National Geographic Traveler's "Ultimate Travel Library"

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Books are added to the source list regularly. Feel free to add those books to this list! (But please add newly-represented countries to the list below.)

National Geographic Traveler "asked dozens of travelers…to name the books that have most enriched their sense of place and best informed their peregrinations. To their picks, we’ve added our own to offer here our ultimate library of travel books … novels and narrative nonfiction and classic photography books."

Each region has several "General" books listed, then books about specific countries.

  • Africa: Botswana, The Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, & South Africa
  • Asia: Afghanistan, Armenia, Borneo, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, incl. Tibet, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, The Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet & Vietnam
  • Australia & the Pacific: Australia, Bali, Borneo, East Timor, French Polynesia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands & Tuvalu
  • The Caribbean: Antigua, Bermuda & Haiti
  • Central & South America: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay & Venezuela
  • Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Rep., Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Turkey, & Ukraine
  • The Middle East: Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank, & Yemen
  • North America: Canada, Mexico, USA (General), USA East, USA Central, USA West
  • Polar Regions: Antarctica, & Greenland
  • Western Europe & the Mediterranean: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, & UK

Note: Some books are listed in more than one region: Shopping for Buddhas (Hong Kong/Nepal), Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice (General Central and South America/Brazil), The Beauty of History (Estonia/Latvia), Between the Woods and the Water (Hungary/Romania), The Sun Also Rises (France/Spain). Also, there are books about Tibet listed under both China and Tibet.

See also Around the World in 80 Books: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/8646.

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  1. 201.
    Vivir Para Contarla / Living to Tell the Tale
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  2. 202.
    Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
    by Oscar Arias

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  3. 203.
    Cuba (National Geographic)
    by Elizabeth Newhouse

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  4. 204.
    The Handsomest Man in Cuba: An Escapade
    by Lynette Chiang

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  5. 205.
    Havana: Autobiography of a City
    by Alfredo Jose Estrada

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  6. 206.
    Dead Man in Paradise
    by J. B. MacKinnon

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  7. 207.
    Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire
    by Tui De Roy

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  8. 208.
    The Panama Hat Trail
    by Tom Miller

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  9. 209.
    Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure
    by Mark Honigsbaum

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  10. 210.
    Bitter Grounds: A Novel
    by Sandra Benitez

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  11. 211.
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    Obras Completas Y Otros Cuentos/complete Works And Other Stories
    by Augusto Monterroso

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  12. 212.
    I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
    by Rigoberta Menchu

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  13. 213.
    The Ventriloquist's Tale
    by Pauline Melville

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  14. 215.
    The Mosquito Coast
    by Paul Theroux

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  15. 216.
    The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
    by Gioconda Belli

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  16. 217.
    Come Together, Fall Apart
    by Cristina Henriquez

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  18. 219.
    The News from Paraguay: A Novel
    by Lily Tuck

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  19. 220.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    by Thornton Wilder

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  20. 221.
    Cellophane
    by Marie Arana

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  21. 222.
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    The Last Days of the Incas
    by Kim MacQuarrie

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  22. 223.
    The Lost City
    by Henry Shukman

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  23. 224.
    The Tree of Red Stars
    by Tessa Bridal

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  24. 225.
    Dona Ines Vs. Oblivion: A Novel
    by Ana Teresa Torres

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  25. 226.
    In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
    by Redmond O'Hanlon

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  26. 227.
    The Mighty Orinoco (Early Classics of Science Fiction)
    by Jules Verne

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  27. 228.
    Swallowing Stones: A Novel
    by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

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  28. 229.
    Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
    by Robert D. Kaplan

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  29. 230.
    Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
    by Isabel Fonseca

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  30. 231.
    Cafe Europa: Life After Communism
    by Slavenka Drakulic

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  31. 232.
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
    by Agatha Christie

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  32. 233.
    Broken April
    by Ismail Kadare

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  34. 235.
    Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country
    by Tony Fabijancic

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  35. 236.
    Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys (Terra Incognita Series, 7)
    by Josip Novakovich

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  36. 238.
    My Merry Mornings: Stories from Prague
    by Ivan Klima

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    My First Loves
    by Ivan Klima

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  38. 240.
    Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990
    by Vaclav Havel

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  39. 241.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera

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  40. 242.
    The Beauty of History
    by Viivi Luik

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  41. 243.
    Czar's Madman
    by Jaan Kross

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  43. 245.
    Treading Air
    by Jaan Kross

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  44. 248.
    Under the Frog
    by Tibor Fischer

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  45. 249.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

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