I'm working on another book salon list. Does anyone have suggestions for fiction that is about travel? (I do not need non-fiction suggestions.)
Here's what I have so far:
The Aeneid
(Virgil)
Around the World in 80 Days
(Jules Verne)
The Beach
(Alex Garland)
Daughter of Fortune
(Isabel Allende)
The Innocents Abroad
(Mark Twain)
The Odyssey
(Homer)
On the Road
(Jack Kerouac)
The Sheltering Sky
(Paul Bowles)
The Sun Also Rises
(Ernest Hemingway)
Travels with My Aunt
(Graham Greene)
Half of
The Stand
is about travel. There's also
Watership Down.
Just off the top of my head.
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Lord of The Rings
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
Canterbury Tales
Passage to India
or
Room with a View
by E.M. Forster
Life of Pi. A lot of Grapes of Wrath is about traveling. The Ghost of Hannah Mendes by Naomi Ragen.
Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning (it's also known as "The Balkans Trilogy").
The Hobbit.
Decameron
Don Quixote or any of the classic "Picaro" tales that were its ancestors.
Till Eulenspiegel though I have to admit my reaction to a lot of the stories was "people thought that was funny? Boiling dogs alive, shitting in public bath houses? Really?" But I guess in an era when public executions, and public floggings were considered entertainment .... And trickster stories traditionally included a lot of very rough humor, so...
