The Geography of Bliss by Eric    WeinerBlue Latitudes by Tony HorwitzIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonTerra Incognita by Sara WheelerInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Favorite Travel Books
2,045 books — 3,948 voters
The Geography of Bliss by Eric    WeinerTerra Incognita by Sara WheelerDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,167 books — 1,892 voters

What Is the What by Dave EggersThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne SeierstadIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Geography of Bliss by Eric    WeinerThe Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,215 books — 28,370 voters
Annapurna by Maurice HerzogBlue Latitudes by Tony HorwitzThe Long Walk by Slavomir RawiczEiger Dreams by Jon KrakauerThe Places in Between by Rory Stewart
Tales of Adventure
516 books — 477 voters

Breaking Clean by Judy BluntLazy B by Sandra Day O'ConnorGorillas in the Mist by Dian FosseyWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamSwimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox
Memoirs by Women
3,205 books — 3,173 voters
Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyCadillac Desert by Marc ReisnerComing Into the Country by John McPheeTerra Incognita by Sara WheelerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,888 books — 49,805 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerUlysses by James JoyceThe Chiapas Rebellion by Neil HarveyThe Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Disappointing Books
2,770 books — 4,606 voters
Holy Cow by Sarah MacdonaldTravels in a Thin Country by Sara WheelerTerra Incognita by Sara WheelerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Geography of Bliss by Eric    Weiner
Foreign Lands
2,372 books — 2,203 voters

Holy Cow by Sarah MacdonaldIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonTerra Incognita by Sara WheelerComing Into the Country by John McPheeBlue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz
Have Passport Will Travel
713 books — 593 voters