7 must-read travel books like The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship by Chaney Kwak

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The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship

By: Chaney Kwak

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the Arctic Sea. Rocked by…

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1. Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

By: Dave Barry

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Priz… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He could be a testosterone donor."

-Dave Barry, Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

"If a Greek woman tells you to do something, you do it."

-Dave Barry, Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

"Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking."

-Dave Barry, Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

"Under Florida's "stand your ground" law, it is legal to shoot anybody for any reason as long as you are standing on the ground."

-Dave Barry, Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

Cover of Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times by Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

2. Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times

By: Don Kladstrup , Petie Kladstrup

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, waves of invaders have coveted the northeast corner of France: Attila the Hun i… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

By: Peter Ackroyd

3.46

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of everythin… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography

4. How the Irish Became White

By: Noel Ignatiev

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Iri… read more

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5. Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic

By: Kevin Grange

3.67

Format: 220 pages,

A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program--and practicing emerg… read more

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6. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

By: Benjamin Lorr

3.95

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

7. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Liberators

By: E.J. Koh

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be marr… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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10. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

11. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins

12. Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

By: Max Allan Collins

3.86

Format: 752 pages, ebook

At last, the definitive history of Al Capone, Eliot Ness's Untouchables, and gangster-era Chicago –… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places by Adam  Fletcher

13. Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places

By: Adam Fletcher

3.84

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

How much would you risk to change your life? After Spiegel bestselling author Adam Fletcher is … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Tuk-Tuk for Two

By: Adam Fletcher

4.21

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

“The race…” She said. “India. Were you serious?”About racing a tuk-tuk one thousand kilometres thro… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner by Liz Hauck

15. Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner

By: Liz Hauck

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman honors her father's legacy by teaching a cooking class in a home for youth in state care--a… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

17. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship by Chaney Kwak

18. The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship

By: Chaney Kwak

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the Arctic Sea. Rocked by… read more

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  • audiobook
  • survival
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Don't Come Back: a travel adventure of bad-tempered baboons, black magic, and breakups. by Adam  Fletcher

19. Don't Come Back: a travel adventure of bad-tempered baboons, black magic, and breakups.

By: Adam Fletcher

4.08

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a spam e-mail change your life? Adam Fletcher sure hopes so, because his life is a mess. He’… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street by Rick Antonson

20. Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street

By: Rick Antonson

3.74

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

“You’ll never understand America until you’ve driven Route 66—that’s old Route 66—all the way,” a t… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
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21. Digital Nomads For Dummies

By: Kristin M. Wilson

4.03

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Why work from home when you can work anywhere?   Not all who wander are lost! Digital Nomads For D… read more

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7 Top adult books like The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship by Chaney Kwak

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Dave Barry

3.82

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E.J. Koh

3.46

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Blake Butler

3.66

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Greg Marshall

3.97

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Scott Eyman

3.78

Transform Your Habits

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Peter Tunstall

4.45

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Kevin Fedarko

4.36

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Julie Satow

4.06

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