TTT: Books That Involve Travel

Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Involve Travel

Trying to keep up with my resolve to only list books I've read, this list may contain some unlikely suspects. Let me explain....

1. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad -- After two and a half years of battling cancer the author plans a road trip to visit some of the people whose letters gave her hope and sustenance while she was sick. The trip was over 10,000 miles long. (Memoir, 2021)

2. The Not Quote States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack. Mack visits all US Territories: Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Marianas Island and reports what life is like in these territories. (Nonfiction, 2017)

3. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks. Brooks travels from her home in Massachusetts to a small island off the coast of Australia where she stays to do the grief work she needs to do after the death of her husband. (Memoir, 2025)

4. The Ministry of Time by Kalianne Bradley. Characters are retrieved from history and brought to the present day (which is our future.) They didn't choose the travel. Big time adjustments were needed when they were plucked from their time. (Science Fiction. 2024)

5. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty. The Optimist's daughter, Laurel, travels from her home in Chicago to her childhood home in Mount Salus, Mississippi via New Orleans. She is there to tend to her father's affairs after his death. (Literary fiction, 1972)

6. The Book of Doors by Garth Brown. The holder of the book of doors can time travel from one door to another anywhere in the world or in time. (Science Fiction, 2024)

7. Orbital by Samantha Harvey. The travelers in this novel are in the International Space Station orbiting the earth 16 times a day. (Fiction, 2023)

8. The Great Divide by Cristina Hernandez. Characters travel from all over the world to help build the Panama Canal. Two of those characters featured in the story travel are from Barbatos and from Kansas. (Fiction, 2024)

9. The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright. Nell McDaragh must leave her home in Ireland and travel the world in order to find herself. (Literary fiction, 2023)

10.  West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. Two giraffes are transported by truck across the country from New York harbor to San Diego, California. It is the 1930s and the Great Depression and this is no easy task to transport these tall animals by truck. Based on actual events. (Fiction, 2021)

-Anne