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Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
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Tim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
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Joanne Harris (Goodreads Author)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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Frances Mayes (Goodreads Author)
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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Tim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
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In a Sunburned Country
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
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Notes from a Small Island
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Out of Africa
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
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1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
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Gone with the Wind
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
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Blue Highways
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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The Sun Also Rises
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The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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A Portrait of Emily Price
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Katherine Reay (Goodreads Author)
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
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Alan Brennert (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 138,918 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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The Shipping News
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
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A Moveable Feast
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The Old Man and the Sea
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
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The Secret Garden
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A Town Like Alice
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The Poisonwood Bible
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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On the Road
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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Eric Weiner (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 38,327 ratings
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Daughter of Fortune
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
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A Passage to India
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Seven Years in Tibet
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1)
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Kon-Tiki
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Hawaii
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen (Goodreads Author)
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
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Like Water for Chocolate
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Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
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Doreen Orion (Goodreads Author)
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Africa and Back: With Dave and Dorothy
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Dorothy May Mercer (Goodreads Author)
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Desert Solitaire
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Gorillas in the Mist
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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My Life in France
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
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Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
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The Beach
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Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
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Exodus
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
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Highway of Diamonds: An International Travel Adventure
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J. Jaye Gold (Goodreads Author)
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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The Bookseller of Kabul
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The Day The World Sneezed: March 12, 2020
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Eddie Jones (Goodreads Author)
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
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The Austen Escape
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Katherine Reay (Goodreads Author)
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The Lord of the Rings
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Assassination Vacation
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Paris to the Moon
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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Always a Traveler, Never a Tourist: In Search of People and Places on the Road Less Traveled
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Judy Bloomberg (Goodreads Author)
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Shantaram
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Gregory David Roberts (Goodreads Author)
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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes
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Honolulu
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Alan Brennert (Goodreads Author)
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The Wrong Shade of Yellow
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Margaret Eleanor Leigh (Goodreads Author)
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East of Eden
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The Lacuna
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Blackberry Wine
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360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World
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John Higham (Goodreads Author)
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The Roca Group: A Tale of Financial Espionage
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J. Jaye Gold (Goodreads Author)
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Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía
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Stumbling Thru: Hike Your Own Hike
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A. Digger Stolz (Goodreads Author)
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The Travelers Within: Into The Unknown
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Daniel Mode (Goodreads Author)
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Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)
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Removed Isn't It Pretty To Think So?. Spam. Author is from SoCal and writes about SoCal.
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Thanks. Sounds good. Always looking for a good travel memoir.
Cheryl wrote: "Thanks. Sounds good. Always looking for a good travel memoir."Enjoy!
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The system found and removed 1 duplicate.deleted: Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study - obviously NOT a travel book but psychological non-fiction
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