December 5: Ten Bookish Settings I’d Love to Visit
I’ve stuck to real world places this week (although, of course they’re all from SFF novels), so these are all places you really could visit — although in a couple of cases your timing might be a little out.
All Souls College, Oxford, England — A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Yorkshire Moors, England — Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Melaka City, Malaysia — The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
Norton Conyers, England — Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Versailles, Paris, France — The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Egypt — The Blazing Star by Imani Josey
Kings Cross Station, London, England — Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
University of Ingolstadt, Munich, Germany (closed in 1800, but modelled on the University of Vienna, shown above) — Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Empire State Building, New York City, USA — The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
All Souls is BEAUTIFUL. I’ve never been inside because it’s difficult to get in, but I’ve walked past it countless times on my way to study in the Radcliffe Camera and even looking through the gate is a breathtaking view.
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It’s somewhere I’d really like to go, even if just to peer in XD
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I love how you used real places! Honestly, I like it so much better than fictional places because you can actually visit them. 😉
I’ve been to Versailles and King’s Cross and it was so wonderful! I wasn’t really into books back then, so I’m a little sad I didn’t enjoy the bookish side of it more, hehe!
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Haha! I’ve been to Kings Cross and I love that they’ve really embraced the platform 9 3/4 thing. I loved Versailles too, but at the time I didn’t have a particular book in mind either.
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Wonderful list! I’d love to visit places featured in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Thanks for visiting my post.
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That moody, Gothic aesthetic really appeals to me too. 🙂
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Absolutely love how you included photos into your post. Sign me up to go to NYC too haha!! Can you imagine how beautiful it is during the Christmas season!?!? EEK!! Great job ❤
My Top 10 Bookish places to Visit
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I love how unashamedly into the holidays New York gets. XD The UK just doesn’t seem to throw itself into Halloween/ Christmas in the same way.
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All Souls and King Cross would be on my list for sure, and Egypt too for that matter!
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This is so cool!
I am a fan of fictional settings, but if places from our own world are mentioned, it’s exciting as well, cause you ACTUALLY can go there 😀
I’d love to visit Versailles and Egypt and I’ve been to Ho Chi Minh, but only the airport. Would like to visit Vietnam again properly. I didn’t even know Artemis Fowl played there, that’s awesome!
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Great list, and love that the settings are real life places that can actually be visited.
Have a great week.
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Thanks! 🙂
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I really want to go to England. It’s at the top of my travel list, probably because I’ve read so many books set there.
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Love the places you picked!
My OH really isn’t a fan of Paris, but since books continue to make me want to visit places and I have yet to read The Gentleman’s Guide… I think I’ll be whining his head off to go to Paris anyway, haha.
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Haha! Paris isn’t my favourite city, but I’m sure you’ll find something there to appeal to him.
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I hope so but I kind of doubt it, haha. He never had a thing for France and apparently his ex just dragged him there. Pretty sure that made him loathe it even more. :’)
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Some very cool places on your list!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/top-ten-tuesday-136/
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Thanks 🙂
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🙂
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Love the idea of re places we can actually visit 🙂 Versailles and King’s Cross are closest to me and I’ve never actually visited them, such a shame 😉
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It’s the places nearest to me that I seem to forget to visit XD
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I love how you’ve chosen places you can actually visit, even if it is different to how they may be in the books. They’re all beautiful places to, from natural beauty to breathtaking architecture. Fantastic list!
My TTT: https://dysfanreads.blogspot.co.uk/
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I’ve never read ‘Witches,’ but with the new show coming, I’ll confess, there is some curiosity there. 🙂
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That was my reasoning too 🙂
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Nice perspective for a post about tourism, you have original travel literature with you;)
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Thank you 🙂
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