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Biographies

Autobiographies

Literary


Life on the Mississippi
(1883)
by Mark Twain

Down and Out in Paris and London
(1933)
by George Orwell

Wind, Sand and Stars
(1939)
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Speak, Memory
(1951)
by Vladimir Nabokov

A Moveable Feast
(1964)
by Ernest Hemingway
More Literary Autobiographies
Diary (1010) of Lady Murasaki
Memoirs of My Life (1793) by Edward Gibbon
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey
Six Records of a Floating Life (1825) by Shen Fu
The Life of Henry Brulard (1836) by Stendhal
Ecce Homo (1888) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Pages From the Goncourt Journals (1896) by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
A Country Doctor's Notebook (1918) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Storm of Steel (1920) by Ernst Jünger
Diaries (1923) of Franz Kafka
Safe Conduct (1931) by Boris Pasternak
My Life and Hard Times (1933) by James Thurber
The Autobiography (1936) of G.K. Chesterton
Something of Myself (1937) by Rudyard Kipling
Homage to Catalonia (1938) by George Orwell
The Autobiography (1938) of William Butler Yeats
A Journey Round My Skull (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy
If This Is a Man (1947) by Primo Levi
Sisters by a River (1947) by Barbara Comyns
Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948 (1948) by Sandor Marai
On Overgrown Paths (1949) by Knut Hamsun
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951) by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
The Autobiography (1951) of William Carlos Williams
Childhood Years: A Memoir (1956) by Junichiro Tanizaki
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography (1964) by Evelyn Waugh
My Father and Myself (1968) by J.R. Ackerley
Diaries (1968) of Witold Gombrowicz
My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 (1973) by Harry Mathews
My Days (1974) by R.K. Narayan
Condundrum (1974) by Jan Morris
The Periodic Table (1975) by Primo Levi
Going Solo (1986) by Roald Dahl
Prisoner of Love (1986) by Jean Genet
My Life (1987) by Lyn Hejinian
The Great Fire of London (1989) by Jacques Roubaud
I, Asimov: A Memoir (1994) by Isaac Asimov
Living to Tell the Tale (2002) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007) by Haruki Murakami
Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan (2008) by Donald Keene
My Struggle (2009) by Karl Ove Knausgård
Autobiography (2013) by Morrissey

Historical


The Pillow Book
(1002)
by Sei Shonagon

The Autobiography
(1790)
of Benjamin Franklin

Goodbye to All That
(1929)
by Robert Graves

The Autobiography
(1965)
of Malcolm X

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
(1985)
by Richard Feynman
More Historical Autobiographies
Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (974) by Mother of Michitsuna
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (11th Century) by Lady Sarashina
The Confessions (1307) of Lady Nijo
The Baburnama: Memoirs (1530) of Babur
The Autobiography (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini
The Book of My Life (1576) by Girolamo Cardano
The Diary (1669) of Samuel Pepys
The Journal (1694) of George Fox
Story of My Life (1774) by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
The Memoirs (1795) of Catherine the Great
Narrative of the Life (1845) of Frederick Douglass
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (1850) of Katsu Kokichi
The Autobiography (1886) of William Tecumseh Sherman
Personal Memoirs (1886) of Ulysses S. Grant
The Autobiography (1887) of Charles Darwin
The Autobiography (1899) of Yukichi Fukuzawa
The Letters (1891) by Vincent van Gogh
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1902) by Daniel Paul Schreber
The Story of My Life (1903) by Helen Keller
My Childhood (1914) by Maxim Gorky
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) by T.E. Lawrence
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) by Siegfried Sassoon
The Secret Life (1942) of Salvador Dali
The Diary of a Young Girl (1944) by Anne Frank
Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin (1953) by Felix Yusupov
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (1954) by Frida Kahlo
Cider with Rosie (1959) by Laurie Lee
Norman Rockwell (1960) by Norman Rockwell
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) by Carl Jung
The Double Helix (1968) by James D. Watson
Daybook: The Journey of an Artist (1982) by Anne Truitt
Naturalist (1994) by Edward O. Wilson
An Unquiet Mind (1995) by Kay Redfield Jamison
Mr Nice (1996) by Howard Marks
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001) by Oliver Sacks
Geisha: A Life (2002) by Mineko Iwasaki

Books About Books

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Business


The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham

Security Analysis 5th Edition
by Graham and Dodd

A Random Walk Down Wall Street
by Burton G. Malkiel

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
by Jack Bogle

Irrational Exuberance
by Robert J. Shiller
More Business Books
One Up on Wall Street (1989) by Peter Lynch
Beat the Street (2005) by Peter Lynch
Stocks for the Long Run 5th edition (1994) by Jeremy Sigel
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958) by Philip A. Fisher

Essays

Classic Essays


Essays in Idleness
(1332)
by Yoshida Kenko

The Anatomy of Melancholy
(1621)
by Robert Burton

The Painter of Modern Life
(1863)
by Charles Baudelaire

The Complete Essays
by Mark Twain

In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays
by G.K. Chesterton
Further Classic Essays
Essays (1597) by Francis Bacon
The Complete Essays (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
Selected Essays (1750s) by Samuel Johnson
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays (19th Century) by Charles Lamb
Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
The Essential Writings ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (1891) by Oscar Wilde
Essays (1918) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Modern Essays (English Language)


A Collection of Essays
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by George Orwell

Geography of the Imagination
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by Guy Davenport

We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live
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by Joan Didion

The Portable Dorothy Parker
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by Dorothy Parker

An Elemental Thing
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by Eliot Weinberger
Further Modern Essays (English Language)
Early and Later Essays ( ) by W.B. Yeats
Selected Essays ( ) by Virginia Woolf
Selected Essays ( ) by T.S. Eliot
Selected Essays ( ) by D.H. Lawrence
Kokoro ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn
Essays ( ) by E.B. White
Against Interpretation and Other Essays ( ) by Susan Sontag
Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry ( ) by John Simon
Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience ( ) by Aldous Huxley
Mystery and Manners ( ) by Flannery O'Connor
Literary Essays ( ) by Ezra Pound
In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays ( ) by Anais Nin
Portraits and Observations: The Essays ( ) by Truman Capote
The Best of Myles ( ) by Flann O'Brien
A Jacques Barzun Reader ( ) by Jacques Barzun
Reflections on Exile ( ) by Edward W. Said
The Vintage Mencken ( ) by H.L. Mencken
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism ( ) by John Updike
Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings ( ) by Angela Carter
Fame & Folly: Essays ( ) by Cynthia Ozick
The Donald Richie Reader ( ) by Donald Richie
Dreamer of Dreams ( ) by John Simon
On Histories and Stories ( ) by A.S. Byatt
Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings ( ) by John Fowles
Finding a Form ( ) by William H. Gass
An Elemental Thing ( ) by Eliot Weinberger

Modern Essays (non-English Language)


Selected Non-Fictions
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by Jorge Luis Borges

A Barthes Reader
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by Roland Barthes

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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by Italo Calvino

Less Than One: Selected Essays
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by Joseph Brodsky

Campo Santo
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by W.G. Sebald
Further Modern Essays (non-English Language)
Visions of Excess ( ) by Georges Bataille
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces ( ) by Georges Perec
Leters, Numbers, Forms: Essays ( ) by Raymond Queneau
Selected Essays ( ) by Zhou Zuoren
Selected Bilingual Essays ( ) by Lin Yutang
Illuminations: Essays ( ) by Walter Benjamin
The Selected Prose ( ) by Fernando Pessoa
Myself With Others: Essays ( ) by Carlos Fuentes
The Labyrinth of Solitude ( ) by Octavio Paz
The Spirit of Prague ( ) by Ivan Klima
Encounter: Essays ( ) by Milan Kundera
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays ( ) by Umberto Eco
Anathemas and Admiraitions ( ) by E.M. Cioran
Passing By: Selected Essays ( ) by Jerzy Kosinski
Other People's Trades ( ) by Primo Levi
Nobody's Home ( ) by Dubravka Ugresic
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Film


Sculpting in Time
by Andrey Tarkovsky

The Elements of Cinema
by Stefan Sharff

A History of Narrative Film
by David A. Cook

The Filmmaker's Eye
by Gustavo Mercado

In the Blink of an Eye
by Walter Murch
More Film Books
Documentary by Eric Barnow
Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
Fatalism in American Film Noir by Robert Pippin
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth by Robert Pippin
Notes on Cinematography by Robert Bresson
Images by Ingmar Bergman
What is Cinema? by Andre Bazin
Cinema by Alain Badiou
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image by Giles Deleuze
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General Non-Fiction

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The God Delusion ( ) by Richard Dawkins
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History


Histories
(450-420s BCE)
by Herodotus

History of the Peloponnesian War
(430s-410s BCE)
by Thucydides
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Hellenica
(410s-360s BCE)
by Xenophon
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Egypt
An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt by Kathryn Bard
Ancient Egyptian Literature vol. 1, 2 & 3 by Miriam Lichtheim
Village Life in Ancient Egypt by A.G. MacDowell
Celts
The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe
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Greece
Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History by Pomeroy, Burstein et al
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
The Greek City States by P. J. Rhodes
Polis: An Introduction to the Greek City State by Mogens Herman Hansen
The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest by Michel M. Austin
The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox
The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 3.3 through 7.1
Rome
The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 7 through 14
Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome (series)
Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf
Rome: From Village to Empire by Boatwright, Gargola et al
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
From the Gracchi to Nero by H.H. Scullard
The Later Roman Empire 284-602 AD by A. H. M. Jones
The Decline of the Ancient World by A. H. M. Jones
The Cambridge Medieval History vol. 1, 2, 4.1 and 4.2
New Cambridge Medieval History
China
Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2 by William Theodore de Bary
Records of the Grand Historian: Qin and Han Dynasties by Sima Qian
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence
Buddhism in Chinese History by Arthur Wright
Japan
Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2 by William Theodore de Bary
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon
The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen
USSR
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934 by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Philosophy

Heraclitus Socrates Plato Aristotle Seneca
Pre-Socratics Early Greek Philosophy by Various
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library by Kenneth Sylvan Guthre
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus by Charles H. Kahn
Fragments by Parmenides of Elea
Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments by David Gallop
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon and Tania Gergel
The Extant Fragments by Empedocles
On Socrates The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue by Charles H. Kahn
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper
Plato on Knowledge and Forms by Gail Fine
On Aristotle Aristotle on Nature and Living Things by David M. Balme
Aristotle by Cristopher Shields
From Aristotle to Augustine by David Furley
By Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Metaphysics by Aristotle
Poetics by Aristotle
Rhetoric by Aristotle
Politics by Aristotle
Cynicism Diogenes of Sinope: A Study of Greek Cynicism by Farrand Sayre
The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé
Epicureanism The Cambridge's Companion to Epicureanism by James Warren
The Essential Epicurus by Eugene O'Connor
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
Stoicism Letters From a Stoic ( ) by Seneca
Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
Meditations ( ) by Marcus Aurelius
Skepticism The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus by Norman Maccoll
Outlines of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus
Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ( ) by Richard T. Wallis
The Neoplatonists ( ) by John Gregory
The Enneads ( ) by Plotinus
Ancient Western Christian and Medieval Modern Part One Modern Part Two Scientific Revolution
German Idealism Existentialism Analytic Part One Analytic Part Two Postmodernism
Feminism and Queer Theory Existential Crisis: A Guide

Politics

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Politics
The New Machiavelli (1910) by H.G. Wells
From Politics to Reason of State: The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 1250-1600 by Maurizio Viroli
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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) by Emma Goldman
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Political History
Democracy in America (1831) by Alexis de Tocqueville
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Religion and Occult

Western Religion


Torah
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by Moshe Rabbenu (Moses Our Teacher/Rabbi)

The Bible
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Western Occult Esoteric/Occult/Magick Reading Hermeticism Catholicism Christianity

Eastern Religion


Upanishads

Daodejing
by Laozi, trans. by Edmund Ryden

Moon on a Dewdrop
by Dogen

Heart Sutra
trans. by Red Pine

The Analects
of Confucius, trans. Raymond Dawson
Primary Texts Transmission of Light ( ) by Zen Master Keizan
Lankavatara Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine
Diamond Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine
Dhammapada ( ) trans. by Gil Fronsdal
The Bhagavad Gita ( ) trans. by Eknath Easwaran
Basic Writings ( ) of Zhuangzi
Basic Writings ( ) of Xunzi
Writings ( ) of Mencius
Literature, Poetry, etc The Aleph and Other Stories ( ) by Jorge Luis Borges
All About H. Hatter ( ) by G.V. Desani
The Conference of the Birds (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar
The Rubaiyat (12th century) of Omar Khayyam
Secondary & Tertiary Resources Fifty Eastern Thinkers ( ) by Diane Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson
Selected Writings ( ) of Meister Eckhart
The Self-Disclosure of God ( ) by William C. Chittick
The Gospel in Brief ( ) by Leo Tolstoy
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings ( ) by D.T. Suzuki
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Mysticism Islam Buddhism

Travel Literature

General Travels


The Travels
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by Ibn Battutah

The Journals
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of Captain James Cook

Collected Travel Writing
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by Evelyn Waugh

Travels With Herodotus
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by Ryszard Kapuscinsk

The Way of the World
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by Nicolas Bouvier
More General Travels
From the Meadows of Gold ( ) by Mas'udi
Voyages and Discoveries ( ) by Richard Hakluyt
South: The Endurance Expedition ( ) by Ernest Shackleton
The Last Grain Race ( ) by Eric Newby
Pecked to Death by Ducks ( ) by Tim Cahill
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It ( ) by Geoff Dyer

Travels in Europe


Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness
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by Ibn Fadlan

The Innocents Abroad
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by Mark Twain

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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by Rebecca West

A Time of Gifts
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by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Rings of Saturn
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by W.G. Sebald
More Travels in Europe
Guide to Greece (2nd century) by Pausanias
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland ( ) by Samuel Johnson
A Sentimental Journey ( ) by Laurence Sterne
Letters from England ( ) by Voltaire
Italian Journey: 1786:1788 (1788) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Travel Pictures ( ) by Heinrich Heine
Letters from Russia ( ) by Adolphe de Custine
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions ( ) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sakhalin Island ( ) by Anton Chekhov
D.H. Lawrence and Italy ( ) by D.H. Lawrence
Mani: Travels in the Souther Peloponnese ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Silent Traveler in London ( ) by Chiang Lee
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth ( ) by Tim Robinson
The Colossus of Maroussi ( ) by Henry Miller
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere ( ) by Jan Morris
In Siberia ( ) by Colin Thubron
Fado ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk

Travels in Asia


The Travels
(13th century)
of Marco Polo

Narrow Road to the Deep North
(1689)
by Matsuo Basho

Seven Years in Tibet
(1951)
by Heinrich Harrer

Arabian Sands
(1959)
by Wilfred Thesiger

The Snow Leopard
1978)
by Peter Matthiessen
More Travels in Asia
The Travels ( ) of Sir John Mandeville
An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels ( ) by Evliya Celebi
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan ( ) by Isabella L. Bird
The Malay Archipelago ( ) by Alfred Russel Wallace
A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina ( ) by Richard Burton
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn
The Southern Gates of Arabia ( ) by Freya Stark
A Time to Keep Silence ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Barbarian in Asia ( ) by Henri Michaux
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China ( ) by David Kidd
Hindoo Holiday ( ) by J.R. Ackerley
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush ( ) by Eric Newby
The Inland Sea ( ) by Donald Richie
The Lost Heart of Asia ( ) by Colin Thubron
Riding the Iron Rooster ( ) by Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar ( ) by Paul Theroux
City of Djinns ( ) by William Dalrymple
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963) by Paul Bowles

Travels in Africa


Travels in West Africa
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by Mary Kingsley

Out of Africa
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by Isak Dinesen

Green Hills of Africa
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by Ernest Hemingway

Journey Without Maps
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by Graham Greene

The Voices of Marrakesh
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by Elias Canetti
More Travels in Africa
Travels in the Interior of Africa ( ) by Mungo Park
Source of the Nile ( ) by Richard Burton
The Naturalist on the River Amazons ( ) by Henry Walter Bates
Travels in the Congo ( ) by Andre Gide
North of South ( ) by Shiva Naipaul
African Laughter ( ) by Doris Lessing

Travels in the Americas


Travels in Alaska
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by John Muir

Travels With Charley: In Search of America
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by John Steinbeck

Kon-Tiki
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by Thor Keyerdahl

In Patagonia
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by Bruce Chatwin

An African in Greenland
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by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
More Travels in the Americas
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition ( ) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America ( ) by Alexander von Humboldt
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil ( ) by Jean de Lery
The Journals ( ) of Lewis and Clark
The Oregon Trail ( ) by Francis Parkman
American Notes for General Circulation ( ) by Charles Dickens
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ( ) by Henry David Thoreau
Roughing It ( ) by Mark Twain
Two Years in the French West Indies ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn
Kabloona ( ) by Gontran de Poncins
Here is New York ( ) by E.B. White
The Lawless Roads ( ) by Graham Greene
I See by My Outfit ( ) by Peter S. Beagle
Coming in to the Country ( ) by John McPhee
Into the Wild ( ) by Bill Bryson
A Turn in the South ( ) by V.S. Naipaul
The Old Patagonian Express ( ) by Paul Theroux
The River Of Doubt ( ) by Candice Millard

Travel Anthologies


A Book of Traveler's Tales
edited by Eric Newby

Colonial American Travel Narratives

Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany

Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travelers

Americans in Paris
More Travel Anthologies
Travel Writing 1700-1830
Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
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