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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    Macedonia
    by Harvey Pekar

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  2. 252.
    The Doll (Central European Classics)
    by Boleslaw Prus

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  3. 254.
    The Appointment: A Novel
    by Herta Muller

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    Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir
    by Dervla Murphy

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  5. 256.
    The Bastard of Istanbul
    by Elif Shafak

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  7. 258.
    Halide's Gift: A Novel
    by Frances Kazan

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  8. 259.
    An Island in Istanbul: At Home on Heybeliada
    by M. A. Whitten

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  9. 260.
    Istanbul: Memories and the City
    by Orhan Pamuk

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  10. 261.
    The Janissary Tree: A Novel
    by Jason Goodwin

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  11. 262.
    The Snake Stone: A Novel
    by Jason Goodwin

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  12. 263.
    My Name Is Red
    by Orhan Pamuk

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  13. 265.
    Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place
    by Mary lee Settle

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  14. 266.
    Everything Is Illuminated
    by Jonathan Safran Foer

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  15. 267.
    Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library)
    by Wilfred Thesiger

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  16. 268.
    Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
    by Tony Horwitz

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  18. 270.
    A Cafe on the Nile
    by Bartle Bull

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  19. 271.
    Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  20. 272.
    Palace of Desire (The Cairo Trilogy)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  21. 273.
    Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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    Midaq Alley
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  24. 277.
    The Yacoubian Building: A Novel
    by Alaa Al Aswany

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  25. 278.
    Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
    by Alison Wearing

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  26. 280.
    Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran
    by Jason Elliot

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  27. 281.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

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  28. 282.
    The Saffron Kitchen
    by Yasmin Crowther

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  29. 283.
    The Septembers of Shiraz
    by Dalia Sofer

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  30. 285.
    The Marsh Arabs
    by Wilfred Thesiger

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  31. 286.
    A Beggar in Jerusalem: A Novel
    by Elie Wiesel

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  32. 289.
    O Jerusalem
    by Dominique Lapierre

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  33. 290.
    Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems - A Bilingual Edition
    by Yehuda Amichai

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  34. 291.
    Shira (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
    by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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  35. 292.
    A Woman in Jerusalem
    by A. B. Yehoshua

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  36. 294.
    The Hakawati
    by Rabih Alameddine

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  37. 295.
    Wolves of the Crescent Moon
    by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

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    Coffee and Dates
    by Shihab Ghanem (ed.)

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  39. 297.
    Dubai Tales A Collection of Short Stories by Mohamed Al Murr
    by Mohamed Al Murr

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    The wink of the Mona Lisa, and other stories from the Gulf
    by Muhammad Murr

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  41. 299.
    Telling Tales : An Oral History of Dubai
    by Julia Wheeler

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  42. 300.
    Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape
    by Raja Shehadeh

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