10 Books with Travel Locations in Their Title

Happy Tuesday! Can we take a moment to realize August is just over halfway through? When in the world did that happy? How has your August been? Any travel plans, or will you be like me and travel by book? I know we all like to travel by book. So, I thought I would put together a list of 10 books with travel locations in their title.

This is another twist on the weekly Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl. This week we are supposed to share our favorite places to read. Sadly, I could only come up with five places, and none of them are really all that special. Seriously, my reading normally happens sitting at home, whether it be at my dining table, on the couch, in the bay window, or out in the treehouse. Instead, I went with books with travel locations in their title.

Now to the list of 10 books with Travel Locations in Their TItle. I’ll separate them by continent. All summaries are from Goodreads.

North America

Kissing in America by Margo Rabb

• Release Date: May 2016
• Genere: YA/Contempory/Romance

In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels—118 of them, to be exact—to dull the pain of her loss that’s still so present. Her romantic fantasies become a reality when she meets Will, who can relate to Eva’s grief. Unfortunately, after Eva falls head-over-heels, he picks up and moves to California with barely any warning. Not wanting to lose the only person who has been able to pull her out of sadness—and, perhaps, her first shot at real love—Eva and her best friend, Annie, concoct a plan to travel to the west coast. As they road trip across America, Eva and Annie confront the complex truth about love. 

The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz

• Release Date: February 2010
• Genre: Middle Grade/Historical Fiction/Sports

Baseball is in the Schneider family blood. From family founder Felix Schneider in the 1800s to Snider Flint in the present day, each family member has a strong tie to the game and Brooklyn. This family has dodged bullets on a battlefield, pitched perfect games, and dealt with the devastating loss of family and the Brooklyn Dodgers through the years. Nine innings, nine generations. One game, one family. Through it all, one thing remains true: the family bonds are as strong as a love of the game.

Natchez Burning by Greg Iles

• Release Date: April 2014
• Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now, the beloved family doctor is accused of murdering Viola Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is determined to save his father.

The quest for answers sends Penn deep into the past—into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the state’s wealthiest and most powerful men. Now Penn must follow a bloody trail that stretches back forty years to one undeniable fact: no one—black or white, young or old, brave or not—is ever truly safe.

South America

My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende

• Release Date: January 2003
• Genre: Memoir

Here are the almost mythic figures of a Chilean family with whom readers of Allende’s fiction will feel immediately at home. And here, too, is an unforgettable portrait of a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit. Although she claims to have been an outsider in her native land, Isabel Allende carries with her even today the mark of the politics, myth, and magic of her homeland. In My Invented County, she explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and that most intimate connection to her place of origin.

Europe

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

• Release Date: December 2020
• Genre: Magical Realism

Paras, short for “Perestroika,” is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds her stall door open and wanders all the way to the City of Light. She’s dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but she isn’t afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians.

Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city’s lush green spaces, nourished by Frida’s strategic trips to the vegetable market. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother live in seclusion. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom. But how long can a runaway horse stay undiscovered in Paris? How long can a boy keep her hidden and all to himself?

Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

• Release Date: July 2013
• Genre: Historical Fiction

March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn is a published poet. She has never seen the world beyond her home on Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when her first fan letter arrives from a college student, David Graham, in far-away America. As the two strike up a correspondence, their exchanges blossom into friendship and eventually into love. But as World War I engulfs Europe and David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only wait for him on Skye.
 
June 1940: At the start of World War II, Elspeth’s daughter, Margaret, has fallen for a pilot in the Royal Air Force. Her mother warns her against seeking love in wartime, an admonition Margaret doesn’t understand. Then, after a bomb rocks Elspeth’s house and letters hidden in a wall come raining down, Elspeth disappears. Only a single letter remains as a clue to Elspeth’s whereabouts. As Margaret sets out to discover where her mother has gone, she must also face the truth of what happened to her family long ago.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

• Release Date: July 2008
• Genre: Historical Fiction

January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb…

As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends – and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island – boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society’s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.

Africa

Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

• Release Date: August 2009
• Genre: Contemporary

As baker Angel Tungaraza busies herself with her customers’ orders, we learn about their lives: Ken Akimoto — with his penchant for partying, her best client — and Bosco, his lovesick driver; Dr. Rejoice, without whom she’d never cope with the hot flashes that send her delving into her brassiere for a handkerchief so often these days; Odile, an AIDS worker whose love life Angel has taken a keen interest in; and not forgetting young Leocadie, Modeste, and their baby boy, Beckham. Angel works her magic, solving problems for all around her; and in turn, they help her lay her own demons to rest: perhaps she can finally face the truth about the loss of her own son and daughter and achieve a sense of peace . . .

Asia

Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan’s Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family’s Past by Jessica J. Lee

• Release Date: July 2020
• Genre: Memoir

Taiwan is an island of extremes: towering mountains, lush forests, and barren escarpment. The geographical and political landscape is forever evolving between shifting tectonic plates and a history rife with tension. After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather’s life, Jessica J. Lee seeks to piece together the fragments of her family’s history as they moved from China to Taiwan and then on to Canada. But as she navigates the tumultuous terrain of Taiwan, Lee finds herself having to traverse fissures in language, memory, and history as she searches for the pieces of her family left behind.

The Cobra King of Kathmandu by P.B. Kerr

• Release Date: February 2007
• Genre: Middle Grade/Fantasy

In the third book of the bestselling Children of the Lamp series, djinn twins, John and Philippa Gaunt, are on the trail of another magical mystery. As they travel from New York to London to Nepal and India on a whirlwind adventure, the twins try to help their friend and fellow djinn, Buck, find out who murdered his friend using the venomous snakebite of the king cobra. All too soon, John and Philippa find themselves caught up in the lethal world of the Cult of the Nine Cobras, only to discover that they themselves are a target of the creepy cobra cult.

Are you ready to travel without leaving home? Did I miss any good books with travel locations in their title?

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