Prompts

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

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

1954 • 1,335 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

Dune

1965 • 3,980 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

The Way of Kings

2010 • 2,429 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

Piranesi

2019 • 2,030 Readers • 273 pages 4.2

The Fifth Season

2015 • 1,938 Readers • 421 pages 4.3

Mistborn: The Final Empire

2006 • 2,909 Readers • 541 pages 4.4

The Lies of Locke Lamora

2006 • 1,601 Readers • 745 pages 4.3

The Night Circus

2011 • 1,707 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

Annihilation

2014 • 1,315 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

The Books of Earthsea

1993 • 74 Readers • 1,008 pages 4

A Game of Thrones

1996 • 2,761 Readers • 819 pages 4.4

Jade City

2017 • 1,257 Readers • 498 pages 4.1

Roadside Picnic

1972 • 434 Readers • 249 pages 4

A Memory Called Empire

2019 • 937 Readers • 464 pages 4.2

Uprooted

2015 • 825 Readers • 448 pages 4

The Golden Compass

1995 • 1,650 Readers • 399 pages 4

American Gods

2001 • 2,232 Readers • 558 pages 4

The Shadow of the Torturer

1980 • 432 Readers • 276 pages 3.6

Perdido Street Station

2000 • 539 Readers 4

The City of Brass

2017 • 845 Readers • 533 pages 4.1

Lirael

2001 • 215 Readers • 460 pages 4.2

Gardens of the Moon

1999 • 1,005 Readers • 559 pages 4

An Ember in the Ashes

2015 • 690 Readers • 481 pages 4.2

The City We Became

2020 • 787 Readers 3.9

Into the Labyrinth

2018 • 21 Readers • 214 pages 4.3

Soulless

2009 • 310 Readers • 357 pages 3.9

City of Miracles

2016 • 105 Readers • 448 pages 4.5

Throne of Glass

2012 • 1,347 Readers • 432 pages 3.9

Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners

1986 • 107 Readers • 269 pages 3

The Subtle Knife

1995 • 756 Readers • 326 pages 4.1

The Amber Spyglass

2000 • 677 Readers • 518 pages 4

Foundation

1951 • 1,572 Readers • 255 pages 4

Tongue Eater

2022 • 21 Readers • 577 pages 4

Finch

2009 • 36 Readers • 339 pages 4.1

Hyperion

1989 • 1,489 Readers • 481 pages 4.3

The Briar Book of the Dead

2024 • 19 Readers • 368 pages 5

Ancillary Justice

2013 • 827 Readers • 416 pages 4

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

1962 • 839 Readers • 146 pages 4

Fly by Night

2005 • 31 Readers • 487 pages 3.8

The Darkness Outside Us

2021 • 158 Readers • 416 pages 4

A Deadly Education

2020 • 1,001 Readers • 236 pages 4

Neverwhere

1996 • 1,279 Readers • 480 pages 4.1

Helliconia Summer

1982 • 19 Readers • 416 pages 3.2

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

2004 • 1,073 Readers • 1,028 pages 4

The Mask of Mirrors

2021 • 234 Readers • 672 pages 4.3

Spiritwalk

1992 • 10 Readers • 380 pages 4

Burn for me

2014 • 102 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

The Dreaming Place

1990 • 5 Readers • 138 pages 5

The Tombs of Atuan

1970 • 347 Readers • 196 pages 4

Gideon the Ninth

2019 • 1,429 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

A Face Like Glass

2012 • 50 Readers • 529 pages 4.2

The Martian

2011 • 2,665 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

Red Rising

2014 • 2,269 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

Fairy Tale

2022 • 808 Readers • 608 pages 4

Crown of Midnight

2013 • 813 Readers • 420 pages 4.3

Nine Princes in Amber

1970 • 259 Readers • 175 pages 3.6

Winter's Tale

1983 • 83 Readers • 708 pages 3.8

The Eye of the World

1990 • 1,677 Readers • 708 pages 4

The Heritage of Hastur

1975 • 11 Readers • 381 pages 3.5

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

2015 • 422 Readers • 400 pages 3.8

The Priory of the Orange Tree

2018 • 1,398 Readers • 849 pages 4.1

Child of the River

1997 • 7 Readers • 336 pages 4.3

Artemis

2015 • 1,190 Readers • 305 pages 3.6

The Saga of the Witcher

2020 • 4 Readers • 1,956 pages

Malice

2012 • 662 Readers • 640 pages 4

The Magic of Recluce

1991 • 111 Readers • 508 pages 3.7

House of Leaves

1999 • 1,202 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

Cover 3

213 Readers • 100 pages 3.3

The City & The City

2009 • 453 Readers • 336 pages 4

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

1997 • 4,555 Readers • 309 pages 4.3

Neuromancer

1984 • 1,530 Readers • 271 pages 3.9

We Hunt the Flame

2019 • 386 Readers • 384 pages 3.7

A Study in Drowning

2023 • 451 Readers 3.6

A Magic Steeped in Poison

2022 • 330 Readers • 352 pages 3.8

Perelandra

1943 • 104 Readers • 216 pages 4

Wool

2011 • 1,028 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

The Curse of Chalion

2001 • 299 Readers 4.2

Dark Matter

2016 • 1,907 Readers • 340 pages 4

The Many Coloured Land & The Golden Torc

2005 • 2 Readers • 788 pages 4.5