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?
Hundred foot hourney
LOVED this book!
Looptail by Bruce Poon Tip.
Hilma Wolitzer, HEARTS
The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty
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.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
This is a wonderful read.
A Passage to India
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse is a spiritual walk based on Buddha.
The Bean Tree by Barbara Kingsolver
An oldie…A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins.
Halfway to Forever by Karen Kingsbury.
Travels with Charlie
The Yellow Envelope
Finding George Orwell in Burma
“The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow” by A.J.Mackinnon, one of my favourites of all time.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
While not written for adults,, I’ve yet to meet an adult who didn’t LOVE the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
Cutting for Stone is also one of my favorite books.
The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg.
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
The salt path, book of the unnamed midwife, the memory of running
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.
The Little Paris Bookshop.
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.
This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison.
Eat Pray Love
Journey
Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead
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
The Alchemist
It’s both a physical and spiritual journey
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey!!!!
Hey, I just suggested that one too.
The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin
Bill Bryson’s book – so funny!!
A Walk in the Woods?
All of them, really!
The Lost Continent, Neither Here nor There, In a Sunburned Country – all about travels & all funny!
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…?
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.
Huckleberry Finn, The Secret Life of Bees
Aren’t almost all books worth reading about emotional journeys?
A Voyage Long and Strange by tony Horowitz
Remembering the Bones…Frances Itani
Into the wild, the snow leopard
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama. Forgot this one on my other list!
Janna Katz gave that to me and it is one of my go-to favorite books!
Water for elephants, eat pray love, the mountain between us
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?
@Carôle Yes there’s a book as well and I haven’t read it yet but a friend of mine thought it was great
If the film is anything to go by, it Really Is!
Traveling with Pomegranates a Mother Daughter Story By: Sue Monk Kidd..
My daughter gave this book to me for my birthday this year. ?
The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Oh yes! What a bizarre and novel book!!! Funny, that didn’t come to mind as a travel book! Good call ????????.
I thought about listing that, too.
Becoming Justice Blackmum: Harry Blackmum’s Supreme Court Journey by Linda Greenhouse
The Alice Network.
The Nightingale.
Motorcycle Diaries.
Grapes of Wrath