Travel Reads Book Club

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January 2023

Previous Selections

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

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 Ferguson, 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, 2013The 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 Half-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 by Betool Khedairi, April 27, 2011
• Gone to New York: Adventures in the City by Ian Frazier, May 25, 2011
• In Siberia by Colin Thubron, 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