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The most-recommended travel titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014
15 recommenders
Einstein’s Dreams
Alan Lightman · 2004
8 recommenders
Less
Andrew Sean Greer · 2017
6 recommenders
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Will Guidara · 2022
Rocket Men
Robert Kurson · 2018
5 recommenders
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor · 2005
Born to Run
Christopher McDougall · 2009
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells · 2002
The Shepherd's Life
James Rebanks · 2015
4 recommenders
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad · 1899
The Road to Oxiana
Robert Byron · 1937
The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
Michael S. Malone · 1985
All Systems Red
Martha Wells · 2017
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar · 2019
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 2006
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers · 2014
3 recommenders
Aurora
Kim Stanley Robinson · 2015
Chinese Shadows
Simon Leys · 1977
Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith · 1950
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon · 1991
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez · 2001
Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin · 2006
City of Djinns
William Dalrymple · 2003
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens · 2000
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad · 2023
The Comfort Crisis
Michael Easter · 2021
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne · 2006
Full Tilt
Dervla Murphy · 1987
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · 2017
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh · 2008
River Town
Peter Hessler · 2006
Night Watch
Terry Pratchett · 2011
Contact
Carl Sagan · 2016
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie · 2013
The Electric State
Simon Stålenhag · 2017
2 recommenders
The Science of Interstellar
Kip Thorne · 2014
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age
William Manchester · 1993
Empires of the Indus: The Story of A River
Alice Albinia · 2008
The Kon-Tiki Expedition
Thor Heyerdahl · 1990
Lenin On The Train
Catherine Merridale · 2016
The Sign and the Seal
Graham Hancock · 1992
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis · 1998
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Daniel Mendelsohn · 2017
The Ministry of Time: A Novel
Kaliane Bradley · 2024
Blue Highways
William Least Heat-Moon · 1999
Azerbaijan Diary
Thomas Goltz · 1998
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson · 2006
Super Cheap New Zealand: The Ultimate Travel Guide for Budget Travelers, Backpackers, Campers, Students and Families (Japan Travel Guides by Matthew Baxter)
Matthew Baxter · 2019
Charlotte Sometimes
& Two by Penelope Farmer · 2017
Long Division
Kiese Laymon · 2013
A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Geek In...guides)
Hector Garcia · 2011
The Moon: A History for the Future
Oliver Morton · 2019
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Charles King · 2020
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis · 1992
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
James Poskett · 2022
Notes on the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson · 1784
Junkyard Planet
Adam Minter · 2013
Molotov’s Magic Lantern
Rachel Polonsky · 2010
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mehta · 2005
Portrait with Keys
Ivan Vladislavic · 2006
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West · 2007
Confederates in the Attic
Tony Horwitz · 1999
The Geography of Madness
Frank Bures · 2016
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke · 2000
My Fourth Time, We Drowned
Sally Hayden · 2022
The Black Cauldron
Lloyd Alexander · 2006
The Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson · 2020
The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton · 2004
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
Graham Robb · 2007
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North · 2014
A Traveller in Time
Alison Uttley · 1997
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Eric Newby · 1999
The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
Joe McGinniss · 2000
The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo · 2008
Southern California
Carey McWilliams · 1980
The Dud Avocado
Elaine Dundy · 1958
Travels with a Tangerine
Tim Mackintosh-Smith · 2002
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Rolf Potts · 2002
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger · 1959
The Geography of Genius
Eric Weiner · 2016
The Natural History of Selborne
Gilbert White · 1789
Natural Born Heroes
Christopher McDougall · 2015
Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Mary Wollstonecraft · 1796
News of the World
Paulette Jiles · 2016
Children of Ash and Elm
Neil S. Price · 2020
The Vanished Birds
Simon Jimenez · 2020
The Way of the World
Nicolas Bouvier · 1992
This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub · 2022
Arctica: The Vanishing North
Sebastian Copeland · 2015
The Collapsing Empire
John Scalzi · 2017
In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson · 2001
Between East And West
Anne Applebaum · 1994
1 recommender
Bonjour Blanc
Ian Thomson · 1992
Book of Travels (Safarnāma)
Nasir-i Khusraw
On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar
Clare Hammond · 2024
Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse · 2020
The Black Ridge
Simon Ingram · 2020
Time Travel Inn (Choose Your Own Adventure)
Bart King · 2021
Robbery Under Law
Evelyn Waugh · 1939
Alexandria
Michael Haag · 1993
