The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time

Lists: The definitive list of travel books that travel writers, editors, bloggers and readers love best

06.15.10 | 9:07 AM ET

You ll find that a few books don t fit the most rigid definition of travel memoir; we didn t want our list to be too narrow or fussy. Rather, we wanted it to be broad and inclusive. Also, although we numbered the books from 1 to 100, we didn t rank them; they appear here in alphabetical order. (You can find the 10 most celebrated books here .) The lists we drew from are noted below the book titles. The numbers in brackets after each book title on the list correspond to the source lists on which that title appears; a dollar sign in brackets indicates that a book was included based on extremely high sales. (Read the fine print for more detail on how we determined the 100 most celebrated travel books of all time.)

21) Black Like Me. by John Howard Griffin (13)

22) Blue Highways. by William Least Heat-Moon (2, 4, 8, 11, 12, 13)

39) Golden Earth. by Norman Lewis (1)