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Some books tell you where to go. This one reminds you why you travel. ✨

In The Way of Wanderlust, legendary travel writer Don George brings together stories from a lifetime spent exploring the world — following curiosity, meeting people, getting lost, and discovering the unexpected pleasures that make travel memorable.

It’s less about checking places off a list and more about approaching the world with openness and wonder. If you love the idea of traveling more deeply, this one belongs on your shelf.

Discover The Way of Wanderlust and more of our favorite travel writing collections at Travelreads.

@don_george_travel
#Travelreads #TravelBooks #TravelWriting #Wanderlust #travelblogger #ReadTheWorld by @exploretravelreads

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One of the things we love most about Travelreads is discovering wonderful books that deserve a little more attention. Sofas and Strangers by Ingrid Hedman is exactly that kind of book. ✨

Together with her son and photographer Ylva Bergman, Ingrid sets off on a train journey through Eastern Europe, staying with local hosts along the way.

The real stars of the book are the people they stay with. Through their stories, homes, and generosity, we get a wonderfully personal glimpse into the places they visit. It's a charming, often funny reminder that some of the best travel experiences come from the people we meet along the way.

A lovely discovery, and one we're very happy to share.

www.sofasandstrangers.com
@sofasandstrangers by @exploretravelreads

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A building more than half a mile high. Think about that for a second.

In 1885, Chicago’s 138-foot Home Insurance Building was a sensation — a radically new kind of building that showed cities could begin to grow upward instead of simply outward.

Then engineers kept figuring out how to go higher.

Steel frames became stronger. Elevators became faster and safer. Foundations went deeper. Buildings learned to withstand wind, sway and enormous forces at heights earlier generations could barely have imagined. A few hundred feet became 1,000. Then 1,500. Then 2,000. And today, the Burj Khalifa rises 2,717 feet, more than half a mile into the sky.

It’s easy to become accustomed to skyscrapers. But every once in a while, they’re worth looking at with fresh eyes.

Our latest Travelreads story explores the wonder of the skyscraper — and the extraordinary engineering, imagination and ambition that allowed us to keep building higher.

Read more at Travelreads.com.

#Travelreads #Skyscrapers #VisitDubai #TravelInspiration #Wonder #BurjKhalifa by @exploretravelreads

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A new Japan travel book worth knowing about. 🇯🇵

Journey Across Japan by Chris Broad (Bantam/Penguin) is out now. Part travel guide, part collection of stories from the road, it takes readers through all 47 prefectures with practical recommendations, hard-learned lessons, and adventures ranging from flying over an active volcano to sleeping in a mountaintop temple.

Broad is best known for Abroad in Japan, and this new book goes even further into the places, food, traditions, and unexpected corners of the country that most travelers never get to see.

Planning a trip to Japan — or just want to read your way there first?
Explore more books about Japan at Travelreads.com.

@abroadinjapan
#travelreads #traveljapan #japantravel #abroadinjapan by @exploretravelreads

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The stories that make the past feel real.

Historical novels give the past a human face. We meet people living through change: families trying to hold together, young people imagining a different future, communities tested by war, ambition, or upheaval. These are three of Travelreads’ top recommendations for historical fiction, selected for their vivid settings and the lives they bring into focus.

A little plot twist: your next reading escape comes with 15% off. Explore Travelreads’ handpicked travel novels at Bookshop.
Use code Books15 at checkout for 15% off list prices on books in the submitted Travelreads travel novels list. Valid through October 17, 2026; U.S. customers only; ebooks excluded.

Purchases through Travelreads’ Bookshop affiliate link support independent bookstores.

#TravelNovels #Travelreads #Bookshop #ReadTheWorld #TravelFiction by @exploretravelreads

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10 days ago

The Moomins may appear everywhere in Finland, but beneath the lovely mugs, toys and souvenirs are some wonderfully strange and imaginative stories. Tove Jansson filled Moominvalley with forests and islands, storms and long winters, unexpected visitors and journeys into the unknown.

There’s an unexpected connection between those stories and Helsinki’s remarkable Oodi library.

One creates space for curiosity through architecture. The other does it through stories.

Read more at Travelreads.com. Link in bio.

@tovejanssonofficial by @exploretravelreads

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Some places have a story of their own.

In place-driven novels, setting shapes the whole human experience: a marsh can be both refuge and isolation; an immigrant neighborhood can hold a family’s history; a town can seem to grow and remember alongside its people. These are three of Travelreads’ top recommendations for travel novels where place shapes what characters endure, desire, and call home.

A little plot twist: your next reading escape comes with 15% off. Explore Travelreads’ handpicked travel novels at Bookshop.
Use code Books15 at checkout for 15% off list prices on books in the submitted Travelreads travel novels list. Valid through October 17, 2026; U.S. customers only; ebooks excluded.

Purchases through Travelreads’ Bookshop affiliate link support independent bookstores.

#TravelNovels #Travelreads #Bookshop #ReadTheWorld #TravelFiction by @exploretravelreads

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✨ Reading Italy: 𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑵𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒔

In 𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑠, British writer Tim Parks draws on nearly a decade spent living in a four-apartment building on a narrow street outside Verona. He introduces the eccentric residents, domestic intrigues, condominium disputes, family relationships, and unwritten social rules that gradually turn an unfamiliar place into home. With humor and an outsider’s sharp eye, Parks captures the revealing details of everyday Italian life that a visitor might easily miss.

Read why 𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑠 is featured in our latest essay on Italy’s beloved passeggiata tradition. by @exploretravelreads

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The story is often the journey.

There’s a particular beauty in watching a journey unfold: the landscape changes, the way forward is uncertain, and new choices arise along the way. Some journeys are chosen; others are forced upon us. These are three of Travelreads’ top recommendations for novels built around a journey, each offering a different answer to where the road might lead.

A little plot twist: your next reading escape comes with 15% off. Explore Travelreads’ handpicked travel novels at Bookshop.
Use code Books15 at checkout for 15% off list prices on books in the submitted Travelreads travel novels list. Valid through October 17, 2026; U.S. customers only; ebooks excluded.

Purchases through Travelreads’ Bookshop affiliate link support independent bookstores.

#TravelNovels #Travelreads #Bookshop #ReadTheWorld #TravelFiction by @exploretravelreads

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14 days ago

One of our favorite travel traditions is back: Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel. ✨

The 2027 edition brings together 25 destinations and 25 experiences for the year ahead, mixing emerging places with fresh ways to experience familiar ones. It also includes practical advice on when to go, how to plan, and what makes each choice worth the trip.

It may only be September, but why not start dreaming about 2027 now? Explore Best in Travel 2027 and discover more of our favorite Lonely Planet books at Travelreads.com.

#Travelreads #travelbookstore #travelbookshop #TravelBooks #TravelInspiration by @exploretravelreads

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Want to understand Mexico City? Start by reading it. 💛

These four amazing books approach the city from very different directions — through food, kitchens, neighborhoods, architecture, art and design.

1. CDMX: The Food of Mexico City — explores the markets, street food and everyday dishes that help define the city.
2. My Mexico City Kitchen — brings Gabriela Cámara’s approach to Mexican cooking into the home.
3. Mexico City: The Extraordinary Guide — looks beyond the obvious sights to the neighborhoods and unexpected places that give the city its character.
4. Assouline’s Mexico City — captures the city’s unmistakable visual energy through its architecture, interiors, food and culture.

Read more in our latest Travelreads essay, Reading Mexico City Through Food.

#MexicoCity #CDMX #TravelBooks #LiteraryTravel #TravelBlogger #ReadTheWorld by @exploretravelreads

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Who knows the translation? 🇯🇵 Image of a pink bookmark with the words Japan and the Japanese symbol for cherry blossoms by @exploretravelreads

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