This page is dedicated to reading recommendations about places to visit and travel, but also with books that I fell in love with during my travels
Condé Nast Traveller, volume 2 – Book of Unforgettable Journeys
Sam Apple – Schlepping through the Alps
Jamie Baywood – Getting Rooted in New Zealand
Monica Bhide – The Devil in Us
– A Life of Spice: Stories of food, culture and life
Monica is a magician of words and spices and her final literary meals are exquisite stories.
Vicki Boykis – There’s Something about Scotland
Daniel Bruhl – One Day in Barcelona
Raymond Carver – What we Talk when We Talk About Love
Hugh Danielle – Confession of a Hostie. See also my interview with Danielle
Charles Diehl – Promenades d’Histoire et d’Art. My inspiration for a different writing style, encompassing both cultural and history writing.
Torre de Roche – Love with a Chance of Drowning
Bruce Feiler – Learning how to Bow. Inside the Heart of Japan. The book describes the experiences and encounters of the author during his one year of teaching English in Japan. Interesting observations about the culture, history and daily life shared with the acriby of a journalist.
Judith Fein – Life is a Trip
Marc Fitten – Elza’s Kitchen
Elizabeth Gilbert – The Signature of All Things, Eat Pray Love, Last American Man, Committed
Savannah Grace – I Grew my Boobs in China; Backpacks and Bra Straps
Tony Hawks – Round Ireland with a Fridge, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
Peter Hessler – Strange Stones, journalistic stories about China and not only
Alexandra Horowitz – On Looking
Kwan Kevin – Crazy Rich Asians
Brian Lawrenson – Isfahan is half the world
Gaile Parkin – Baking Cakes in Kigali
Chris Pavone – The Expats
J.F.Penn – One Day in Budapest
Rubin Gretchen – The Happiness Project
Chris Guillebeau – The 100$ Startup
Reyes Heather Collection of Guides. Read more about on my blog
Peter Hessler – Strange stones journalistic stories from China and not only
Tim Leffel – Travel Writing 2.0
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Simon Sebag Montefiore – Jerusalem: the Biography
Tim Mackintosh Smith – Yemen. Travels in Dictionary Land
Tatiana de Rosnay – The House I Loved
Janet Charles Skeslien – Moonlight in Odessa
Robin Smith – Dairies of an Adventure Queen
Cheryl Strayed – Wild
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan – A Tiger in the Kitchen
Amy Thomas – Paris, My Sweet
Frances M. Thompson – Shy Feet, See the Amalfi Coast
Stephanie Yoder – One Year Without Make-Up
Malala Yousafzai – I am Malala
Stefan Zweig – Magellan
Helene Wecker – The Golem and the Djinni
in German
Turin, eine literarische Einladung, an interesting journey through the city, from the literary perspective
Susanne Falk – Das Wunder von Treviso
Franz Hessel – Spazieren in Berlin
Heinz Strunk – In Afrika, if not for the language improvement reasons, this books is recommended as a example of how not to write travel stories, given the ‘superior’ and kitsch attitude to anything that it is not ‘European’.
Alexandra Fröhlich – Reisen mit Russen
Anna Funder – Stasiland, storie about life in the communist Germany
Ingo Petz – Kuckuckshuhren in Baku, a German journalist lives for a couple of months in Baku
Angela Troni – Spaghetti in flagranti, love stories between Italy and Germany, which involves a lot of famiglia
Ilana on the road 