"Imaginary places" is actually an official term library catalogs use to describe books in which the Imaginary Place is central.  Click the link below to browse related subjects.

• Imaginary Places

You can even look up the name of some specific author-created imaginary places:

• Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary Place)
• Oz (Imaginary Place)
• Middle Earth (Imaginary Place)

Some other places are easier to find in a keyword search:

• Suggestions for keyword searches

Believe it or not, books are also classified with these terms:

• Extinct Cities
• Geographical Myths
• Lost Continents

Myth and folklore might also give you some ideas:

• Creation -- Comparative Studies
• Folklore -- Encyclopedias
• Folklore
• Superstition

Chronologies may be another source to stimulate your thinking:

• United States -- History -- Chronology

Language

• Dictionary of American Regional English
• Language in the USA

To find books and other materials on past authors who have created imagined worlds or explored actual places in their poetry and fiction, try these keyword searches in the Classic Catalog:

Actual Places or based upon them

• Butler Erewhon
• Coleridge “Kubla Khan”
• Faulkner Yoknapatawpha
• Joyce Ulysses
• Masters "Spoon River Anthology"
• Olson Maximus
• Pound Cantos
• "William Carlos Williams" Paterson

Imaginary Places

• Bunyan “Pilgrim’s Progress”
• Calvino “Invisible Cities” 
• Dante “Divine Comedy”
• Milton “Paradise Lost”
• More Utopia