Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Places In Books I’d Love to Live. This was a bit of a challenge, but in the end, I have 9 places — some real, some fictional — that I’d love to at least visit, and maybe possibly live… and one place (although I’m sure I could come up with a lot more) that I definitely don’t want to go anywhere near!
1. Lallybroch: The Fraser family home in the Scottish Highlands, from Outlander. Lallybroch is fictional, but the Highlands and all of Scotland are a dream destination for me.
2. The House in the Cerulean Sea (from the book by the same name, by TJ Klune) — I love the description of the house and sea and the forest!
3. Pemberley: I’d be happy to live at Mr. Darcy’s estate forever!
4. Elfhame: From the Folk of the Air books by Holly Black, I think I’d like to at least vacation in Elfhame to see the beauty and the strangeness of the faerie kingdom — but with a great deal of caution, because they really aren’t particularly kind to mortals there.
5. Anywhere in Alaska, particularly the parts described in the Kate Shugak series by Dana Stabenow. Although maybe just in the spring and summer. Winters? Brrrrrrr.
6. Prince Edward Island: An absolute dream of mind is to visit PEI and visit all the beautiful spots described in Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon!
7. Australia: I’ve never been, and I’d love to visit to see the landscapes described in books such as The Thorn Birds and The Exiles.
8. Tuscany: So many books describe this gorgeous region. My most recent read set there, My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith, convinced me that I need to go to see the landscapes and eat the amazing food.
9. Willow Creek, Maryland — a fictional location that hosts the amazing Renaissance Faires portrayed in Jen DeLuca’s Well Met and Well Played.
10. Please do NOT send me anywhere near the Scholomance, the school of magic in Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education. I don’t think I’d survive even my first hour there.
What bookish locations are your dream destinations? Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Pemberly made it to my list too! Love this list and your picture choices, really set off my wanderlust.
https://readingrecluses.wordpress.com/2021/03/30/top-ten-tuesday-places-in-books-id-love-to-live/
Of course, I’d want the full Pemberley experience if I lived there — pretty gowns, fancy balls, and having my every whim catered to!
Elfhame sure sounds cool!
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-places-in-books-id-love-to-live/
I love it in the books so much!
I love your list! I had never thought of Pemberley but I would love to live there too. And yikes, the Scholomance is my biggest nightmare😬
The Scholomance is terrifying! I think I’d be eaten by some horrible thing within stepping foot inside.
I’m so with you on Scotland. I visited years ago and still remember it vividly. Great post, Lisa💜
Ah, I’m so jealous you’ve been to Scotland! It’s an absolute dream for me, and eventually, post-pandemic, I need to make it happen!
I always wanted to live in Rivendell from LOTR but idk if the elves would want me there 🙂
Same! I’d love to spend time there, but I get the feeling I wouldn’t be very welcome.
Great list! I have House on the Cerulean Sea on my list too!
Such a terrific book! I want to read it again sometime this year.
Me too! It’s so good!
Brilliant take!! I love the look of elfhame and living in p+p would be amazing haha. Here’s my ttt ☺️ https://hundredsandthousandsofbooks.blog/2021/03/30/ttt-30-3-21-books-coming-out-in-summer-2021-i-need/
Definitely fun to think about settling into these fictional worlds!
Ha, Elfhame made my list this week, with the exact same precautions!
Right – trust no one, don’t eat the food, don’t start dancing… it’s dangerous!
Yes! … and those are all the things I’d want to do, so who only knows how long I’d last. 😂
Sorry I came across this wonderful post so late, but better late than never! You have some great choices here: Lallybroch, Pemberley, and Price Edward Island are my favorites. Of course, survival is a very important question, so Lallybroch may not work out either…
Very true, Lallybroch also has its share of dangers, particularly in the 18th century!
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