Travel

Travel is the movement of people or objects (such as airplanes, boats, trains and other conveyances) between relatively distant geographical locations. The term "travel" originates from the Old French word travail. Travel writing is a genre that has, as its focus, accounts of real or imaginary places. The genre encompasses a number of styles that may range from the documentary to the evocative, from literary to journalistic, and from the humorous to the serious. Travel writing is often associated with tourism, and includes works of an ephemeral nature such as guide books and reviews, with the ...more

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The League of Dangerous Young Ladies (Deluxe Edition)
The Valencia Expat Club
Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
Shortbread in the Highlands (Suitcase Sisters, #3)
The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
ALTARS OF THE DELUGE: Pyramids, Megaliths, Cave Art, the Submerged Prehistory of Java, Sumba, Sulawesi, and Sundaland, Temples, Rituals, and a Journey Through the Last Living Megalithic Enigmas
25 Days in Athens
The Gulf of Lions
Oh My Affogato! (Vacationship)
The Lesbian Bar Chronicles: The Living History and Hopeful Future of America's Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces
  • Tokyo Daze by Mark  Coughlin
    Tokyo Daze: A Gaijin's Drift Through Bubble-Era Tokyo
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    Release date: May 24, 2026
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    Giveaway dates: Jun 22 - Jul 22, 2026

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  • Italian Home Cooking by Editors of Slow Food Europe
    Italian Home Cooking: Authentic Dishes from All of Italy's Regions

    Release date: Sep 15, 2026
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  • Responsible RVing by Dave Letterfly Knoderer
    Responsible RVing: How The Ultimate RV Changed My Life (Successful Adventuring Guides)

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  • People We Meet on Vacation
    The Road to Tender Hearts
    Our Secret Summer
    A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    One Italian Summer
    Villa Coco
    Road Trip
    Happier Here With You
    Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
    Wish You Were Here
    You Are Here
    The Paris Match
    Vacation Wars
    West with Giraffes
    Murder Takes a Vacation
    The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
    A Journey Through Literary America
    170 books — 237 voters
    The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
    Wanderlust
    1,100 books — 1,229 voters

    Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
    Fictitious Africa
    562 books — 284 voters
    Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonPaper Towns by John  GreenAn Abundance of Katherines by John  Green13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen JohnsonTwo-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
    Young Adult Road Trip Novels
    370 books — 1,964 voters


    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
    Notes from a Small Island
    Eat, Pray, Love
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    Into the Wild
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
    The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

    Anna Quindlen
    “ In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. ”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

    David  Mitchell
    “ Travel far enough, you meet yourself. ”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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