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What do you do when you're suffering from wanderlust, but have no imminent travel plans?  You read books with a vivid or evocative setting.  In today's episode, we share many book recommendations that are sure to satisfy that craving to explore someplace new, even if you can't make the trip in your real life.

Julia’s Books:

• The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis (Prague)
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (Bosnia)
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Rome)
•  Inferno by Dan Brown (Florence) 
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Paris)
• Origin by Dan Brown (Spain/Barcelona)
• Deception Point by Dan Brown (the Arctic)
• Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly (Paris)
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leone)
• Island Queen by Vanessa Riley (Caribbean)
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (South Carolina)
• The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (New York)
• Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (England)
• 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger (India)
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer (France)

Stephany’s Books:

• The Great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald (New York)
• Burn, Baby, Burn by Meg Medina (New York City)
• Something Wilder by Christina Lauren (Utah)
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Texas to Montana)
• Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen (South Carolina)
• The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton (Key West)
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (Alaska)
• The Float Plan by Trish Doller (Caribbean)
• The Layover by Lacey Waldon (Belize)
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Mexico)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexico)
• This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart (Corfu)
• The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart (Crete)
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Belgian Congo)
• The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo (Malaysia)
• Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce (New Caledonia)
• The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (Cornwall and London)

 Also mentioned:

• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• The Princess and the Frog (Walt Disney movie)
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• Prologue: An Introduction to the Show
• Chapter 4:  The Negative Superlatives of 2022 
• BONUS Chapter:  Favorite Books of 2022
• Chapter 6:  Winter Reading and Tempting Non-Fiction Books

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