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If You Could Live in the World of One Novel, Which One Would You Choose?

May 19, 2010 by Nathan Bransford

One of the joys of reading a novel is immersing yourself in a different world, whether it’s the verdant hills of Middle Earth, the magic around every corner at Hogwarts, the intrepid and dangerous seas aboard the Pequod, or spaceships and strange planets hitchhiking around the galaxy.

If you could pick one fictional world/setting/time period to live in, which one would it be?

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Moby-Dick, You Tell Me

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  1. R Elland says

    May 20, 2010 at 10:23 pm

    If I could live in a world of one novel…
    The World of Robert Heinlein's Number of the Beast would be it.
    Multiverses, adventure, near immortality, space, time. And family. All the things that a person who wants to really travel can do. That would be perfect for me.

    • R.D.M says

      August 8, 2021 at 8:50 pm

      I would like to live in Keeper of the lost cities by Shannon Messenger. Or Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

  2. Horserider says

    May 21, 2010 at 3:09 am

    Hogwarts, Pern, and to be original, Tortall from Tamora Pierce's books. Because I'm in love with Tortall. Or Pirate's Swoop would be even better…

  3. Steve Ulfelder says

    May 21, 2010 at 10:41 am

    I wouldn't mind living in Bertie Wooster's between-the-wars England. Needless to say, I'd invite myself to various magnificent estates as a long-term guest and stay sloshed all day. Might even luck into a locked-room mystery or two.

  4. MrWahoo says

    May 21, 2010 at 10:56 am

    Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe" or Kilgore Trout's "Venus on the Halfshell"

  5. Yen Ooi says

    May 21, 2010 at 11:06 am

    DUNE… definitely.

  6. Matt Heppe says

    May 21, 2010 at 1:15 pm

    The Shire before the War for the Ring. It would be a wonderful place to get away from the troubles of the world.

  7. Linda says

    May 21, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    Any mystical world would work for me, mid-century preferably. Since I can only pick one I am going to have to pick the world of Doctor Who, his world has no bounders; your imagination can go on forever.

  8. Anonymous says

    May 21, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    Any mystical world would work for me, mid-century preferably. Since I can only pick one I am going to have to pick the world of Doctor Who, his world has no bounders; your imagination can go on forever.

  9. Fawn Neun says

    May 21, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    Easy – Ankh-Morepork on Discworld.

  10. ecb says

    May 21, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    Caldwell, NY

  11. Alyssa says

    May 21, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    Narnia! Hands down. I would gladly live through all of them except The Last Battle.

  12. Nicole says

    May 21, 2010 at 9:44 pm

    Ironically you picked out two places I would totally love to be. Living in a world that has Hogwarts mean I can perform magic. Middle Earth…well honestly, what else is there to say about that?

    There was one other place I would totally go, but for the LIFE of me I cannot remember where it is or the book…that's going to drive me crazy all night now…

  13. Anonymous says

    May 21, 2010 at 9:56 pm

    Who wouldn't want to be a wizard and live at Hogwarts or Hogsmead?

  14. Carol Fleserieu-Miller says

    May 22, 2010 at 12:07 am

    I've been thinking about this question and have actually come up with an answer. Usually I say I don't have a favorite of this or that and am noncommittal (sp?)
    But, I went to see Avatar twice. And, I don't do that very often. Both times, I came out of the theater wanting to be one of the 10foot tall, extremely athletic, spiritual, kind, loyal, fierce, courageous, loving, one with nature, blue bodied, scantily clad, tail with superconnection people on Avatar.

  15. Anonymous says

    May 22, 2010 at 9:43 pm

    Pride and Prejudice,but only if it could be the movie version and I can be Lizzy.Mr. Darcy would not be turned down with his first proposal.

  16. pOwldreamer says

    May 22, 2010 at 9:48 pm

    Ah,I would have to choose the first book in the In Death series by JD Robb. Roarke and Eve Dallas are the Lizzy and Darcy of the year 2058. I get to be Eve,thoug.

  17. Kathy M. says

    May 23, 2010 at 5:42 am

    I love the world I am in now, but love escaping to the the worlds of other imaginations for a time.

  18. Rebecca says

    May 23, 2010 at 6:10 pm

    D'Hara or the Midlands, from Terry Goodkinds "Sword of Truth" Series

  19. Eleanor Van Natta says

    May 24, 2010 at 4:01 am

    Ah, its a toss-up between Bronte's Wuthering Heights heather-filled hills and Gabaldon's "Outlander" series and her Scottish Highlands…but I ultimately agree with Josin McQuein in that I wouldn't actually, truly want to experience all that makes up those novels! Broken hearts and bodies abound…I will experience that via book, thank you.

  20. B.B. Walter says

    May 26, 2010 at 2:19 am

    Terre de Ange from the Kushiel Series…Or George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series.

  21. Marjorie says

    May 26, 2010 at 5:49 am

    I would like to live in the world of "Little Lulu." OK, that's not a novel. So I will pick living inside a Nancy Drew book.

  22. Gina Frost says

    May 29, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    I would want to live in Terry Goodkind's Midlands

  23. Kim Koning says

    May 29, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    Fantasia…with Atreyu, Falkor …. The Never Ending Story

  24. Mark says

    May 30, 2010 at 3:00 am

    Tom McGuane's, Deadrock, because I have.

  25. Anonymous says

    May 17, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    Warrior cats defiantely

  26. Anonymous says

    October 1, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    Warrior cats definately,but most people probably dont know what it is like i dont know what all this middle earth stuff is about…

  27. Alexandru Nuca says

    September 13, 2012 at 10:54 pm

    Dune… or Peter Mayle's South of France

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