A Travel Inspired Reading List
Although we love the saying "Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport," there is certainly a lot of inspiration to be found in travel-related fiction and non-fiction. A librarian friend (and study abroad alum!) shared this reading list, shown below or available for download, which we hope helps YOU get inspired to find your adventure abroad!
Travel – Nonfiction
- A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
- Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World by Holly Morris
- All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
- Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities and the Pleasures of Solitude by Lauren Dane
- An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
- Around the World in 50 Years by Albert Podell
- Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer
- Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- From Heaven Lake – Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth
- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
- Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
- Lost on Planet China by Maarten Troost
- Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche
- Mud, Sweat and Gears: Cycling from Lands’ End to John O’Groats (Via the pub) by Ellie Bennett
- My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
- My Paris Dream by Kate Betts
- Nothing to Declare by Mary Morris
- Squirrel Pie and Other Stories by Elizabeth Luard
- Tales of a Female Nomad Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
- The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy
- The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World by Jennifer Baggett
- Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
- What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
- Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach
Travel – Fiction
- Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
- Fire Summer by Thuyda Lam
- French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
- Holiday in Cambodia by Laura Jean McKay
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Little Paris Book Shop by Nina George
- One Summer Day in Rome by Mark Lamprell
- Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser
- Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
- The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Ruins by Scott Smith
- The Summer Retreat by Sheila Roberts
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
- Trains and Lovers by Alexander McCall Smith