Authors including Pico Iyer, Julia Phillips, and Imbolo Mbue et al gathered their favorite travel reads that will inspire, inform, and explore. Books included on this list—some old, some new—may have changed the way cultures, places, or people were considered in the past and may be considered in the future.
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
History
Herodotus
4.22
17 reads
India: A Wounded Civilization
V.S. Naipaul
3
2 reads
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
Blair Braverman
3.67
6 reads
A View of the World: Selected Writings
Norman Lewis
0
0 reads
Two Towns in Provence
M.F.K. Fisher
0
0 reads
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
John Mandeville
C.W.R.D. Moseley (Translator)
4
1 read
Tokyo Fiancée
Amélie Nothomb
Alison Anderson (Translator)
0
0 reads
To a Distant Island
James McConkey
0
0 reads
This Is Happiness
Niall Williams
4.2
5 reads
Slowly Down the Ganges
Eric Newby
Wanda Newby
2
1 read
Skating to Antarctica
Jenny Diski
0
0 reads
Siren land
Norman Douglas
0
0 reads
Shah of Shahs
Ryszard Kapuściński
William R. Brand (Translator)
Ljubica Rosić (Translator)
Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand (Translator)
4
4 reads
Sea and Sardinia
D.H. Lawrence
0
0 reads
Sandstorms
Peter Theroux
0
0 reads
The Road to Oxiana
Robert Byron
0
0 reads
The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald
Michael Hulse (Translator)
4.5
13 reads
The Pine Barrens
John McPhee
0
0 reads
The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia
P.F. Kluge
Fred Kluge
0
0 reads
Old Glory
Jonathan Raban
0
0 reads
No Mercy
Redmond O'Hanlon
5
1 read
The Nomad
Isabelle Eberhardt
0
0 reads
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches