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My book club is looking for a pick about a trip or journey (not just physical journeys, but also emotional or spiritual ones). What are your suggestions?

My book club is looking for a pick about a trip or journey. I’d like to include some choices that aren’t just about physical journeys, but also emotional or spiritual ones. What are your suggestions?

Amy #recommend #travel

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Jaimie
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Jackie

Hundred foot hourney

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Monica

LOVED this book!

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Maheswari

Looptail by Bruce Poon Tip.

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Deborah

Hilma Wolitzer, HEARTS

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Susan

The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty

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Cathy

The Widows’ Adventures by Charles Dickinson! Two elderly widowed sisters set off on a cross-country trip; only one of them can drive and she’s blind. Her sister navigates as they drive the backroads at night. My book club read it years ago and loved it.

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Zoe

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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Kathryne

This is a wonderful read.

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Teresa

A Passage to India

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Lori

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse is a spiritual walk based on Buddha.

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Claire

The Bean Tree by Barbara Kingsolver

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Claire

An oldie…A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins.

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Marren

Halfway to Forever by Karen Kingsbury.

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Susan

Travels with Charlie

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Katie

The Yellow Envelope

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Jake

Finding George Orwell in Burma

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Diane

“The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow” by A.J.Mackinnon, one of my favourites of all time.

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Jake

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

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Kathryne

While not written for adults,, I’ve yet to meet an adult who didn’t LOVE the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.

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Kathryne

Cutting for Stone is also one of my favorite books.

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Anita

The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg.

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Annette

Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo

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Jane

The salt path, book of the unnamed midwife, the memory of running

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Judith

A Widow’s Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Pages
As someone who has gone through this, it was cathartic to read someone else’s journey through grief.

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Diane

The Little Paris Bookshop.

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Michelle

Borrowed Time by Jenni Daiches. It’s a poignant and lovely novel. “A year after the sudden death of her husband, Sonia Billings impulsively leaves her Yorkshire home of nearly four decades for a rundown railway carriage in the Scottish Highlands, much to the dismay of her three grown children, who would prefer that she remain in England.” It’s about her becoming her own woman in her 70s and shows life doesn’t have to end even if it does change.

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Susan

This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

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Lori

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison.

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Cynthia

Eat Pray Love

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Jackie

Journey

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Dana

Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead

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Janet

Wild, by Cheryl Strayed.
A Year By The Sea by Joan Anderson;
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer;
Blood, Bones and Butter
by Gabrielle Hamilton;
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

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Amber

The Alchemist
It’s both a physical and spiritual journey

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Lisa

To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey!!!!

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Leslie

Hey, I just suggested that one too.

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Catherine
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Dana
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Emily

The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin

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Catarina

Bill Bryson’s book – so funny!!

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Cynthia

A Walk in the Woods?

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Catarina

All of them, really!

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Susan

The Lost Continent, Neither Here nor There, In a Sunburned Country – all about travels & all funny!

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Carôle

He is a seriously funny Travel Author. My advice would be to start with his first book – Notes From a Small Island – however, don’t read any of them in public!

Quite unexpectedly you will burst out laughing!! You won’t see it coming, and you may feel embarrassed by doing so! ?? But once you start with him, you won’t stop…?

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Leslie

To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey is about a physical journey for one character and an emotional journey for his wife. It’s a lovely story of discovery told in letters and journal entries.

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Christa

Huckleberry Finn, The Secret Life of Bees

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Chan

Aren’t almost all books worth reading about emotional journeys?

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Harry

A Voyage Long and Strange by tony Horowitz

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Wanda

Remembering the Bones…Frances Itani

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Tobias

Into the wild, the snow leopard

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Janet

The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama. Forgot this one on my other list!

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Janet

Janna Katz gave that to me and it is one of my go-to favorite books!

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Candace

Water for elephants, eat pray love, the mountain between us

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Carôle

The Mountain Between Us, is that the name of the film? Based on the book?

If so, I recently saw the movie on a plane – it was fabulous, so I’m guessing that the book would be better?

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Candace

@Carôle Yes there’s a book as well and I haven’t read it yet but a friend of mine thought it was great

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Carôle

If the film is anything to go by, it Really Is!

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Jessie

Traveling with Pomegranates a Mother Daughter Story By: Sue Monk Kidd..
My daughter gave this book to me for my birthday this year. ?

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Susan

The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared

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Carôle

Oh yes! What a bizarre and novel book!!! Funny, that didn’t come to mind as a travel book! Good call ????????.

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Laura

I thought about listing that, too.

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Lynne

Becoming Justice Blackmum: Harry Blackmum’s Supreme Court Journey by Linda Greenhouse

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Laura

The Alice Network.
The Nightingale.
Motorcycle Diaries.

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Laura

Grapes of Wrath

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