Red Around the World

Red Around the World is a blog all about national parks, road trips, and all things outdoors, with a side of great books. You'll mostly find travel books, but I also love YA, fantasy, true crime, non-fiction, and more. This is where you'll find my travel book lists, personal favorites, and other recommendations.

Favorite YA VIEW LIST (50 BOOKS)

Wood

The Witch Boy: A Graphic Novel (the Witch Boy Trilogy #1)

How to Hang a Witch

These Witches Don't Burn

The Babysitters Coven

Julie of the Wolves

The Canyon's Edge

The 5th Wave: The First Book of the 5th Wave Series

Girls with Sharp Sticks: Volume 1

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One): Volume 1

Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Book Two): Volume 2

Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three): Volume 3

Afterworlds

Divergent

Insurgent

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Favorite Non-Fiction VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)

Amazon Woman: Facing Fears, Chasing Dreams, and a Quest to Kayak the World's Largest River from Source to Sea

Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel

Sola: One Woman's Journey Alone Across South America

Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival

Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

Educated: A Memoir

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

Jungle (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon

Favorite Fiction VIEW LIST (22 BOOKS)

The Sun Down Motel

The Creak on the Stairs: Volume 1

Track of the Cat

Ill Wind

Blood Lure

Blind Descent

You, 1

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Today Will Be Different

Nancy Drew 02: The Hidden Staircase

1984

Tortured Dreams

Ritual Dreams

Summoned Dreams

The Handmaid's Tale

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Favorite Travel Books VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)

Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel

Sola: One Woman's Journey Alone Across South America

Paris, I Love You But You're Bringi

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Happier Than a Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week

Shantaram

Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure

Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession

438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

No Summit Out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits

Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. One Step at a Time.

Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios

North Korea Journal

Books About the Amazon Rainforest VIEW LIST (19 BOOKS)

Amazon Woman: Facing Fears, Chasing Dreams, and a Quest to Kayak the World's Largest River from Source to Sea

Off the Map: A Journey Through the Amazonian Wild

Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival

Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios

The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes

Jungle (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. One Step at a Time.

The Girl with No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Journey to the River Sea

In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

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Books About North Korea VIEW LIST (21 BOOKS)

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea

North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors

The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia

The Impossible State, Updated Edition: North Korea, Past and Future

Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea

North Korea Journal

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom

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Books About Chernobyl VIEW LIST (8 BOOKS)

The Sky Unwashed

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl

Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone

Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places

Wolves Eat Dogs: Volume 5

Books About Italy VIEW LIST (31 BOOKS)

Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture

Return to Glow: A Pilgrimage of Transformation in Italy

Love & Gelato

Beautiful Ruins

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure

That Month in Tuscany

Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Mezza Italiana: An Enchanting Story about Love, Family, La Dolce Vita and Finding Your Place in the World

The Lady in the Palazzo: An Umbrian Love Story

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany

The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club

Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra

Under the Tuscan Sun: 20th-Anniversary Edition

The Tuscan Child

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Best Spooky Books for Halloween VIEW LIST (38 BOOKS)

Horrid

Into the Drowning Deep

The Year of the Witching

The Ruins

The Sun Down Motel

The Whisper Man

Shattered

Heart-Shaped Box

NOS4A2

Twelve Nights at Rotter House

Ruthless

Diary of a Haunting

A Head Full of Ghosts

Asylum

We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Books About Mount Everest and the Himalayas VIEW LIST (20 BOOKS)

Peak

No Summit Out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits

Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest

High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest

Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest

Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest

The Everest Years: The Challenge of the World's Highest Mountain

Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest

Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy

No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

The Endless Knot: K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny

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