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There are so many ways to tackle a book involving travel, which offers another great way to incorporate nonfiction into your list but leaves the door open for those beach read novels too.

I just saw Michael Tucker on a TV show talking about his new book. Turns out he and his wife Jill Eikenberry have several books (he's the author) of their life and travels in Italy. Living in a Foreign Language Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press is one. I also think of Under the Tuscan Sun. See, my nonfiction habits are showing again.

I thought of Under the Tuscan Sun too! Also Jon Krakauer's books like Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. Any book about a road trip (in case you couldn't decide on just one from this year's prompt!)

You can go fiction with Around the World in Eighty Days or the non-fiction version with Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

I'm planning to read Strangers on a Train - I'm just guessing from the title that it involves travel. And I've been wanting to read it for a little while now anyway.

I've been meaning to read The Wangs vs. the World. Road trip!

I'm currently reading Travels with Charley: In Search of America for this years road trip prompt, but it would fit in this prompt too. I think I will either go for Walking the Nile a true story about a great British man who walked the length of the Nile and all the problems he had to go through or The Corfu Trilogy another true story about a widow who moved her family from England to Corfu in the 1930's.

For young adult, I just read Meant to Be and it was a cute, fast read with travel. She goes on a school trip.

I think I will try to read The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

I loved Travels with Charley: In Search of America

This year it will be The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain & The Time Traveler's Wife & Around the World in Eighty Days

Gonna go with the obvious On the Road for this one. Although I'm going to London next September and could possibly pick up a travel book for this one.

I bought too many road trip books. I may do The Bette Davis Club.

I cannot recommend The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific enough! I listened to it this year for my book about a culture I was unfamiliar with on the recommendation of a friend. It's a smart and hilarious travelogue written by a guy who moves to a remote island in the South Pacific and explores their culture. I might read Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by the same author for this prompt.

Love & Gelato is a super cute young adult read that fits perfectly!

With or Without You The heroine travels to Nepal.

I enjoyed another book by this author lately Wrapped Up in You that include a trip by the heroine to the massai mara und meeting her personal Massai warrior :)

About Grace. Another one i bought and never read.

I think I will use The Lord of the Rings for this prompt. The entire story is pretty much based on travel.

This will be an open category for me, I'll likely be able to slot one of my book club ones in it especially since it can definitely be broadly interpreted.

I'm considering either Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time or The Great Railway Bazaar. Been wanting to read both for a while.

I am going to read The Grapes of Wrath. I am reading it for another group for "A book about a new beginning". I read it in high school, and I am wanting to see if my feelings have changed about it 16 years later.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird. I read this years ago on a trip to Colorado. I'll be going again next summer and plan to read it again.

Looks like my copy of The Glass Sentence will finally get to come out and play. Travel and maps and wonky time!

poshpenny wrote: "Looks like my copy of The Glass Sentence will finally get to come out and play. Travel and maps and wonky time!"

Oh The Glass Sentence would be perfect for this one!

How Not To Travel The World by Lauren Juliff is a great read! Funny, and easy to get through. I'd highly recommend it!

I've had The Savage Detectives on my TBR for a while now, looks like it'll fit this category and I can cross it off!

(Though if I was doing rereads, I'd definitely be doing Lord of the Rings here too haha)

I read I Don't Care if We Never Get Back: 30 Games in 30 Days on the Best Worst Baseball Road Trip Ever for the challenge last year and loved it. Highly recommended, especially if you are a fan of baseball, but even if you aren't.

One of my favorite travel writers is Paul Theroux, especially his books about train travel.

Yes! Riding the Iron Rooster is perfect for this challenge.

poshpenny wrote: "Looks like my copy of The Glass Sentence will finally get to come out and play. Travel and maps and wonky time!"

Thank you! I had never heard of this title and it looks great!

Brenna wrote: "I'm considering either Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time or The Great Railway Bazaar. Been wanting to read both for a while."

Turn Right at Machu Picchu works for a few other challenges I am doing in 2017, and so does The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. I guess I will just decide when the time comes which one I feel like reading.

Using this challenge, which I am doing with my Mom, to introduce her to John Shors, one of my favorite authors. So for this category, we will be reading Dragon House.

I'm gonna stretch this one by using a book that involve travelling in space.

Would Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #2) be considered as a book involving travel?

I would recommend Wild by Cheryl Strayed, Eat, Pray, Love or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil to anyone who hasn't read them. As for my challenge pick, I plan to read A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.

Kelli wrote: "I would recommend Wild by Cheryl Strayed, Eat, Pray, Love or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil to anyone who hasn't read them. As for my challenge pick, I plan to read A Moveable Feast by Ern..."

Oh I was going to use Eat, Pray, Love for a different prompt! I will switch it to this one then :) thank you!!

Breakfast with Buddha

Loved this book. It's about a cross-country trip that a man has to take for personal reasons, and also has to bring along his sister's guru. That's all I'm going to say!

I don't read much of travel fiction but I did find a list for this prompt:
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One my aunt leant to me and I need to think about returning sometime soon South from Granada: A Sojourn in Southern Spain

I've also always wanted to read The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Also I've had Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past on my shelf for years, hopefully 2017 will be the year I finally tackle it.

I'll take "Categories I Have Too Many Options For" for 500, please.

I *love* travelogues and own a number of them. HOW AM I TO CHOOSE?

Kat wrote: "I cannot recommend The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific enough! I listened to it this year for my book about a culture I was unfamiliar with on the recommendati..."

Oh my god yes. I love Troost! I've read both of these and have Lost on Planet China, as well. They are SO, SO FUNNY.

Perhaps you'd like to travel with a familiar face.

I really enjoyed the documentary series Ewan McGregor and his BFF Charlie Boorman did, but haven't yet read the books. I keep meaning to.

Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World is the two of them riding motorcycles 20,000 miles around the world. for the show to give you a taste.

Long Way Down they did a couple of years later, 15,000 miles from the top of Scotland to the bottom of South Africa.

Michael Palin of Monty Python fame has been doing travel shows/books for decades, including going Around the World in 80 Days: Companion to the PBS Series

I'm doing The Woman in Cabin 10 for this one. The story takes place onboard a cruise ship.

I'm thinking of Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene - seen the movie but not read the book!

Darlene wrote: "I'm doing The Woman in Cabin 10 for this one. The story takes place onboard a cruise ship."

Great suggestion! I'll be doing the same :).

I'm honestly contemplating "Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming's Expedition Through Canada in 1872" thanks to yesterday's Google doodle. It helps that I work in rail and has a historical interest.

On another note, Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ has it registered for a whopping 10 entries depending on how you spell it out and how you use George Grant's name (with M/Munroe). I searched for "ocean to ocean grant".

I'm reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry for this one. And sorry, but I can't figure how to make the book title a link in my iPhone.

Wvalice wrote: "I'm reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry for this one. And sorry, but I can't figure how to make the book title a link in my iPhone."

You can't in the app. It only works in a browser.

Sofie wrote: "On another note, Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ has it registered for a whopping 10 entries depending on how you spell it out and how you use George Grant's name (with M/Munroe). I searched for "ocean to ocean grant". "

Fixed

I'm considering West With the Night by Beryl Markham, a pioneer aviatrix who flew solo across the Atlantic only from east to west.

Absolutely fantastic book about an amazing woman. You will love this book.

I highly recommend The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet . Not just a great story but also wonderful drawings and maps in the margins. Really love this book.

I'm in two mind about this one. I used to read a lot of travel writing, and I could certainly find a book in this genre (there must be a Bruce Chatwin I missed!). On the other hand I started reading Court voyage sentimental, which is obviously a good fit...

Racing the Sun, Karina Halle