List of fictional towns in literature
This is a list of fictional towns in literature.

List of fictional towns in literature

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Town name	Author	Origin	Notes

Algonquin Bay, Canada	Giles Blunt	Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season, By the Time You Read This, Crime Machine	Algonquin Bay is a small town in Northern Ontario, a fictionalized version of the city of North Bay.

Anchorage-in-Vineland	Philip Reeve	Mortal Engines Quartet	the static and stable version of the Traction City of Anchorage that had decided to stop wandering the Arctic wastes and settle in the green and unspoilt land of Vineland (a.k.a.

Ankh-Morpork	Sir Terry Pratchett	Discworld

River Heights	Carolyn Keene	Nancy Drew

Aramanth	William Nicholson	Wind On Fire	fictional walled city in the world of William Nicholson's Wind On Fire trilogy. It is destroyed in the second book, Slaves of the Mastery when Ortiz and his raiding company attack and take the whole population (minus Kestrel) as slaves for the Mastery.

Arkham	H.P. Lovecraft	H.P. Lovecraft's work & Cthulhu Mythos

Avonlea	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Anne of Green Gables

Barchester	Anthony Trollope	Chronicles of Barsetshire

Bayport	Franklin W. Dixon	The Hardy Boys

Bear Country	Stan and Jan Berenstain	The Berenstain Bears

Bibliopolis	Tom Sharpe	The Great Pursuit	Stereotypical Southern USA Bible Belt town.

Brackhampton	Agatha Christie	Miss Marple series

Bree	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings

Castle Rock	Stephen King	various novels

Cedar Cove	Debbie Macomber	Cedar Cove and Rose Harbor series	A quaint, picturesque town on an island in Puget Sound in Washington state

Chester's Mill	Stephen King	Under the Dome

Chipping Cleghorn	Agatha Christie	Miss Marple series

Cittàgazze	Philip Pullman	His Dark Materials series

Clanton, Mississippi	John Grisham	A Time to Kill	Several of Grisham's other novels also take place, in whole or in part, in Clanton.

Cleopolis	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene

Eastwick	Julian Barnes	Metroland

Emerald City	L. Frank Baum	Various Oz Books

Esgaroth	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Hobbit

Gao Village	Wu Cheng'en	Journey to the West

Gormenghast	Mervyn Peake	Gormenghast series

Glimmerdagg, Sweden	Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson	Sune

Godric's Hollow	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter series

Haliford	J. B. Priestley	They Walk in the City	A Yorkshire industrial town suffering the economic crisis of the 1930s, similar to real towns well known to writer from his own childhood

Harfang	C. S. Lewis	The Silver Chair

Hierusalem	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene

Hogsmeade	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter series

Ilium	Kurt Vonnegut	various works	Considered a stand-in for the actual cities of Schenectady and Troy, New York. Featured or referenced in Vonnegut's novels Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Player Piano, and Galápagos.

Isola	Evan Hunter	87th Precinct	a section of a fictional city that is the setting for the 87th Precinct series of police procedural novels written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter).

Kanthapura	Raja Rao	Kanthapura

Kingsport	Winifred Holtby	South Riding	a major English seaport town fictional city setting in the classic novel, analogous to the location of Kingston-upon-Hull

Lankhmar	Fritz Leiber	Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series

Lake Wobegon	Garrison Keillor	various works

Llareggub	Dylan Thomas	Under Milk Wood	"bugger all" spelled backwards

Lud	Stephen King	Dark Tower series

Lutenblag	Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch	Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry	Capital of the eponymous nation.

Macondo	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	First mentioned in Garcia Maquez's La Hojarasca

Malgudi	R.K. Narayan	Malgudi Days	Malgudi is a fictitious town in India created by R.K. Narayan in his novels and short stories.

Marghdeen (Marghadin)	Allama Muhammad Iqbal	Javid Nama	Mentioned in Allama Iqbal's epic poem Javid Nama, the city of Marghdeen is depicted as a welfare state based on divine principles for humanity.

Mariposa	Stephen Leacock	Various short stories

Minas Tirith	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings

New Crobuzon	China Miéville	various works

Newford	Charles de Lint	various works

New Venice	Jean-Christophe Valtat	The Mysteries of New Venice	a fictional city, made of buildings from past world's fairs, and located near the North Pole, on Ellesmere Island.

Opar	Edgar Rice Burroughs	various Tarzan novels	a fictional lost city in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels.

Öreskoga, Sweden	Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson	Bert

Ploverleigh	W. S. Gilbert	The Sorcerer

Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England	Hugh Lofting	Doctor Dolittle

Rederring	W. S. Gilbert	Ruddigore	a fictional town in Cornwall, location of Ruddigore Castle.

R'lyeh	H. P. Lovecraft	The Call of Cthulhu	fictional lost city that first appeared in the H. P.

Sac Prairie	August Derleth	varius works

Santa Teresa	Ross Macdonald	The Moving Target	a fictionalized version of Santa Barbara, California, created by Ross Macdonald in his mystery The Moving Target (1949).

St. Mary Mead	Agatha Christie	Miss Marple series	An earlier mention of St. Mary Mead exists in the Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train.

Starvation Lake	Bryan Gruley	Starvation Lake	Starvation Lake is a small town in the fake Pine County, Michigan. The town is based on real-life Bellaire, Michigan.

Sto Lat	Sir Terry Pratchett	Discworld

Thneedville	Dr. Seuss	The Lorax	A walled city without trees. This was also seen in the 2012 computer-animated film adaptation.

Trantor	Isaac Asimov	Foundation series	capital of the Galactic Empire, at its height the city of Trantor covers the entire surface of its planet.

Utopia	Thomas More	Utopia (book) the 1516 book	The book coined the term "Utopia", meaning an ideal city or civilization

Warlock	Oakley Hall	Warlock (1958 novel)

Wilvercombe, England	Dorothy L. Sayers	Have His Carcase	A small resort on the South West coast of England, where the murder in the novel takes place.

Yian	Robert W. Chambers	The Maker of Moons	a fictional city created by Robert W. Chambers and also referred to by H.

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Newford is a fictional town, in various works of Charles de Lint.

final_sentence: Newford is a fictional town, in various works of Charles de Lint.