List of fictional towns in literature

This is a list of fictional towns in literature.

Town name	Author	Origin	Notes
Adenville, Utah	John D. Fitzgerald	The Great Brain and other books in the Great Brain series	Adenville is a small town in Utah, around AD 1900.
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. 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	The principle setting for most of the novels of the series, it is viewed as being the foremost city on the Disc.
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, England	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, England	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, England	Agatha Christie	Miss Marple series
Christminster, England	Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure
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
Edgestow, England	C. S. Lewis	That Hideous Strength
Emerald City	L. Frank Baum	Various Oz Books	The Emerald City is the capital of the Land of Oz, the Emerald City. It is entirely (in the first books) or mostly (in later books) green. The city is made of green glass, emeralds, and other jewels.
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, England	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
Henrietta, Virginia	Maggie Stiefvater	The Raven Cycle 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
Kingsport, England	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
Lilliput	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels
Llareggub, Wales	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 fictional town in India created by R.K. Narayan in his novels and short stories. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works.
Jahilia	Salman Rushdie	The Satanic Verses
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
Midland City, Ohio	Kurt Vonnegut	Deadeye Dick, Breakfast of Champions	Midland City is a generic Midwestern town modeled off the author's hometown.
Mill River, California	Robert B. Parker	A Catskill Eagle
Minas Tirith	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings
Mullet Jump	Terry W. Platt	Digital Alabama	Fictitious county seat for fictitious Slokey County Alabama. Sheriff and other government agencies here.
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.
Northtown, North Washington	TBA	Dead or Alive: Northtown series	a fictional mysterious, sleepy, small town in the fictional county of Rose County in the fictional state of North Washtington. It is the main setting of the novel series.
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
Poltowan, England	Nicola K. Smith	A Degree of Uncertainty
Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England	Hugh Lofting	Doctor Dolittle
Rederring	W. S. Gilbert	Ruddigore	a fictional town in Cornwall, location of Ruddigore Castle.
River Heights	Carolyn Keene	Nancy Drew
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)
Rummidge, England	David Lodge	Changing Places and others
Sac Prairie	August Derleth	various works
San Juan Romero, Mexico	Rita Maria Felix da Silva	San Juan Romero	Located somewhere in Mexico, this city that also gives the title the first short story in the series of stories starring "Sir James Winterwood". It is notorious for a terrible curse that plagues this small Mexican town.
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]
Slokey County Alabama	T.O. Crane	The Raven	a fictional county in Alabama, used to conceal true crime locations.
St. Mary Mead, England	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.
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.[2] The lake the book is named after is in nearby Kalkaska County, and mentions its location in Northern 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.
Two Mills	Jerry Spinelli	Maniac Magee	Magee runs around and lives in a couple parts of this racially divided town.
Utopia	Thomas More	Utopia (book) the 1516 book	The book coined the term "Utopia", meaning an ideal city or civilization
Vermilion Sands	J.G. Ballard	Vermilion Sands collection	A beach resort with futuristic art.
Village of Fowl Devotees	Lemony Snicket	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Has many (and often ridiculous) rules, with a penalty of being burned at stake for breaking these rules, the most important of which is no harming crows.
Viriconium	M. John Harrison	The Pastel City (1971)	Viriconium is a city/state which exists in the far future.
Watermouth, England	Malcolm Bradbury	The History Man
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.
Wrottesley, England	Howard Jacobson	Coming from Behind	"somewhere in the debased and deteriorating Midlands"[3]
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."

References

1. Priestman, Martin (2003). The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521008716.
2. Giest, Mary Ellen (October 24, 2011). "Bryan Gruley's Northern Michigan: {...} Gruley sets his dark novels in a fictional Northern Michigan town called Starvation Lake". Traverse City, Michigan: MyNorth Media (mynorth.com). Retrieved 2013-11-10.
3. Bradbury, Malcolm (1990). "Campus Fictions". In Bevan, David (ed.). University Fiction. Rodopi. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-90-5183-234-1. Retrieved 7 August 2020.