Travel books have been written since Classical times.
Note: Listed by year of publication of the majority of the writer's notable works.
Story of Wenamun, account of his travels through the Mediterranean sea.
Anabasis - about the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II. The book then moves on to Cyrus' Greek troops travels through Asia Minor back home to Greece.
True History documents a fantastic voyage that parodies many mythical travels recounted by other authors, such as Homer; considered to be among the first works of science fiction.
Mosella (The Moselle, c. 370) describes the poet's trip to the banks of the river Moselle, then in Gaul.
De reditu suo (Concerning His Return, c. 416) the poet describes his voyage along the Mediterranean seacoast from Rome to Gaul.
Christian Topography (c. 550)
Great Tang Records on the Western Regions (646) narrative of the Buddhist monk's journey from China to India.
Wang ocheonchukguk jeon (723727/728), travelogue by Buddhist monk Hyecho, who pilgrimaged from Korea to India.
The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law (838-847)
Safarnama (c. 1046)
The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (c. 1185)
Itinerarium Cambriae (Journey Through Wales, 1191)
Mu'jam Al-Buldan (Dictionary of Countries)
Ystoria Mongalorum (c. 1240), the report of his embassy to the Great Khan on behalf of the Papacy. It is the oldest European account of the Mongols.[1]
Itinerarium fratris Willielmi de Rubruquis de ordine fratrum Minorum, Galli, Anno gratia 1253 ad partes Orientales [1]
Il Milione (1298) [1]
Letters (1305-1306)
Viaggio del beato frate odorico di porto maggiore del friuli...
The Rihla (1355) literally entitled: "A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling".[1]
Cronica Boemorum
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356),[1] an imaginary account of his travels in Asia based on a variety of true sources about the eastern countries, such as Pordenone's.
Itinerarius, a fictional account with fantastic elements and impossible geography
Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour at Samarcand AD 1403-6.[1]
His travel account was written by request of Pope Eugene IV and is included in Book IV of "De varietate fortunae" by Poggio Bracciolini.
Andanças e viajes de Pero Tafur por diversas partes del mundo avidos.[1]
A Journey Beyond the Three Seas, travel notes during his journey to India in 1466–1472.
Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486) an account of his travels to the Holy Land alongside Erhard Reuwich, an artist hired specifically to make the woodblock prints for the Peregrinatio. This book is one of the first fully illustrated pilgrims' guides in history.[2]
The Itinerary of Ludovico Di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508
Baburnama, memoirs, including his descriptions of the places he lived and/or conquered.
(1516, originally known through the testimony of Italian Giovanni Battista Ramusio)
Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo (1524).[1] An account of the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Tratado das cousas da China became the first book-length work on China in Europe; it also told about the author's experiences in Cambodia and Hormuz
Kitab-ı Bahriye(Book of Navigation), a detailed book about the Mediterranean Sea.
La Relación (1542). An account of his eight year's captivity and exploration in North America.
Peregrinação (meaning "Pilgrimage", published posthumously in 1614) memoir of his travels in the Middle and Far East, Ethiopia, Arabian Sea, India and Japan, as one of the first Europeans to reach it in 1542.
Navigationi et Viaggi ("Navigations and Travels") (1555-1559);[3] a large collection of explorers' first-hand accounts of their travels around the world, the first one of its kind.
Os Lusíadas (1572)
The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589) a foundational text of the travel literature genre.[1]
Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries) about his voyage to India
The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, which went with Master Thomas Candish in his Second Voyage to the South Sea (1591)
Itinerario (1596), published in English as Discours of Voyages into Y East & West Indies (1598)
Des Sauvages: ou voyage de Samuel Champlain, de Brouages, faite en la France nouvelle l'an 1603 (1604)
Brief Discours des Choses plus remarquables que Sammuel Champlain de Brouage a reconneues aux Indes Occidentalles au voiage qu'il en a faict en icettes en l'année 1599 et en l'année 1601, comme ensuite
Voyages de la Nouvelle France (1632
Traitté de la marine et du devoir d'un bon marinier (1632)
Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages, (1613) [1]
Purchas, his Pilgrim. Microcosmus, or the historie of Man. Relating the wonders of his Generation, vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of his Regeneration, (1619)
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells, by Englishmen and others (4 vols.), (1625).[1]
Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels (1611) [1]
History of Ethiopia (1620), includes the first account of one of the sources of the Nile River ever written by a European.
Reise Nach Den Molukken Und Vorder-Indien, 1632–1646 (Travel to the Moluccas and the Middle East Indies, 1632–1646) (1646)
Les voyages et observations du sieur de La Boullaye Le gouz (1653 & 1657) one of the first true travel books.
A Voyage to East-India (1655)
The travels of Signor Pietro Della Valle, a Noble Roman, into East India and Arabia deserts... [1]
Itinerário.[1] This book was translated by Samuel Johnson in 1723 and inspired his own work The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
Travels in the Mogul Empire (1671) [1]
Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1675) [1]
The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient (edited bit by bit between 1686 and 1711).[1]
Nozarashi Kikō (Records of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton) (1684)
Kashima Kiko (A Visit to Kashima Shrine) (1687)
Oi no Kobumi, or Utatsu Kiko (Record of a Travel-Worn Satchel) (1688)
Sarashina Kiko (A Visit to Sarashina Village) (1688)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (trans. 1967)
Beschreibung der muscowitischen und persischen Reise (1647)
A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea (1723), a book that inspired The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge.
A Description of the East and Some other Countries
"A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727, an account of Defoe's tours, or circuits, throughout England, Wales, and Scotland, with a focus on the social and cultural landscape as well as the geographic.
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735, a satiric parody of the genre)
Journal du voyage fait à l'Equateur servant d'introduction historique à la Mesure des trois premiers degrés du Méridien (1751) [1]
Relación histórica del viage a la América Meridional (1748)
Turkish Embassy Letters letters describing her life as an ambassador's wife in Turkey, important as one of the earliest discussions of the Muslim world by a woman
Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie (1755), contains the first drawings of ancient Egyptian monuments.
"Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon" (1755)
Travels through France and Italy (1766)[4]
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
Le voyage autour du monde, par la frégate La Boudeuse, et la flûte L'Étoile (1772),[1] a book about his circumnavigation, famous at its time for his description of Tahiti as an paradisiac utopia. It also inspired Diderot's Supplément au voyage de Bougainville.
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) the lexicographer and his friend James Boswell (1740 - 1795) visit Scotland in 1773.
"An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli" (1768) the earliest piece of literature about the Grand Tour.
"The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D" (1785) a travel journal by Boswell about his trip with Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) to Scotland in 1773.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790) where he claims to have been the first European to discover the source of the Blue Nile, despite previous accounts by Paez and Lobo mentioned above.[1]
Varthamanappusthakam (1790) one of the earliest travelogues in an Indian language
Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789 record of Jefferson's travels in France, Holland, Germany and Italy, included in his Complete Works with selected portions in various collections of his writings.
A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 (1795)
A Short Residence in Sweden (1796)
Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)[1]
Tokaidochu Hizakurige (The Shank's Mare) one of the most famous of the Edo period michiyuki (journey) novels.
Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 (1801)
Spaziergang nach Syrakus (1803)
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (finished and first circulated in 1803; first published in 1874)
Letters on Silesia: Written During a Tour Through That Country in the Years 1800, 1801 (1804)
A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World; many of which are now first translated into English. (1808-1814, in 17 volumes)
Italienische Reise (1816–1817)
Viajes de Ali Bey
Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c., during the years 1812 and 1813 (1815)
Rome, Naples et Florence (1817)[5]
History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817)
Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843 (1844)
Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland (1836)
Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (1836)
Gleanings in Europe: England (1837)
Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (1838)
Reisebilder (1826–33)
Harzreise (1853)
Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)
The Alhambra : a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards (1832)
Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque, during four-and-twenty years in the East with revelations of life in the zenana, 2 vols (1850)
Begums, Thugs & Englishmen, the journals of Fanny Parkes (2002)
A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia and Palestine in 1845–6 (1846)
Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838)
Promenades in London (1840)
Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz ("An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)", 1834)
Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (1862 - 1889)
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician (1846)
Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, forming the Completion of her Memoirs narrated by her Physician (1847)
The Bible in Spain (1843)
Wild Wales (1862)
Roughing it in the Bush (1852)
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa and the Holy Land (1837)
Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland (1838)
Incidents of Travel in Central American, Chiapas and Yucatán (1841)
Incidents of Travel in Yucatán (1843)
Journey to America (1831–1832)
A South-Side View of Slavery (1854)
The Improvisatore (1835)
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
Eothen (1844)
American Notes (1842)
Pictures from Italy (1844–1845)
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846)
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) chronicles of Melville's experiences as a sailor in Polynesia.
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (publ.1972) letters
The Malay Archipelago describes eight years exploring Indonesia and other islands
The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863) describes 11 years in the Amazon rainforest
("My Travels: The Story of The 1857 Mutiny", 1907), description of his experiences of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 during his travels in North India
Station Life in New Zealand (1870)
A Year's Housekeeping in South Africa (1880)
The Englishwoman in America (1856)
The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875)
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (1883)
Korea and her Neighbours (1898)
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899)
Popotovanje od Litije do Cateža (1858) a journey from Litija to Catež that includes a very influential Slovenian literary programme.
His Life and Adventrures (1889)
Icelandic Journals (1911)
The Innocents Abroad (1869)
Roughing It (1872)
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
Following the Equator (1897)
Palmetto Leaves (1873)
Fresh Fields (1884)
Certain Delightful English Towns (1906)
A Little Tour in France (1884)
English Hours (1905)
The American Scene (1907)
Italian Hours (1909)
Sailing Alone Around the World (1899)
An Inland Voyage (1878)
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
The Capitals of Spanish America (1888)
Guatemala (1891)
Costa Rica (1891)
Ecuador (1891)
Venezuela: A Land Where It's Always Summer (1896)
Today in France and Germany (1897)
Between the Andes and the Ocean (1900)
The Turk and His Lost Provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia (1903)
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (1903)
Today in Syria and Palestine (1903)
Modern India (1905)
Egypt, Burma, and British Malaysia (1905)
One Irish Summer (1909)
Around the Black Sea (1911)
Letters on Canada (1911)
Turkestan: The Heart of Asia (1911)
Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas (1894)
Aconcagua and Tierra Del Fuego: A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration (1902)
Safarnama e Rome-o-Misr-o-Sham ("Travelogue of Rome and Egypt and Syria", 1892), a travelogue of Rome, Egypt, Syria and Turkey along with his scholar companion Thomas Walker Arnold
The Valley of Kashmir (1895)
The India we Served (1929)
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (1888)
Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914)
Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter: The Peoples of the United States (1889)
Europe Jatrir Diary (Part I)(1891)
Japan Jatri (1919)
Russiar Chithi or Rashiar Chithi (1931)
Parashya Jatri (1932)
Enchanted India (1898)
Travels in West Africa (1897)
Yosemite Trails (1911)
California Coast Trails (1913)
California Desert Trails (1919)
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890)
Au Pied du Sinaï (1898; new ed. 2000). Travels in Jewish Europe down to Palestine
Edward Ermatinger's York Factory Express Journal: being a record of journeys made between Fort Vancouver and Hudson Bay in the years 1827-1828 (published 1912)
The Cyclades, or, Life among the insular Greeks (London, 1885)
The ruined cities of Mashonaland, being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891 (London, 1891)
The Sacred City of the Ethiopians. Being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893 (London, 1893)
Southern Arabia (London, 1900 – completed posthumously by Mabel Bent)
La 628-E8 (1908)
Letters from Niš Regarding Harems (1897)
Letters from Salonica on the Young Turk Revolution (1918)
Letters from India (1928)
Letters from Egypt (1929)
The New World, alias: In America for a Year (1934)
South (1919)
In Morocco (1920)
The Passing of the Aborigines (1938)
Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908 (English trans. 1940) explorations by Czarist spy who would later become President of Finland.
Old Calabria (1915)
On the Way Home (1962)
West from Home (1974)
A Little House Traveler (2006)
Persian Pictures (1894)
Syria: The Desert and the Sown (1907)
Neue Menschen auf alter Erde: Eine Palästinafahrt (1925)
Fünf Minuten Amerika (1931)
Amyntas (1906)
Voyage au Congo (1927) – (Travels in the Congo)
Le retour de Tchad (1928)
Retour de l'U. R. S. S. (1936)
Retouches â mon retour de l'U. R. S. S (1937)
Our Hispanic Southwest (1916) contains the first usage of the ethnic slur "spic"
The Path To Rome (1902) a ramble by foot from central France to Rome in 1901.
On a Chinese Screen (1922) vignettes of China from the master of the short story.
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (1903)
The Cruise of the Snark (1911)
Pisma iz Norveške / Letters from Norway (1914)
The Travel Diary of a Philosopher (1925)
Sea and Sardinia (1921)
Out of Africa (1938)
(1921)
Urok Južnega morja / Im Banne der Sudsee (1930)
Mistika Južnega morja, I. del Polinezija, II. del Melanezija-Mikronezija / Mistic of the South Sea; Polynesia, Melanesia- Micronesia (1931)
Malik (1932)
(1935)
(1936,1939,1943)
Nabobova stranska žena / Nabob's side wife (1937)
Mala Siamka / Little Siamese (1937)
(1948)
(2006)
Kot ujetnica pri lovcih na glavo na Novi Gvineji / As a prisoner among the head hunters in New Guinea (1960)
Samotno potovanje / Einsame Weltreise (1969)
a Slovene anthropologist who spoke 12 world languages published 24 books and over 40 literary works between 1921 and 1937 from her travels in China, Japan, Papua New Guinea, India, Polynesia, Micronesia, Australia, Peru.
Between Oxus and Jumna (1961)
Between Niger and Nile (1965)
Between Maule and Amazon (1967)
The Heart of London (1925)
In Search of England (1927)
White Shadows in the South Seas (1919)
Mystic Isles of the South Seas (1921)
Atolls of the Sun (1922
Motor-Cycling for Women (1928)[6]
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) an 1,181-page look at Yugoslavia before World War II.
The Valleys of the Assassins (1934)
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut (1936)
Seen In The Hadhramaut (1938)
A Winter in Arabia (1940)
Ionia a Quest (1954)
The Lycian Shore (1956)
Alexander's Path (1958)
Riding to the Tigris (1959).
Volga Se Ganga ("A Journey From Volga to Ganges", 1944)
L'honorable partie de campagne ("The honorable picnic", 1924)
De Shang-Haï à Canton ("From Shanghai to Canton", 1927)
20 Hrs. 40 Min. (1928)
Last Flight (1937)
Alleen de havens zijn ons trouw ("Only the Ports Are Loyal to Us", 1992 [1927–1932])
Eight Years in Tibet (1983)
A Moveable Feast (1964; published posthumously)
And a Right Good Crew (1958)
Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India (1936) a somewhat curmudgeonly account of 1934 travels in British India by a later famous Canadian journalist and television personality.
The Royal Road to Romance (1925)
The Glorious Adventure (1927)
New Worlds to Conquer (1929)
The Flying Carpet (1932)
Seven League Boots (1935)
My Several Worlds (1954)
A Bridge For Passing (1962)
The People of Japan (1966)
China as I See It (1970)
Out in the Blue (1927)
Speak to the Earth: Wanderings and Reflections among Elephants and Mountains (1937).
A Russian Journal (1948) A trip through Russia, Ukraine and Georgia in the Soviet Union shortly after World War II with the friend and renowned war photographer Robert Capa.
(1962) an American road book describing Steinbeck's journeys with his poodle, Charley.
"WE" (1927)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1953)
Du Chakay Duniya ("The World on Two Wheels", 1986), about his experiences of traveling through the world on a bicycle
The Silent Traveller series 11 books about his travels in Britain, the US and Japan
Turkestan Solo - One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum (her journey from Moscow to Kirghizstan and Uzbekistan in 1932)
The Cruel Way (from Geneva to Kabul)
The Land of the Sherpas (photographs and texts on her first encounter with Nepal in 1951)
Labels: A Mediterranean Journal (1930)
Remote People (1931)
Ninety-Two Days: Travels in Guiana and Brazil (1934)
Waugh in Abyssinia (1936)
Robbery Under Law (1939)
When the Going Was Good (1946)
A Tourist in Africa (1960)
Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing (2003) an account of the English novelist's restless wanderings around the world in the 1930s and later.
This Salzburg! (1937)
The Aran Islands, with illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. (1907)
Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara, with illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. (1911)
Journey Without Maps (1936)
The Spanish Labyrinth (1943)
The Face of Spain (1950)
The Road to Oxiana (1937) travels in Persia and Afghanistan
The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958) Auberon Waugh (1939 - 2001) described van der Post as the person in whose company he'd most like to spend an evening. This book by the South African soldier/explorer/writer suggests why.
Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections (1968)
Tramp Royale (1992)
A Journey to China in 1933 — Travels through the USSR, Manchuria and China.
A Journey from Peking to Kashmir — Journey from Peking to Srinagar via Sinkiang. He was accompanied on this journey by Ella Maillart (Kini). Later reissued as half of Travels in Tartary.
Thrilling Cities (1963)
How to Cook a Wolf (1942)
Map of Another Town: A Memoir of Provence (1964)
Dubious Honors (1988)
Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon (1991)
Tristes Tropiques (1955)
Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir (1978)
Man Eaters and Jungle Killers (1959)
Jungles Long Ago (1976)
Yallah (1957)
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963)
Arabian Sands (1959)
The Marsh Arabs (1964)
Return to the Marshes (1977)
Iraq: Land of Two Rivers (1980)
Slow Boats to China (1981)
Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey (1983)
Slow Boats Home (1985)
Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra (1945) this text describes Durrell's time in Corfu. It should be read in tandem with his brother Gerald's My Family and Other Animals.
Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953) experiences in Rhodes.
Bitter Lemons (1957) travels in Cyprus.
Secret Tibet (1952)
Meeting with Japan (1960)
Seven Years in Tibet (1952)
Ladakh: Gods and Mortals Behind the Himalayas (1980)
Return to Tibet (1985)
To the City of the Dead: An Account of Travels in Mexico (1957)
Incas and Other Men: Travels in the Andes (1959)
Faces of India: A Travel Narrative (1964)
Asia, Gods and Cities: Aden to Tokyo (1966)
Kerala: A Portrait of the Malabar Coast (1967)
South Sea Journey (1976)
Peoples of the Coast: The Indians of the Pacific Northwest (1977)
Caves in the Desert: Travels in China (1988)
Mera Pakistani Safarnama ("My Pakistani Travelogue", 1960)
Mera Russi Safarnama ("My Russian Travelogue"; 1969)
People of the Reeds (1957)
(1953)
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (1966)
A Time Of Gifts (1977) Covers the first part of Fermor's journey from Rotterdam to Constantinople as a 19-year-old in 1933-34. Rewritten in old age from memory, covering the Netherlands to Hungary.
Between the Woods and the Water (1986) The second part of the journey begun in A Time of Gifts, covering Hungary to Romania.
Three Letters from the Andes (1991)
The Broken Road (2013) The third part of the journey narrated in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, covering Romania to Thrace.
Viaje a la Alcarria (1948)
Turkish Reflections: A Biography of Place (1991)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958)
Slowly Down the Ganges (1966)
On the Shores of the Mediterranean (1984)
Post to Never-Never Land (Poland, 1968) reports from Australia.
Heat and fever (Poland, 1970) reports from the work in World Health Organization Information department in Geneva, travels in New Delhi, Bangkok and Manila, 1967-1968.
Indija Koromandija (1962), a travelogue through India by one of the most important Slovenian essayists of the 20th century
Hodoljublja (1982, "TV Sarajevo" Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Travelogue - a travel documentary with focus on culture, traditions, art and nature of Bosnia and Herzegovina, (ex) Yugoslavia and countries he sojourned, primarily Islamic and countries of Mediterranean Basin.)
Nekrolog jednoj caršiji (1958) (Obituary of a caršija (the downtown/main street Ottoman-Turkish style bazaar)) (with an introduction by Ivo Andric)
Pisma iz Azije (1973) (Letters from Asia)
Pisma iz Afrike i Evrope (Letters from Africa & Europe)
Stogodišnje price (Centennial tales)
Putovanje bijelom Ladom (1982) (Voyage with white "Lada" ("Lada" is a brand of Russian automobile))
Adakale
Zelena coja Montenegra (Green carpet of Montenegro - co-authored with Serbian novelist Momo Kapor)
On the Road (1957)
Local Color (1950)
The Muses Are Heard (1956)
My Family and Other Animals (1956) a description of an idyllic childhood on Corfu in the 1930s by the brother of Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990). This text combines natural observations, humour, storytelling, and travel.
Fillets of Plaice (1971)
Coast to Coast (1956)
Oxford (1965)
The Matter of Wales (1984)
The World (Travels 1950 – 2000)
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age (1962)
The Snow Leopard (1978)
East of Lo Monthang: In the Land of Mustang (1995)
Ulster: A Journey Through the Six Counties (1962)
"America" (1986)
The Motorcycle Diaries (1952) Traces the 8000 km trip through South America of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado a 29-year-old biochemist (who also published his own diaries of the event in Travelling with Che Guevara).
Peter Klepec in America (1971), a travelogue through the United States by one of the most important Slovenian essayists of the 20th century
Campos de Nijar (1959)
Jupiter's Travels (1979)
(1965)
Tibetan Foothold (1966)
(1967)
In Ethiopia with a Mule (1968)
On a Shoestring to Coorg (1976)
Where the Indus is Young (1977)
A Place Apart (1978)
Wheels Within Wheels: autobiography (1979)
Race to the Finish? the nuclear stakes (1982) and further books from all over the world, the last on Israel and Palestine in 2015)
Another Day of Life (1976)
The Soccer War (1978)
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (1978)
Shah of Shahs (1982)
Imperium (1993)
The Shadow of the Sun (2001)
Berlijnse Notities (1990)
Roads to Santiago (1992)
Nootebooms Hotel (2002)
Italian Days (1989)
Paradise News, 1991
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
The Curse of Lono (1980)
Moskva - P?tushki (1973) a Russian tale of alcohol, love, and a train ride; translated into English as Moscow to the End of the Line.
Blue Highways: A Journey into America (1982)
A Year in Provence (1989)
Mirror to Damascus (1967)
In Siberia (1999)
Among the Russians (1983)
Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (1987)
To a Mountain in Tibet (2011)
(2021)
In Patagonia (1977) Travels in Patagonia in the early 1970s.
The Songlines (1987) Travels in the outback of Australia in the early 1980s.
What Am I Doing Here (1988) Collected short travelogues and articles.
Under the Tuscan Sun (1996) a memoir of buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in rural Tuscany in Italy.
The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) Theroux's most popular travel work.
The Old Patagonian Express (1979)
Travelling The World - The Illustrated Travels of Paul Theroux (1990)
The Happy Isles of Oceania (1992)
The Pillars of Hercules (1995)
Fresh Air Fiend (2000)
Dark Star Safari (2002)
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (2008)
The Tao of Travel (2011)
(1981)
Travels (1988)
Soul Mountain (1990)
Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone (1987)
Wall to Wall: from Beijing to Berlin by Rail (1991)
Angels & Aliens: A Journey West (1999)
The River Queen (2007)
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Driving Like Crazy (2009)
Holidays in Heck (2011)
By the Sun and Stars (1986)
Roads: Driving America's Great Highways (2000)
Paradise (2002)
Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg (2003)
Andulus Mei Chand Roz (A Few Days in Al-Andalus)
Dunya Meray Aagay (The World Ahead of me)
Jahaan-e-Deedah (The World Beheld)
Safar Dar Safar (Travels)
Uhud se Qasiyoon Tak (From Uhud to Mount Qasioun)
Around the World In 80 Days (1989)
Sahara (2002)
Himalaya (2004)
Best Travel Writing 2005, introduction, pp. xvii-xxi, (2005)
A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration, (2004) pp. 325–343.
Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader, (ed.) (2003)
Travelers' Tales Cuba, (ed.) (2001)
Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest (2000)
Trading With the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba (1992)
The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey From South America (1986)
Arizona: The Land and the People, (ed.) (1986)
On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier (1981)
Ajia kaido kiko: umi wa toshi de aru (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard, 2002)
An Evening Among Headhunters: And Other Reports from Roads Less Taken (1999)
Last Places: A Journey in the North (2000)
Northern Latitudes (2000)
Lost in the Arctic: Explorations on the Edge (2002)
The Serpent Coiled in Naples (2022)
The Last Opium Den (2002)
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia (1999)
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree (2002)
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society (2007)
(1989)
(1992)
Notes from a Small Island (1995) travels in the United Kingdom.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1999)
Down Under (2001)
Bill Bryson's African Diary (2002)
(2015)
Last Chance to See (1990)
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983)
Guadalajara (1997)
Barcelona und andere Erzählungen (2007)
(1996)
(2002) – a chronicle of motorcycle trips through North and Central America
Traveling Music: The Soundtrack of My Life and Times (2004)
Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand (1997)
Stalin's Nose (1992)
The Oatmeal Ark (1997)
Under the Dragon (1998)
Next Exit Magic Kingdom (2000)
Falling for Icarus (2004)
Magic Bus (2006)
Homage to Barcelona (1990)
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994)
Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (2001) – winner of the Lowell Thomas Award 'Travel Book of the Year'[7] and North American Travel Journalist Association 'Grand Prize'[8]
Savages, The Life and Killing of the Yanomami (1992)
Amazon (1990)
A Walk Along the Ganges (1986)
A Cook's Tour (2001)
Video Night in Kathmandu (1988)
Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World (1993)
Sun after Dark: Flights into the Foreign (2004)
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise (2023)
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It (2003)
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World (2016)
One for the Road: An Outback Adventure (1987)
Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia (1991)
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (1998)
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (2002)
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (2008)
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000)
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005)
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (2010)
(2003)
Siberian Dawn: A Journey Across the New Russia (1999)
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness (2000)
Glory in a Camel's Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara (2003)
Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel (2005)
River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny (2006)
(2009)
A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes (2014)
India, and Fathers (2017)
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation (1995)
A Quest (1989)
From the Holy Mountain (1994)
(2009)
Wild (2006)
Beyond the Devil's Teeth (1995)
Sorcerer's Apprentice (1998)
Trail of Feathers (2001)
In Search of King Solomon's Mines (2002)
House of the Tiger King (2004)
The Caliph's House (2006)
In Arabian Nights (2008)
Travels With Myself: Collected Work (2011)
Timbuctoo (2012)
(2000)
(2003)
Burma Chronicles (2007)
(2011)
(2012)
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (2004)
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (2006)
One Woman's Search for Everything, Across Italy, India and Indonesia (2006)
Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop But Never Get Off (2009)
600 Miles to Timbuktu (2004)
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (2003)
The Year of Spring: The Travel What Lasts a Year (2012)
Le monde en stop (2009)
Unforgettablep Places to See Before You Die (2004)