An incredibly imagined fantasy bildungsroman, it follows the eponymous boy wizard as he attends the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and contends with his destiny to fight the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Of all the zeitgeist-defining fiction to come out of the past twenty years, perhaps none has been more universally beloved than the Harry Potter series by J.K. <–All places I want to see someday.All the Harry Potter Books in Order: Your J.K. My favorite chapters were Wales Welcomes You, South Africa, Patagonia, Siberian Chills, and Alaska. You’ll have a sense of the place when finishing the book. In each chapter, Pearl recommends books that offer the reader an opportunity to travel vicariously through reading or get a feel for that particular landscape. Each chapter covers a location or topic – Vietnam, Scenes from Sri Lanka, Sojourns in South Asia, Texas Two-Step, Baltimore, Oceana – or Miles of Isles and Approaching Appalachia. There are 132 chapters (very short, 2-3 pages). There’s even a chapter on the Chesapeake Bay where Pearl suggests Beautiful Swimmers, Song Yet Sung (James McBride), and the obvious – Chesapeake by James Michener. In a chapter named Cornwall’s Charms, Pearl recommends Read My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, and about 20 others. If you want to know about Albania, read The Unexpected Mrs. So why is Book Lust to Go such a great travel book? Because Nancy identifies hundreds of books – some non-fiction, some fiction – that illustrate a sense of place, books where the setting itself becomes a character. Reading and recommending are Nancy’s focus. As a trained librarian, she reads while keeping in mind other readers who may also enjoy the book. She is a voracious reader who is able to remember what she reads. She is the author of Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason which had a greater-than-expected success in 2003, Basically, Nancy knows books like a computer knows data. Nancy Pearl, a librarian from Washington State is famous for her incredible knowledge of books and her NPR show where she talks about books and recommends reading for every topic of interest.

Like to travel but don’t have the money? Happy to experience travel vicariously through stories and tales?īook Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds and Dreamers by Nancy Pearl is a great resource for armchair travelers – aka couch travelers or people that stay put in their comfy homes, and travel through reading commentary from writers of many genres.

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