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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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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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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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Life of Pi
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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On the Road
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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In a Sunburned Country
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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Frances Mayes (Goodreads Author)
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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Notes from a Small Island
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
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Blue Highways
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Like Water for Chocolate
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3.95 avg rating — 389,289 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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3.77 avg rating — 201,824 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,165,447 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
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4.18 avg rating — 53,493 ratings
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Just One Day (Just One Day, #1)
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Gayle Forman (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 86,411 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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3.81 avg rating — 64,011 ratings
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Out of Africa
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3.91 avg rating — 47,298 ratings
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
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3.85 avg rating — 78,361 ratings
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Seven Years in Tibet
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4.10 avg rating — 26,166 ratings
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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4.19 avg rating — 29,822 ratings
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Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
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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 — 38,328 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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David Grann (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 107,876 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,275,919 ratings
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13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope, #1)
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Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 83,631 ratings
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Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
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3.53 avg rating — 18,128 ratings
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Highway of Diamonds: An International Travel Adventure
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J. Jaye Gold (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 47 ratings
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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)
4.46 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,922,592 ratings
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
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Don Quixote
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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3.90 avg rating — 68,824 ratings
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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
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And the Mountains Echoed
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
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The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
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Tahir Shah (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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Finding the Rainbow
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Rachel McGrath (Goodreads Author)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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Cold Mountain
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
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Around the World in 80 Days Michael Palin
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The Travelers Within: Into The Unknown
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Daniel Mode (Goodreads Author)
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The Lord of the Rings
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Wanderlove
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Kirsten Hubbard (Goodreads Author)
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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William Kamkwamba (Goodreads Author)
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The Snow Leopard
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
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Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
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Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
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Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
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A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 9,441 ratings
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Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
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3.93 avg rating — 17,334 ratings
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Riding the Iron Rooster
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4.04 avg rating — 9,489 ratings
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Stephen Fry in America
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3.79 avg rating — 5,529 ratings
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Last Chance to See
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4.32 avg rating — 25,824 ratings
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
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4.09 avg rating — 10,240 ratings
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Heartbound
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P.I. Alltraine (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings
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One Thousand Wells: How an Audacious Goal Taught Me to Love the World Instead of Save It
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Jena Lee Nardella (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 532 ratings
score: 778,
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
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4.13 avg rating — 13,128 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,697,002 ratings
score: 754,
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,425,694 ratings
score: 735,
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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4.17 avg rating — 62,066 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 355,219 ratings
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Lost Horizon
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The Songlines
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3.96 avg rating — 12,215 ratings
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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White Fang
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Viajes ficcionalizados 1: París-Bruselas-Estocolmo-Berna-Liechtenstein
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Albert Also Lacasa (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Looking at Mexico / Mexico Looks Back: English/ Spanish
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Janet Sternburg (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 700,
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Lo que me llevo del desierto no es arena
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Albert Also Lacasa (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 744,802 ratings
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
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One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
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The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
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Alden Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Come Away with Me
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Les Misérables
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The Sun Also Rises
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Lost on Planet China
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McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
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Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 11,149 ratings
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Dragon Rider (Dragon Rider, #1)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
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So glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Love the book, would never class it as "wanderlust." :/

So glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Love the book, would never class it as "wanderlust." :/"
I love Listopia's, but there are several lists where I see titles mentioned which make me go 'Eh...?' :-) I'm rarely sure if it is just spamming or if the person who added the book genuinely considered it to be fitting for a certain list.
Like Rebecca, I'm glad though I'm not the only one who had my doubts about Harry Potter being on this list ;-)
Something which rather irritates me is Goodreads authors adding their own books to a list, as kind of a promotion, even though the book doesn't (fully) fit the description of the Listopia. I noticed an example here as well. Authors, if you have to go to these lengths to promote your book, yuk!

So glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Love the book, would never class it as "wanderlust." :/"
I love Listopia'..."
I deleted it. Thank you for your answers!

There's more than one Harry Potter on this list...

There's more than one Harry Potter on this list..."
:-D I go through the list tonight, but now I have to go to work ;-) :-D
Thank you for the hint!

There's more than one Harry Potter on this list..."
I deleted them all.
What about the "Insurgent"-Trilogy bei Roth? I only saw the movie, but it didn't seem to be much about traveling/Wanderlust... any doubts?


Thanks!

Although I have asked the same question for different Listopia's, for this one it is easy to answer, as the description says "whether the narrator has shifted their entire life or is just going on a short road trip". The Hobbit might be fantasy but it does make one 'want to pack up and board a plane'.

Although I have asked the same question for different Listopia's, for this one it is easy to answer, as the description says "whether the narrator..."
Thank you Booklovinglady your comment does make sense, I appreciate you letting me know. I am all for boarding a plane at anytime and am an extremely fast packer. Thank you.


The list is public, so feel free to add her books and other relevant ones :)



Agreed, and done.

Agreed, and done."
Thanks!
Nice list, BTW! Featured in the Fall 2018 Seasonal Reading Challenge, to read a book off this list.


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