{"id":13488,"date":"2026-02-17T01:28:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13488"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:16:55","slug":"top-ten-recommendations-for-armchair-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13488","title":{"rendered":"top ten recommendations for armchair travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a> is recommendations for armchair travelers:<\/p>\n

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  1. Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence\u00a0<\/em>(British couple goes on vacation, falls in love with the region, and buys a fixer upper there. Hilarious to read about, but probably not to live through.)<\/li>\n
  2. The Sun Is Also a Star<\/em> by Nicola Yoon (Girl and boy meet by chance in New York City and have an adventure.)<\/li>\n
  3. My Family and Other Animals<\/em> by Gerald Durrell (A widow moves her family to Corfu, Greece, in the late-1930s)<\/li>\n
  4. Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods<\/em> (Middle-aged man and his out-of-shape buddy embark upon a hike of the Appalachian Trail)<\/li>\n
  5. Wuthering Heights<\/em> by Emily Bront\u00eb (No matter your opinion of Cathy and Heathcliff, you can’t deny the power of the moors)<\/li>\n
  6. Gods of Jade and Shadow<\/em> by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (A teen ends up bound to the Mayan god of death and must travel around Mexico to help free him\u2014and her)<\/li>\n
  7. Evvie Drake Starts Over<\/em> by Linda Holmes (A forced proximity romance between a widow and an MLB pitcher trying to overcome the yips in a coastal town in Maine)<\/li>\n
  8. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts<\/em> by Kate Racculia (A treasure hunt through Boston)<\/li>\n
  9. All Creatures Great and Small<\/em> by James Herriot (The fictionalized adventures of a vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s)<\/li>\n
  10. Empire of Shadows<\/em> by Jacquelyn Benson (A woman finds a map to a secret city and travels to Belize to follow it)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Honestly, I feel like there are certain cities (New York, London, Paris…) that I could do individual lists for.<\/p>\n

    How about you? Are there books you’d recommend especially for the setting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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