Before heading off on our round-the-world (RTW) trip we read every travel related book we could find. Here is a list of our favorite books that inspired us to travel long term. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. This list will constantly be updated as we still enjoy reading books on travel, so check back often…
RTW Family Travel
- 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World
- One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
- WorldTrek: A Family Odyssey
- Sihpromatum – I Grew my Boobs in China
- Changing Gears: A Family Odyssey to the End of the World
General Travel
- Wide-Eyed Wanderers: A Befuddling Journey from the Rat Race to the Roads of Latin America & Africa
- Road Fever
- The Places In Between
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Expat
- A Year in Provence
- A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover’s Dream
- The Hills of Tuscany: A New Life in an Old Land
- The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Sailing
- Two on a Big Ocean : The Story of the First Circumnavigation of the Pacific Basin in a Small Sailing Ship
- Two Against Cape Horn: A Tale of High Adventure at Sea in One of the Least Known Parts of the World
- Chasing the Long Rainbow: The Drama of a Singlehanded Sailing Race Around the World
- Just Cruising, A Family Travels the World
- Still Cruising- A Family Travels the World: Australia to Asia, Africa and America
- Maiden Voyage
- Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
- Just Imagine: A New Life on an Old Boat (barging in France)
- Bumfuzzle: Just Out Looking for Pirates
Travel Fiction
- A Year in the Merde
- The Messenger of Athens
- The Coroner’s Lunch (series)
- The Kite Runner
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Book Thief
- Cutting for Stone
- Shadow of the Wind
- The Luminaries
Travel Related Children’s Books
- Horrible Histories (series)
- Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
- Around the World in 80 Mysteries (series)
- Amanda in Spain: The Girl in the Painting
- Amanda in England: The Missing Novel
- The Stone of Destiny: Tales From Turkey
Photography
- Digital Photography Composition For Dummies
- Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
- Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War
Travel Guide Books
- Rick Steves’ Paris
- Rick Steves’ France
- Rick Steves’ Spain
- The Rough Guide to Morocco
- Rick Steves’ Ireland
- Rick Steves’ England
- Rick Steves’ Amsterdam, Bruge & Brussels
- Rick Steves’ Prague and Czech Republic
- Rick Steves’ Italy
- Rick Steves’ Snapshots Krakow, Warsaw & Gdansk
- Lonely Planet Ukraine
- Lonely Planet Romania and Bulgaria
- Lonely Planet Discover Turkey
- Rick Steves’ Greece: Athens and the Peloponnese
- Fodor’s Israel
- The Rough Guide to Jordan
- The Rough Guide to Thailand
- The Rough Guide to Cambodia
- The Rough Guide to Vietnam
- Lonely Planet Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei