Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers » (Original)

Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the world. In Book Lust To Go, Pearl connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations—whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, this literary globetrotting guide points readers to the literature of places near and far. Whatever your port of call, Nancy Pearl's reading recommendations will send you on your way.

Publishers Weekly

With the holidays just around the corner, Nancy Pearl's little gem will please many a traveler (or dreamer) who loves to read about faraway places but doesn't know where to start. With fanciful alliteration, Pearl lists titles under topics arranged from "A is for Adventure" to "Zipping through Zimbabwe." Recommendations are accompanied by brief critiques and insights. In an entry for "Las Vegas," for example, Pearl recommends Chris Ewan's novel, The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas, for fans of Hiaassen and Westlake, capers that use various cities of the world for their settings. Pearl classifies her recommendations well enough so that readers can take or leave her advice. In "Africa," for instance, she includes the classic Cry the Beloved Country as well as contemporary mysteries such as Wife of the Gods. It might have been easy to stick with the country structure for a book like this, but Pearl mixed it up, to good effect, with chapters like "So We/I Bought (or Built) A House In…" which includes books about homes in Morocco, Mexico, France, Brazil, and Ireland. Pearl has produced a winner and the perfect bedside companion. (Oct.)