BOOKED

This practical armchair travel guide explores 80 of the most iconic literary locations from all over the globe that you can actually visit.

A must-have for every fan of literature, BOOKED inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters' footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels. The full-color photographs throughout reveal the settings readers have imagined again and again in their favorite books.

Organized by regions, author Richard Kreitner explains the importance of each literary landmark including the connection to the author and novel, cultural significance, and little-known facts about the location. He also includes practival travel advice like addresses.

Locations include:
- Central Park, NYC (The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger)
- Forks, Washington (Twilight, Stephanie Meyer)
- Kingston Penitentiary, Ontario (Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood)
- Holcomb, Kansas (In Cold Blood, Truman Capote)
- Paris, France (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo)
- Segovia, Spain, (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway)
- Umuofia, Nigeria (Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe)
- Kyoto, Japan (Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden)

Richard Kreitner is a contributing writer at The Nation magazine. His work on politics, history, and literature has also appeared in Slate, The Baffler, and The Boston Globe.