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May 20, 2025


top ten books featuring travel
posted by soe 1:24 am

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share books featuring traveling. All of these earned five stars from me:

  1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows: Pen pals are so fascinated by each other that one travels from London to the Isle of Guernsey to meet the rest.
  2. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin: A young girl runs away to find the Man in the Moon
  3. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds: Is the boy in this novel in verse in the same place as the one who got on the elevator just seven flights up? I’d like to think not.
  4. 49 Days by Agnes Lee: In this sparse graphic novel, over seven weeks, a young woman must journey across unfamiliar terrain to come to terms with being dead — while her family must contend with still being in the land of the living.
  5. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis: Four siblings evacuated from London travel through a coat closet into a magical, winter-stuck land.
  6. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle: A girl, a boy from her class, her young brother, and three otherworldly beings travel to space.
  7. Exit West by Hamid Mohsin: Two refugees leave behind their Middle Eastern home and step through a door to what they hope will be a new life.
  8. Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell: A girl everyone believes to be orphaned runs away to Paris in search of the mother she remembers from her babyhood.
  9. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart: A nomadic father flees a particular moment in time with his child, but, unlike him, she wants to find her way back home to Washington state.
  10. Shark Heart by Emily Habeck: In this heartbreaking love story, a woman must drive across the country to let her husband, who has turned into a shark, go into the wild.

Do you have favorite books about a journey?

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I love Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!

Comment by Poinsettia 05.20.25 @ 8:49 am

I adored The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

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Comment by Pam @ Read! Bake! Create! 05.20.25 @ 3:13 pm

I love that people have included space and time travel in their lists this week!

I too loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society!

Comment by Marg @ The Intrepid Reader 05.20.25 @ 7:26 pm



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