This is a list of the books organized by country that have been reviewed and/or inspired travel on this blog. Clicking on the linked books will take you to their corresponding blog post/s. Unlinked books are on the list waiting for future travel. For total transparency, I have denoted the books I have yet to read with (TBR). I will continue to update the list as I read and find books for later travels. If you have a suggestion of a book you don’t see on the list, please do let me know! I hope this list will also serve as a resource for you and other readers/travelers!
Travel Inspiration
- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts
- How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Revised: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter by Matt Kepnes
- Conquering Mountains: How To Solo Travel The World Fearlessly by Kristin Addis
- Love With a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir by Torre DeRoche
- What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir by Kristin Newman
- Storybook Travels: From Eloise’s New York to Harry Potter’s London, Visits to 30 of the Best-Loved Landmarks in Children’s Literature by Colleen Dunn Bates & Susan La Tempa
- Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen’s Bath to Earnest Hemingway’s Key West by Shannon McKenna Schmidt & Joni Rendon
- Reading on Location by Luisa Moncada & Scala Quin
- Once Upon a Time in Great Britain by Melanie Wentz
- Traveling Literary America: A Complete Guide to Literary Landmarks by B. J. Welborn
- The Ideals Guide to Literary Places in the U.S. by Michelle Prater Burke
Antarctica
Canada
- Prince Edward Island: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Whitehorse: Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose by By Robert Service
Denmark
- The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country by Helen Russell
- The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson
England
- England: Jane Austen, the Complete Works by Jane Austen
- Bath: Jane Austen, the Complete Works by Jane Austen
- Bath: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Bath: Vathek by William Beckford
- Brighton: Sanditon by Jane Austen
- Corfe: The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
- Dorset: Enid Blyton and her Enchantment with Dorset by Andrew Norman
- Dorset: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
- Guernsey: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (TBR)
- Leicester: The Sunne In Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
- London: Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice by Paula Byrne (TBR)
- London: Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
- London: Paddington Bear by Michael Bond, R.W. Alley
- London: Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
- London: Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- London: William Shakespeare, the Complete Works by William Shakespeare
- London: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Stonehenge: Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
- Winchester: Le Mort d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
- Winchester: When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
- Windsor: How Watson Learned The Trick by Arthur Conan Doyle
France
- Paris: French Milk by Lucy Knisley
- Paris: Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- France: When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
Holland
- Delft: A Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- Amsterdam: Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, edited by Otto Frank
- Zaanse Schans: Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
Italy
- Tuscany: Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
- Verona: Letters to Juliet: Celebrating Shakespeare’s Greatest Heroine, the Magical City of Verona, and the Power of Love by Lise Friedman & Ceil Friedman
- Italy: An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town by David Farley
Japan
Morocco
- Casablanca: The Caliph’s House by Tahir Shah
Myanmar
- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
- The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
United States
Alaska
- Haines: Find the Good by Heather Lende
- Juneau: A Wolf Called Romeo by Nick Jans
- Juneau: Patsy Ann of Alaska: The True Story of a Dog by Tricia Brown, Illustrated by Jim Fowler
- Juneau: Treadwell Gold: An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin by Sheila Kelly
- Juneau: Kendlers’: The Story of a Pioneer Alaska Juneau by Mathilde Kendler
- Sitka: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
- Alaska: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
California
- Los Angeles: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Florida
- Harry Potter World, Universal, Orlando: Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter World, Universal, Orlando: Here at Hogwarts by Lucy Knisley
Oregon
- Newport: Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach (TBR)
- Newport: Murder at Yaquina Head (Thomas Martindale Mysteries Book 1) by Ron Lovell
- Portland: Ramona by Beverly Cleary
Texas
- Austen: The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (TBR)
Maryland
- Rockville: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
- Boston: Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Boston: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Concord: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Concord: Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Did not finish.)
- Concord: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (Did not finish.)
- Concord: Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson (TBR)
New York
- NYC: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
- NYC: Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
- NYC: Only Gossip Prospers by Lorraine Tosiello
Virginia
- Chincoteague: Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
I hope you find your next favorite book here!
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