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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

240 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
nonfiction biography travel adventurous reflective sad medium-paced
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Eric Weiner

335 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
nonfiction memoir psychology travel funny informative reflective medium-paced
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid by J. Maarten Troost

Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

J. Maarten Troost

382 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
nonfiction travel adventurous funny informative medium-paced
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost

Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

J. Maarten Troost

239 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
nonfiction memoir travel adventurous funny medium-paced
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Shantaram

Shantaram #1

Gregory David Roberts

944 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
fiction contemporary travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
The Beach by Alex Garland

The Beach

Alex Garland

448 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
fiction contemporary thriller adventurous dark tense medium-paced
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

J. Maarten Troost

288 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
nonfiction memoir travel adventurous funny informative medium-paced
Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin

Finding George Orwell in Burma

Emma Larkin

294 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir by Kristin Newman

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir

Kristin Newman

304 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
nonfiction memoir travel adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

David Foster Wallace

336 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0seaglanz's review
fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced