![]() ![]() I’m continually adding more to the list as I go. ![]() While many of these are the books you always see on the top 10 travel books list, there are some obscure titles that I found on random bookshelves that still haven’t made their way to Kindle format. If you like what an author writes you can research their back-catalogue for more reading. In the interest of diversity I have selected only one book per author, otherwise I would have (happily) listed Bill Bryson seven times. This might change out of necessity if the list continues to grow. The list is ordered alphabetically (how do you even rank something so subjective?) and not sorted into sub-categories. This list is derived from a combination of books I’ve read, an aggregation of prominent top travel book lists (listed below), books that have been recommended to me, and books that are considered classics of the genre yet that have been overlooked by modern lists. For example City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas can be found in the Venice travel guide, and Vietnam: A History can be found in the Vietnam travel guide. I was listing history books but I have now moved those into the travel guides section. If you are interested in books about place I recommend looking through A year of reading the world, which lists one book for every nation in the world. Some book lists also include books set in places from the perspective of a writer who lives there. I was keeping travel fiction on this list but I have since removed them and I will make a new list for best travel fiction.Īlso not included on the list are travel guide books or history books about cities and countries that aren’t personal narratives. Travel Book Definitionįor the purpose of this list I have defined travel books as personal narratives and historic travel journals. I have listed my selection methods below. What denotes a best or top travel book is a subjective process (unless you are measuring purely on known sales), so this list has been through an editorial process. If you are looking for a great travel read I have compiled a list of the worlds top 200 travel books.
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