Literature for Travel

Explore the best travel literature with our curated list of books that inspire wanderlust. Discover classic and contemporary travel reads to fuel your adventures and transport you around the world.

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Red Azalea

by Anchee Min

A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a …
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Wild Swans

by Jung Chang

Memoir of three Chinese women, Jung Chang, her mother, and her grandmother in twentieth-century China.
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Nicholas and Alexandra

by Robert K. Massie

A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of …
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Recounts the experiences of Shukhov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia, as he struggles for survival.
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Wolves Eat Dogs

by Martin Cruz Smith

A Moscow detective is sent to Chernobyl for a frightening case in the most spectacular entry yet in Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko series. In …
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A Vietcong Memoir

by Truong Nhu Tang

"An absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion …
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Jar City

by Arnaldur Indridason

Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson investigates the killing of a solitary man, found murdered in his Reykjavik apartment, and discovers that the dead man had been accused …
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Bangkok 8

by John Burdett

A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities. …
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