To satisfy a bit of wanderlust we all tend to have this time of year, take a look at Budget Travel’s list of greatest travel literature. This group of books, both fiction and nonfiction, contains interesting and diverse picks. Happy travels!
FICTION
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
The Beach by Alex Garland
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Open City by Teju Cole
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
NONFICTION
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Great Plains by Ian Frazier