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Alternative Travelers

We're Sam and Veren, aka the Alternative Travelers. We are full time digital nomads and house sitters teaching others to do the same through our blog, podcast, and books. We are passionate about veganism, sustainability, and travel. We are avid readers and can't wait to share our recommendations with you. 

Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Best Sustainability Books

The Homemade Vegan Pantry: The Art of Making Your Own Staples [A Cookbook] Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, 10th Anniversary Edition

Best Vegan Books

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

Travel and Places

The Handmaid's Tale Station Eleven Recursion

Favorite Speculative Fiction

The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky The Name of the Wind The Wise Man's Fear

Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Favorite Entrepreneurship + Creativity Books

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No Bs. Just a 6-Week Program That Works

Favorite Self Improvement Books

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Becoming

Favorite Memoirs

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Futurism and Technology Non-Fiction

Anti-Racism and Black History Books VIEW LIST (6 BOOKS)
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
How to Be an Antiracist
Between the World and Me
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism