Top Ten Tuesday

Hosted by The Broke and The Bookish, today's Top Ten topic is: Your Top Ten favourite reads involving travel.

I'm a big fan of travel memoirs so this was easy. What isn't easy is finding new travel books to read that are about someplace other than France or Italy. I would love to read about other countries: Germany, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Australia, Greenland, Iceland, Egypt, Croatia, Turkey, etc  - but I’ve found very little about those countries other than travel guides, which aren't much fun unless you're actually traveling in that country. In January of each year, my book club reads a travel memoir, then gets together for a dinner and discussion, with everyone bringing a dish native to the country we’re reading about. Unfortunately we appear to be running out of books! There are lots on France and Italy but we need more variety. We’ve found a handful but if you know of more that aren’t on this list, please leave a comment - we’d be very grateful!  Here are my top ten travel books:

1. A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle (France)

2. Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle (France)          

3. Encore Provence by Peter Mayle (France)                                    

4. A Trip To The Beach  by Melinda Blanchard and Robert Blanchard (Anguilla)

5. A House in Corfu by Emma Tennant  (Greece)

6. England for All Seasons by Susan Allan Toth (England)

7. Paris My Sweet by Amy Thomas (France)

8. Walking The Bible - Bruce Feiler (Middle East)           

9. Under The Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes (Italy)

10. The Caliph’s House - Tahir Shah (Morocco)