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.
 Herodotus
| 4.15 |
 India: A Wounded Civilization
| 3.33 |
 Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
| 3.67 |
 A View of the World: Selected Writings
| 0 |
 Two Towns in Provence
| 0 |
 The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
| 4 |
 Tokyo Fiancée
| 0 |
 To a Distant Island
| 0 |
 This Is Happiness
| 4.17 |
 Slowly Down the Ganges
| 2 |
 Skating to Antarctica
| 0 |
 Siren land
| 0 |
 Shah of Shahs
| 4 |
 Sea and Sardinia
| 0 |
 Sandstorms
| 0 |
 The Road to Oxiana
| 0 |
 The Rings of Saturn
| 4.38 |
 The Pine Barrens
| 4 |
 The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia
| 0 |
 Old Glory
| 0 |
 No Mercy
| 5 |
 The Nomad
| 0 |
 The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
| 4.17 |
 The Muses Are Heard
| 0 |
 Memorial
| 3.41 |
 The Lycian Shore
| 0 |
 London Perceived
| 0 |
 Letters from Egypt
| 0 |
 Journey to Portugal
| 0 |
 I See By My Outfit
| 0 |
 Iron & Silk
| 0 |
 In the Country of Country
| 0 |
 In Patagonia
| 3.5 |
 The impossible country
| 3.5 |
 Honouring High Places
| 5 |
 GreatPlains
| 3.5 |
 From a Chinese City From a Chinese City
| 0 |
 The Fearful Void
| 0 |
 Farthest North Volume I Farthest North Volume I
| 0 |
 Eothen
| 2 |
 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
| 4.54 |
 The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat
| 0 |
 Dark Star Safari
| 4.29 |
 Cross Country
| 0 |
 Blue highways
| 4 |
 An Area of Darkness
| 5 |
 Arabian Sands
| 4 |
 Among the Cities
| 0 |
 Along the Ganges
| 0 |
 Wrong About Japan
| 2 |
 The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913
| 3.17 |
 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
| 3.79 |
 Where'd You Go, Bernadette
| 3.8 |
 West with the Night
| 4.18 |
 Travels with Myself and Another
| 0 |
 Travels with a donkey
| 0 |
 A Time of Gifts
| 4.5 |
 The songlines
| 3.88 |
 Lonely Planet
| 3.75 |
 Round Ireland with a Fridge
| 3.94 |
 The Round House
| 4.16 |
 Rome and a Villa
| 0 |
 The Places In Between
| 4.08 |
 The People in the Trees
| 3.5 |
 Notes from The Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia
| 0 |
 News from Tartary
| 5 |
 My First Summer in the Sierra
| 4.29 |
 Me Talk Pretty One Day
| 4.03 |
 Maximum City
| 4 |
 A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
| 4.26 |
 The Innocents Abroad
| 3.73 |
 In A Sunburned Country
| 4.04 |
 Heidi
| 4.17 |
 The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
| 3.7 |
 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
| 3.97 |
 Exterminate All The Brutes
| 0 |
 Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
| 3.32 |
 Down the Nile
| 0 |
 Down and Out in Paris and London
| 3.97 |
 Democracy in America
| 3 |
 Corregidora
| 3.6 |
 Chasing the Sea
| 0 |
 Chasing the Monsoon
| 0 |
 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
| 0 |
 A Barbarian in Asia
| 0 |
 As They Were
| 4 |
 Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
| 4.21 |
