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Best Traveling Vicariously

2,123 books — This list was created and voted on by Goodreads members.

These are my favorite books for transporting me right to the spot! Please add yours.

1.

Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love
3.64 1,841,895 ratings 60,738 reviews

2.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
4.07 444,970 ratings 24,375 reviews

3.

Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
3.98 12,060 ratings 886 reviews

4.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
4.19 809,278 ratings 66,061 reviews

5.

Into the Wild
Into the Wild
4.02 1,190,410 ratings 33,184 reviews

6.

Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha
4.16 2,107,979 ratings 39,327 reviews

7.

Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
3.96 131,146 ratings 5,592 reviews

8.

A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns
4.45 1,730,433 ratings 92,998 reviews

9.

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
3.77 330,095 ratings 4,639 reviews

10.

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
3.81 4,069 ratings 318 reviews