison
The Curse of Chalion
The Ginger Star
Seveneves
Malice
Adventure in Forgotten Valley
Winter's Tale
The Days of the Deer
Zodiac Academy: The Awakening
Children of Time
We Hunt the Flame
Siege and Storm
Black Sun
House of Leaves
Artemis
Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 6
The Magic of Recluce
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
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