Top Ten Tuesday: books that take me Elsewhere

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."

–Mason Cooley

Happy Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is a linkup hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, and this week's topic is supposed to be "Books with Sensory Reading Memories." But . . . well, I changed it. For two reasons: 1) Almost every book I read is read on my couch or my bed or my living room floor with no more exciting beverage than a glass of water (sometimes it has lemon in it!!), and 2) I picture everything I read; it goes on in my head like a movie. Therefore, I'm usually mentally sucked into the world in the book and have no brain cells left for making sensory reading memories.

So today, my topic is books that take me Elsewhere.

#1. The Girl from Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig, took me to 1800s Hawaii.

#2. Heartless, by Marissa Meyer, took me to pre-Alice Wonderland.

#3. The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke, took me to the back alleys of Venice.

#4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling, took me to Hogwarts.

#5. Strange the Dreamer, by Laini Taylor, took me to Weep.

#6. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, took me to Middle Earth.

#7. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis, took me to Narnia.

#8. Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, took me to a country estate in Regency England.

#9. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, took me to a dystopian society that was actually disturbingly appealing to me.

#10. The Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton Porter, took me to Indiana.

Have you read any of these? What books have taken you Elsewhere??