Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week we’re talking about books where travel plays a central role, so here are ten books I’ve read where a trip is crucial to the plot!
Less: This book follows a writer on a trip around the world he takes to keep his mind off a bad breakup and it is very charming and funny.
Death on the Nile: The murder at the heart of this mystery takes place on a river cruise down the Nile.
Orbital: This is about a group of astronauts, which is about as far as it is possible to travel!
Washington Black: The titular character, a slave, is plucked from a Caribbean plantation to become the companion to an explorer and makes his way to America, Canada, and England.
The Golden Compass: Lyra leaves her familiar home in Oxford and after unexpected developments, ends up in the frozen north in search of answers to questions she barely understands.
Tin Man: A sojourn in southern France is transformative for at least one Englishman.
The Left Hand of Darkness: This sci-fi classic features a man who not only has left his home world, but ends up traversing the planet on which he is serving as an envoy.
Crazy Rich Asians: Rachel only discovers that her boyfriend Nick is loaded when he takes her to Singapore, where he was born and his family still lives, to be guests at a wedding.
Enchanted Islands: An older woman finds herself with a chance at marriage and an adventure to the Galapagos Islands to boot, and she takes it.
The Moor’s Account: A Moroccan man becomes a slave in Spain, and then becomes a member of an early Spanish expedition to Florida that gets far enough afield that he sees Tenochtitlan in all its glory.
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