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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    The Shadow Catcher: A Novel
    by Marianne Wiggins

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  2. 402.
    Skid Road
    by Murray Cromwell Morgan

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  3. 403.
    The Slide Area (Midnight Classics)
    by Gavin Lambert

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  4. 404.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    by Joan Didion

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  5. 405.
    Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
    by David Guterson

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  6. 406.
    THE SWAN: Tales of the Sacramento Valley
    by Andrew F. O'Hara

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  7. 407.
    Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Armistead Maupin

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  8. 408.
    Until Proven Guilty
    by J.A. Jance

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    Vanishing Breed: Photographs of the Cowboy and the West
    by William Albert Allard

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  10. 411.
    Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers: A Novel
    by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

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  11. 412.
    The Willow Field (Vintage Contemporaries)
    by William Kittredge

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  12. 413.
    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris

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  13. 414.
    Arctic Dreams
    by Barry Lopez

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  14. 415.
    Last Places: A Journey in the North
    by Lawrence Millman

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  15. 417.
    The Solitude of Thomas Cave: A Novel
    by Georgina Harding

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  16. 418.
    Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent
    by William L. Fox

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  17. 419.
    Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
    by Sara Wheeler

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  18. 420.
    This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
    by Gretel Ehrlich

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    Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe
    by Christina Hardyment

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  20. 422.
    Here Is Where We Meet: A fiction
    by John Berger

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  21. 423.
    The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
    by Barbara Sjoholm

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  22. 424.
    Pillars of Hercules
    by Paul Theroux

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    The Reluctant Empress
    by Brigitte Hamann

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  24. 426.
    Vienna Blood
    by Frank Tallis

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  25. 427.
    The Sorrow of Belgium (Tusk Ivories)
    by Hugo Claus

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  26. 428.
    Smilla's Sense of Snow
    by Peter Hoeg

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  27. 429.
    The Helsinki Chronicles of Dr. Louise C. Love and Mr. P.
    by Arthur M. Alexander

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  28. 430.
    The Kalevala
    by Elias Lonnrot

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    Seven Brothers
    by Aleksis Kivi

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  30. 432.
    Capturing Paris: A Novel
    by Katharine Davis

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    The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
    by Edmund White

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  33. 435.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  34. 437.
    A Moveable Feast
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  35. 438.
    My Life in France
    by Julia Child

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  36. 439.
    Nadja
    by Andre Breton

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    Paris in the Fifties
    by Stanley Karnow

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  38. 441.
    Paris to the Moon
    by Adam Gopnik

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  39. 442.
    A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy
    by Laurence Sterne

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  40. 443.
    Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  41. 444.
    Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
    by Robert, Louis Stevenson

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  42. 445.
    Two Towns in Provence
    by M.F.K. Fisher

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  43. 446.
    Vie Francaise
    by Jean-Paul Dubois

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  44. 447.
    A Year in Provence
    by Peter Mayle

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  45. 448.
    Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941
    by William L. Shirer

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  46. 449.
    Berlin Noir (Crime, Penguin)
    by Philip Kerr

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