Travel Reads Book Club

Got wanderlust? Join us for a discussion of a travel-related title every month. We meet the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 5:30pm at the Paseo Verde Library. The meeting is also available via Zoom.

For questions, contact Shannon at slight@hendersonlibraries.com.

Upcoming Selections

July

July 15
5:30pm

This month we will be discussing The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers.

August

August 19
5:30pm

This month we will be discussing My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.

September

September 16
5:30pm

This month we will be discussing Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.

October

October 21
5:30pm

This month we will be discussing Ghostland by Edward Parnell.

November

November 18
5:30pm

This month we will be discussing The Nile by Toby Wilkinson.

december

Not meeting this month

Previous Selections

2025

A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain (January 21, 2025)
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (February 18, 2025)
To the River by Olivia Laing (March 18, 2025)
No Place Like Home by Gary Younge (April 17, 2025)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (May 20, 2025)
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (June 17, 2025)

2024

Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman (January 16, 2024)
No Horizon is So Far by Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (February 20, 2024)
Mediterranean Winter by Robert D. Kaplan (March 19, 2024)
The Last Overland by Alex Bescoby (April 16, 2024)
Maphead by Ken Jennings (May 28, 2024)
French Dive by Eric Freeze (June 18, 2024)
Bold Spirit by Linda Lawrence Hunt (July 16, 2024)
August meeting was cancelled
Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart (September 17, 2024)
Adventures of a Continental Drifter by Elliott Hester (October 15, 2024)
Crossed Off the Map by Shafik Meghji (November 19, 2024)
My California, edited by Donna Wares (December 17, 2024)

2023

Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain (January 17, 2023)
A Woman's World Again, edited by Marybeth Bond (February 21, 2023)
Zaatar Days, Henna Nights by Maliha Masood (March 21, 2023)
Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti (April 18, 2023)
Land of a Thousand Hills by Rosamond Halsey Carr (May 16, 2023)
The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck (June 20, 2023)
The Kindness of Strangers, edited by Fearghal O'Nuallain (July 18, 2023)
Travels with George by Nathaniel Philbrick (August 15, 2023)
Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn (September 19, 2023)
The Buddha and the Bee by Cory Mortensen (October 17, 2023)
Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks (November 21, 2023)
Wild Nevada, edited by Roberta Moore and Scott Slovic (December 19, 2023)

2022

River Town by Peter Hesser (January 18, 2022)
The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy (February 15, 2022)
Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche (March 15, 2022)
Falling Off the Map by Pico Iyer (April 19, 2022)
Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom (May 18, 2022)
Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris (June 21, 2022)
The Best American Travel Writing of 2021, edited by Padma Lakshmi (July 19, 2022)
Braver Than You Think by Maggie Downs (August 16, 2022)
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo (September 20, 2022)
Letter to a Stranger, edited by Colleen Kinder (October 18, 2022)
The Crossway by Guy Stagg (November 15, 2022)
Nala's World by Dean Nicholson (December 20, 2022)

2021

Roam Alone by Hilary Brandt (January 19, 2021)
Wild About Britain by Brian Jackman (February 16, 2021)
The Wild Muir by John Muir (March 16, 2021)
In Search of King Solomon's Mines by Tahir Shah (April 20, 2021)
At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider (May 18, 2021)
Alone Across the Arctic by Pam Flowers (June 15, 2021)
How to Travel the World for Free by Michael Wigge (July 20, 2021)
To Timbuktu for a Haircut by Rick Antonson (August 17, 2021)
The Dog Went Over the Mountain by Peter Zheutlin (September 21, 2021)
Street Without a Name by Kaphka Kassabova (October 19, 2021)
Ottoman Odyssey by Alev Scott (November 16, 2021)
Footsteps: Literary Pilgrimages Around the World by Various Authors (December 21, 2021)

2020

Pilgrim Wheels by Neil Hanson (January 15, 2020)
Our Towns by James and Deborah Fallows (February 19, 2020)
Did not meet in March, April, or May 2020
Chasing Churchill by Celia Sandys (June 24, 2020)
The Not-Quite States of America by Doug Mack (July 15, 2020)
The Yellow Envelope by Kim Dinan (August 18, 2020)
A Tourist in the Arab Spring by Tom Chesshyre (September 15, 2020)
Growing Old Outrageously by Hilary Linstead and Elisabeth Davies (October 20, 2020)
Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell (November 17, 2020)
Travel Tales of a Feisty Fifty-Something by Joanne Nussbaum (December 15, 2020)

2019

The Black Penguin by Andrew Evans (January 16, 2019)
Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery (February 20, 2019)
The Summer of My Greek Taverna by Tom Stone (March 20, 2019)
Marco Polo Didn't Go There by Rolf Potts (April 17, 2019)
Hitching Rides with Buddha by Will Ferguso (May 15, 2019)
Trespassing Across America by Ken Ilgunas (June 19, 2019)
Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman (July 17, 2019)
Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming (August 21, 2019)
Couchsurfing in Iran by Stephan Orth (September 18, 2019)
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell (October 16, 2019)
The Joys of Travel by Thomas Swick (November 20, 2019)
Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks (December 18, 2019)

2018

Sojourns of the Soul: One Woman's Journey Around the World and into Her Truth by Dana Micucci (January 17, 2018)
The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America by Mike McIntyre (February 21, 2018)
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts (March 21, 2018)
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This" by P. J. O'Rourke (April 18, 2018)
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians by Philip Marsden (May 16, 2018)
Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away by Bob Shacochis (June 20, 2018)
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford (July 18, 2018)
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley (August 15, 2018)
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan (September 19, 2018)
Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco by Erin Byrne (October 17, 2018)
Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home by Malachy Tallack (November 28, 2018)
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (December 19, 2018)

2017

Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson (January 18, 2017)
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant (February 15, 2017)
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino (March 15, 2017)
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (April 19, 2017)
Narrow Dog to Indian River by Terry Darlington (May 17, 2017)
Walking the Kiso Road: A Modern-Day Exploration of Old Japan by William Scott Wilson (June 21, 2017)
Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah by Anna Badkhen (July 19, 2017)
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward Larson (August 16, 2017)
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet Travel Literature (September 20, 2017)
So Many Enemies, So Little Time: an American Woman in All the Wrong Places by Elinor Burkett (October 18, 2017)
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik (November 15, 2017)
The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George by Don George (December 20, 2017)

2016

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown (January 20, 2016)
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff (February 17, 2016)
The Great Railway Bazaar by David Grann (March 16, 2016)
The Lost City of Z by David Grann (April 20, 2016)
Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams (May 18, 2016)
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (June 15, 2016)
Last of the Donkey Pilgrims by Kevin O'Hara (July 20, 2016)
Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli (August 17, 2016)
On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu (September 21, 2016)
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (October 19, 2016)
Imagined London by Anna Quindlen (November 16, 2016)
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Fermor (December 21, 2016)

2015

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (January 28, 2015)
West with the Night by Beryl Markham (February 25, 2015)
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler (March 25, 2015)
The Longest Road by Philip Caputo (April 22, 2015)
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks (May 20, 2015)
Following the Equator by Mark Twain (June 17, 2015)
Silverland by Dervla Murphy (July 15, 2015)
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (August 19, 2015)
The End of Night by Paul Bogard (September 16, 2015)
The Impossible Country by Brian Hall (October 21, 2015)
Caravans by James Michener (November 18, 2015)
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron (December 16, 2015)

2014

The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers (January 22, 2014)
In Caliph's House by Tahir Shah (February 26, 2014)
The American Home Front, 1941-1942 by Alistair Cooke (March 26, 2014)
The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho (April 23, 2014)
Great Plains by Ian Frazier (May 28, 2014)
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople by Patrick Fermor (June 25, 2014)
Among the Islands by Tim Flannery (July 23, 2014)
Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner (August 27, 2014)
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo by Redmond O'Hanlon (September 24, 2014)
Salaam Brick Lane by Tarquin Hall (October 22, 2014)
Motoring with Mohammed by Eric Hansen (November 25, 2014)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (December 23, 2014)

2013

The 8:55 to Baghdad: from London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie by Andrew Eames (January 23, 2013)
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas by Matthew O'Brien (February 27, 2013)
Frost on my Moustache: the Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer by Tim Moore (March 27, 2013)
Jupiter's Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph by Ted Simon (April 24, 2013)
My Mercedes is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara by Jeroen van Bergeijk (May 22, 2013)
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban (June 26, 2013)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby (July 24, 2013)
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin (August 28, 2013)
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge by John Gimlette (September 25, 2013)
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (October 23, 2013)
The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior by Tepilit Ole Saitoti (November 27, 2013)
Along the Ganges by Ilija Trojanow (December 18, 2013)

2012

Blue Highways: a Journey Into America by William Least Heat Moon (January 25, 2012)
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (February 22, 2012)
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (March 28, 2012)
Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood At the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namy (April 25, 2012)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (May 23, 2012)
Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill (June 27, 2012)
Roughing It by Mark Twain (July 25, 2012)
Stranger In the Forest by Eric Hansen (August 22, 2012)
The Long Walk: the True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz (September 26, 2012)
The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal (October 24, 2012)
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth (November 28, 2012)
Travels With Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn (December 19, 2012)

2011

The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle (January 26, 2011)
A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen by Freya Stark (February 23, 2011)
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey (March 23, 2011)
A Sky So Close (April 27, 2011)
Gone to New York: Adventures in the City by Ian Frazier (May 25, 2011)
In Siberia (June 22, 2011)
Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd (July 27, 2011)
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney (August 24, 3011)
Baghdad Without a Map, and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall (October 26, 2011)
Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian (November 23, 2011)
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa (December 28, 2011)

2010

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (January 27, 2010)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (February 24, 2010)
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (March 24, 2010)
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (April 28, 2010)
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje (May 26, 2010)
The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher (June 23, 2010)
Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach (July 28, 2010)
Mardi Gras In The Moment by Jason Bentsman (August 25, 2010)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (September 29, 2010)
Coming Into the Country by John McPhee (October 27, 2010)
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (November 24, 2010)
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy (December 22, 2010)

2009

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (March 25, 2009)
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes (May 27, 2009)
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (July 22, 2009)
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald (September 23, 2009)
On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel by Tony Cohan (November 24, 2009)