25 Greatest Travel Books

Image from Budget Travel feature (see link in post)

Consider this post an addendum to the summer reading post that I wrote a few weeks ago....  Budget Travel just published a list of the 25 Great Travel Books of All Time, and we have most of them here in the library!  So, if you're like me and will be spending most of your summer in Blacksburg, take a look at this list for some works of literature that will take you somewhere else for a short while!  I've linked all the titles below to their Addison records so that you can easily find them, check them out, and take them home with you.  The list seems to be in no particular order, except for fiction/nonfiction:

Fiction:

• On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
• The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles
• The Beach, by Alex Garland (use Interlibrary Loan to get this book!)
• Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
• White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
• A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
• The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
• Open City, by Teju Cole
• The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
• Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
• The Plumed Serpent, by D. H. Lawrence
• Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin
• The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction:

• In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson (use Interlibrary Loan to get this book!)
• Video Night in Kathmandu, by Pico Iyer (use Interlibrary Loan to get this book!)
• Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
• Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck
• Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey
• Wrong about Japan, by Peter Carey
• Confederates in the Attic, by Tony Horwitz
• Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
• Shadows on the Grass, by Isak Dinesen
• The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen
• The Great Railway Bazaar, by Paul Theroux
• In Patagonia, by Bruce Chatwin
• Great Plains, by Ian Frazier (use Interlibrary Loan to get this book!)