Travel Reads Book Club

Got wanderlust? Join us for a discussion of a travel-related title every month. We meet the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 5:30pm at the Paseo Verde Library. The meeting is also available via Zoom.

For questions, contact Cathrina at cortiz@hendersonlibraries.com.

Previous Selections

2025

• A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain (January 21, 2025)
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (February 18, 2025)
• To the River by Olivia Laing (March 18, 2025)
• No Place Like Home by Gary Younge (April 17, 2025)
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (May 20, 2025)
• Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (June 17, 2025)
• The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers (July 15, 2025)
• My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (August 19, 2025)
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (September 6, 2025)
• Ghostland by Edward Parnell (October 21, 2025)
• The Nile by Toby Wilkinson (November 18, 2025)
• No meeting in December

2024

• Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman (January 16, 2024)
• No Horizon is So Far by Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (February 20, 2024)
• Mediterranean Winter by Robert D. Kaplan (March 19, 2024)
• The Last Overland by Alex Bescoby (April 16, 2024)
• Maphead by Ken Jennings (May 28, 2024)
• French Dive by Eric Freeze (June 18, 2024)
• Bold Spirit by Linda Lawrence Hunt (July 16, 2024)
• August meeting was cancelled
• Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart (September 17, 2024)
• Adventures of a Continental Drifter by Elliott Hester (October 15, 2024)
• Crossed Off the Map by Shafik Meghji (November 19, 2024)
• My California, edited by Donna Wares (December 17, 2024)

2023

• Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain (January 17, 2023)
• A Woman's World Again, edited by Marybeth Bond (February 21, 2023)
• Zaatar Days, Henna Nights by Maliha Masood (March 21, 2023)
• Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti (April 18, 2023)
• Land of a Thousand Hills by Rosamond Halsey Carr (May 16, 2023)
• The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck (June 20, 2023)
• The Kindness of Strangers, edited by Fearghal O'Nuallain (July 18, 2023)
• Travels with George by Nathaniel Philbrick (August 15, 2023)
• Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn (September 19, 2023)
• The Buddha and the Bee by Cory Mortensen (October 17, 2023)
• Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks (November 21, 2023)
• Wild Nevada, edited by Roberta Moore and Scott Slovic (December 19, 2023)

2022

• River Town by Peter Hesser (January 18, 2022)
• The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy (February 15, 2022)
• Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche (March 15, 2022)
• Falling Off the Map by Pico Iyer (April 19, 2022)
• Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom (May 18, 2022)
• Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris (June 21, 2022)
• The Best American Travel Writing of 2021, edited by Padma Lakshmi (July 19, 2022)
• Braver Than You Think by Maggie Downs (August 16, 2022)
• Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo (September 20, 2022)
• Letter to a Stranger, edited by Colleen Kinder (October 18, 2022)
• The Crossway by Guy Stagg (November 15, 2022)
• Nala's World by Dean Nicholson (December 20, 2022)

2021

• Roam Alone by Hilary Brandt (January 19, 2021)
• Wild About Britain by Brian Jackman (February 16, 2021)
• The Wild Muir by John Muir (March 16, 2021)
• In Search of King Solomon's Mines by Tahir Shah (April 20, 2021)
• At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider (May 18, 2021)
• Alone Across the Arctic by Pam Flowers (June 15, 2021)
• How to Travel the World for Free by Michael Wigge (July 20, 2021)
• To Timbuktu for a Haircut by Rick Antonson (August 17, 2021)
• The Dog Went Over the Mountain by Peter Zheutlin (September 21, 2021)
• Street Without a Name by Kaphka Kassabova (October 19, 2021)
• Ottoman Odyssey by Alev Scott (November 16, 2021)
• Footsteps: Literary Pilgrimages Around the World by Various Authors (December 21, 2021)

2020

• Pilgrim Wheels by Neil Hanson (January 15, 2020)
• Our Towns by James and Deborah Fallows (February 19, 2020)
• Did not meet in March, April, or May 2020
• Chasing Churchill by Celia Sandys (June 24, 2020)
• The Not-Quite States of America by Doug Mack (July 15, 2020)
• The Yellow Envelope by Kim Dinan (August 18, 2020)
• A Tourist in the Arab Spring by Tom Chesshyre (September 15, 2020)
• Growing Old Outrageously by Hilary Linstead and Elisabeth Davies (October 20, 2020)
• Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell (November 17, 2020)
• Travel Tales of a Feisty Fifty-Something by Joanne Nussbaum (December 15, 2020)

2019

• The Black Penguin by Andrew Evans (January 16, 2019)
• Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery (February 20, 2019)
• The Summer of My Greek Taverna by Tom Stone (March 20, 2019)
• Marco Polo Didn't Go There by Rolf Potts (April 17, 2019)
• Hitching Rides with Buddha by Will Ferguso (May 15, 2019)
• Trespassing Across America by Ken Ilgunas (June 19, 2019)
• Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman (July 17, 2019)
• Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming (August 21, 2019)
• Couchsurfing in Iran by Stephan Orth (September 18, 2019)
• The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell (October 16, 2019)
• The Joys of Travel by Thomas Swick (November 20, 2019)
• Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks (December 18, 2019)

2018

• Sojourns of the Soul: One Woman's Journey Around the World and into Her Truth by Dana Micucci (January 17, 2018)
  
• The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America by Mike McIntyre (February 21, 2018)
• A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts (March 21, 2018)
• Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This" by P. J. O'Rourke (April 18, 2018)
• The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians by Philip Marsden (May 16, 2018)
• Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away by Bob Shacochis (June 20, 2018)
• China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford (July 18, 2018)
• The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley (August 15, 2018)
• The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan (September 19, 2018)
• Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco by Erin Byrne (October 17, 2018)
• Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home by Malachy Tallack (November 28, 2018)
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (December 19, 2018)

2017

• Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson (January 18, 2017)
• Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant (February 15, 2017)
• The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino (March 15, 2017)
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (April 19, 2017)
• Narrow Dog to Indian River by Terry Darlington (May 17, 2017)
• Walking the Kiso Road: A Modern-Day Exploration of Old Japan by William Scott Wilson (June 21, 2017)
• Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah by Anna Badkhen (July 19, 2017)
• An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward Larson (August 16, 2017)
• An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet Travel Literature (September 20, 2017)
• So Many Enemies, So Little Time: an American Woman in All the Wrong Places by Elinor Burkett (October 18, 2017)
• The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik (November 15, 2017)
• The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George by Don George (December 20, 2017)

2016

• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown (January 20, 2016)
• Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff (February 17, 2016)
• The Great Railway Bazaar by David Grann (March 16, 2016)
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann (April 20, 2016)
• Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams (May 18, 2016)
• The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (June 15, 2016)
• Last of the Donkey Pilgrims by Kevin O'Hara (July 20, 2016)
• Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli (August 17, 2016)
• On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu (September 21, 2016)
• Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (October 19, 2016)
• Imagined London by Anna Quindlen (November 16, 2016)
• A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Fermor (December 21, 2016)

2015

• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (January 28, 2015)
• West with the Night by Beryl Markham (February 25, 2015)
• Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler (March 25, 2015)
• The Longest Road by Philip Caputo (April 22, 2015)
• Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks (May 20, 2015)
• Following the Equator by Mark Twain (June 17, 2015)
• Silverland by Dervla Murphy (July 15, 2015)
• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (August 19, 2015)
• The End of Night by Paul Bogard (September 16, 2015)
• The Impossible Country by Brian Hall (October 21, 2015)
• Caravans by James Michener (November 18, 2015)
• Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron (December 16, 2015)

2014

• The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers (January 22, 2014)
• In Caliph's House by Tahir Shah (February 26, 2014)
• The American Home Front, 1941-1942 by Alistair Cooke (March 26, 2014)
• The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho (April 23, 2014)
• Great Plains by Ian Frazier (May 28, 2014)
• A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople by Patrick Fermor (June 25, 2014)
• Among the Islands by Tim Flannery (July 23, 2014)
• Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner (August 27, 2014)
• No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo by Redmond O'Hanlon (September 24, 2014)
• Salaam Brick Lane by Tarquin Hall (October 22, 2014)
• Motoring with Mohammed by Eric Hansen (November 25, 2014)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (December 23, 2014)

2013

• The 8:55 to Baghdad: from London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie by Andrew Eames (January 23, 2013)
• Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas by Matthew O'Brien (February 27, 2013)
• Frost on my Moustache: the Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer by Tim Moore (March 27, 2013)
• Jupiter's Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph by Ted Simon (April 24, 2013)
• My Mercedes is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara by Jeroen van Bergeijk (May 22, 2013)
• Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban (June 26, 2013)
• A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby (July 24, 2013)
• The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin (August 28, 2013)
• Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge by John Gimlette (September 25, 2013)
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (October 23, 2013)
• The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior by Tepilit Ole Saitoti (November 27, 2013)
• Along the Ganges by Ilija Trojanow (December 18, 2013)

2012

• Blue Highways: a Journey Into America by William Least Heat Moon (January 25, 2012)
• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (February 22, 2012)
• The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (March 28, 2012)
• Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood At the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namy (April 25, 2012)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (May 23, 2012)
• Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill (June 27, 2012)
• Roughing It by Mark Twain (July 25, 2012)
• Stranger In the Forest by Eric Hansen (August 22, 2012)
• The Long Walk: the True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz (September 26, 2012)
• The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal (October 24, 2012)
• The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth (November 28, 2012)
• Travels With Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn (December 19, 2012)

2011

• The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle (January 26, 2011)
• A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen by Freya Stark (February 23, 2011)
• Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey (March 23, 2011)
• A Sky So Close (April 27, 2011)
• Gone to New York: Adventures in the City by Ian Frazier (May 25, 2011)
• In Siberia (June 22, 2011)
• Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd (July 27, 2011)
• Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney (August 24, 3011)
• Baghdad Without a Map, and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz
• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall (October 26, 2011)
• Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian (November 23, 2011)
• Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa (December 28, 2011)

2010

• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (January 27, 2010)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (February 24, 2010)
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (March 24, 2010)
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (April 28, 2010)
• Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje (May 26, 2010)
• The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher (June 23, 2010)
• Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach (July 28, 2010)
• Mardi Gras In The Moment by Jason Bentsman (August 25, 2010)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (September 29, 2010)
• Coming Into the Country by John McPhee (October 27, 2010)
• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (November 24, 2010)
• The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy (December 22, 2010)

2009

• A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (March 25, 2009)
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes (May 27, 2009)
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (July 22, 2009)
• Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald (September 23, 2009)
• On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel by Tony Cohan (November 24, 2009)