List of fictional towns in literature

This is a List of fictional towns in literature.

Town name	Author	Origin	Notes
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. the Dead Continent), what was left of the continent of North America after the Sixty Minute War. When Anchorage was a Traction City, it was not predatory but gained its wealth by trading with other cities, due to more scrupulous leaders.
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. Aramanth later becomes part of the Sovereignty of Gang under Bowman and Sisi's leadership.
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
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
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
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
Lankhmar	Fritz Leiber	Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series
Lake Wobegon	Garrison Keillor	various works
Lud	Stephen King	Dark Tower series
Macondo	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	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. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works.
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. It depicts the purist and the noblest level of any human society, one can imagine. The city of absolute peace in Javid Nama.
Mariposa	Stephen Leacock	Various short stories
Minas Tirith	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings
New Carthage	B. Gian James	The Emergent Discord series
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
Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England	Hugh Lofting	Doctor Dolittle
R'lyeh	H. P. Lovecraft	The Call of Cthulhu	fictional lost city that first appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu, first published in Weird Tales in 1928. According to Lovecraft's short story, R'lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the malevolent entity called Cthulhu. The nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh…was built in measureless eons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars. There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults. H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
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).[1]
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. However, that St. Mary Mead is said to be in Kent, while the St. Mary Mead mentioned in the Miss Marple stories, beginning with Murder at the Vicarage, is located in either the fictional county of Downshire, Radfordshire, or Middleshire, depending on the source used.
Sto Lat	Sir Terry Pratchett	Discworld
Trantor	Isaac Asimov	Foundation series	capital of the Galactic Empire, at its height the city of Trantor covers the entire surface of its planet.
Warlock	Oakley Hall	Warlock (1958 novel)
Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	When Alice saw a talking and clothed White Rabbit, she started following it and reached a magical land filled with wonderful anthropomorphic creatures, magical potions, and cakes. Where she encountered Cheshire Cat, Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar, dodo, Bill the Lizard and so on.
Yian	Robert W. Chambers	The Maker of Moons	a fictional city created by Robert W. Chambers and also referred to by H. P. Lovecraft. In the city, a great river flows under a thousand bridges, it is always summer and the sound of silver bells fills the air. In a portion of The Maker of Moons it is said to lie "across seven oceans and the river which is longer than from the Earth to the Moon."

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References

1. Priestman, Martin (2003). The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Cambridge University Press.