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Books like The Accidental Tourist

Loved The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from travel, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    A Walk in the Woods

    Bill Bryson · 1998 · Travel

    Two unfit friends attempt the Appalachian Trail; very funny, with real love for wild places.

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    Abroad

    Paul Fussell · 1980 · Travel

    A eulogy for the lost art of traveling and an evaluation of the British writers who authored travel books.

  3. 3

    The travel writer's handbook

    Louise Purwin Zobel · 1980 · Travel

    "Comprehensive guide to writing, researching, publishing, and marketing articles, stories and books about travel. Includes travel tips and advice for the writer" - - Provided by the Publisher.

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    Neither here nor there

    Bill Bryson · 1991 · Travel

    Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later.Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously accl

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    Letters from Rifka

    Karen Hesse · 1992 · Travel

    Daunting tale of a Jewish girl's journey during Anti-Semitic Germany.

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    A Time of Gifts

    Patrick Leigh Fermor · 1977 · Travel

    Leigh Fermor walked from London to Budapest when he was 18. Sometimes called England's greatest travel writer.

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    The Seduction of the Mediterranean

    Robert Aldrich · 1993 · Travel

    Through an examination of forty figures in European culture, The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing a

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    Notes from a Small Island

    Bill Bryson · 1995 · Travel

    An American's affectionate, exasperated farewell tour of Britain; warm comic travel writing.

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    The Great Railway Bazaar

    Paul Theroux · 1975 · Travel

    A four-month rail journey across Asia; the book that revived modern travel writing.

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    Edith Wharton abroad

    Edith Wharton · 1995 · Travel

    Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called "brilliantly written and permanently interesting." For the first time, excerpts from each of these works have been made available to the general

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