Terra Lecta

A world map of the classics you have read.

Mark the classics you have read and see them on a world map: where each is set, where its author lived, where it was written.

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Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, leans on his staff over his dying dog Argos. Engraving after John Flaxman. — Ithaca. Homer, Odyssey, c. 725 BCIthaca. Homer, Odyssey, c. 725 BC

Charon rows his boat across the river Acheron under black cliffs. Engraving by Gustave Doré. — The Acheron. Dante, Inferno, AD 1320The Acheron. Dante, Inferno, AD 1320

Mark the classics you have read and see them on a world map: where each is set, where its author lived, where it was written.

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Where the classics happen

335 classics tied to 794 real and imagined places. Click a marker to see the books set there; move through time to watch the map fill in, from Homer to the present.

Every era

263 classics

SettingAuthorWritten in

Abraham Ortelius's world map from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1572.

Set somewhere real

London, 1935Walter Mittelholzer, Public domain

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley, AD 1932

Dublin, 1900John L. Stoddard, Public domain

Ulysses

James Joyce, AD 1922

ParisYann Caradec from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov, AD 1955

New York CityFred Hsu on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

On the Road

Jack Kerouac, AD 1957

California, 1937Dorothea Lange, Public domain

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck, AD 1939

Cairo, Illinois, 1857Lewis, Henry, 1819-1904. cn, No restrictions

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, AD 1884

Aldous Huxley. Portrait: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain

The classics

Picked from the great reading lists, from Bokklubben’s World Library and Britannica’s Great Books to the BBC’s Big Read. More are added over time.

Brave New WorldAldous Huxley, AD 1932AD 1932
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931, and published in 1932.
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell, AD 1949AD 1949
UlyssesJames Joyce, AD 1922AD 1922
Catch-22Joseph Heller, AD 1961AD 1961
LolitaVladimir Nabokov, AD 1955AD 1955
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot, AD 1871AD 1871
On the RoadJack Kerouac, AD 1957AD 1957
The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger, AD 1951AD 1951

Browse all the classics

Don Quixote lies thrown beneath the windmills while Sancho Panza rides up on his donkey. Etching by Adolphe Lalauze.

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Pick up a classic: Cervantes' La Mancha, Tolstoy's Moscow, Joyce's Dublin. The classics here are picked by hand, and more are added over time.

A sprig of olive, Olea europaea, with leaves and small flowers. Hand-coloured plate drawn by William Miller, 1820.

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Mark it as read, with the date and a rating if you like, or import your Goodreads or StoryGraph shelves in one go.

The eastern portico of the Parthenon above the houses of Athens. Engraving by Stuart and Revett, 1794.

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Your map fills in: the settings, the towns where the authors were born and lived, and the rooms where they wrote.

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