Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
It’s freebie week for TTT and I’m just so stuck on the yearning to travel that I’m bringing back out the books that help me feel like I’m traveling even though I’m very much not. Or perhaps, it’ll have the opposite effect and make me wish I was traveling even more.
Either way, who doesn’t love a bit of travel escapism in their reading? Please don’t raise your hand if that’s you. (Just kidding, you totally can, but I’ll need a 5-paragraph essay from you explaining why not).
Without further ado, here are some of the books that make me want to travel to the locations heavily featured within its pages.
1. Love & Gelato / Love & Luck / Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch
2. The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
3. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
4. The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall
5. I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowski
6. Hot British Boyfriend by Kristy Boyce
7. Loveboat Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
8. Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo
9. Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson
10. Breathless by Amy McCulloch
Have you read some of these books and wanted to go to those locations? Do you have any great recommendations for books featuring locations around the world? I’d honestly need more for my TBR because this girl is not traveling anywhere any time soon.
Until next week, friends!
Down the Rabbit Hole 
What a wonderful topic. It alone makes me want to travel. Plus you’ve named some book that deserve that I do some investigating. My TTT Freebie list
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Thank you! Haha yeah definitely makes me wanna go somewhere outside of my own hometown for a while
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Love this post! I love highlighting where my books have taken me (I do a monthly meme so that I can keep a note of the different places I have read about!).
I especially like the first set of books. I have seen the first one around a lot lately – must be because of the summery cover!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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Oh that monthly meme sounds amazing! Will have to check it out. I hope some of these books can add to that list eventually 😊
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I find it fun 🙂 I’ve only just started doing it as a proper thing the last couple of months. Before that I did it just for my own entertainment each month!
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I really should read Love & Gelato one of these days!
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-an-outdoor-adventures-reading-list/
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It’s definitely way better than the recently released movie so definitely go for the book 😊
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Great list, Andge! I haven’t read any of these but I do love escaping to locations when reading books. Last week’s topic with all the summer covers made me want to travel to the beach 😂
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Right??? This is totally my brain’s follow up to last week’s topic 😂 I just want to get away even if not physically this summer
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Great list! I’m going to check out “I See London, I See France.” Looks Good. Here’s my TTT: https://bonniereadsandwrites.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/top-ten-tuesday-top-10-books-featuring-animals-toptentuesday-bookswithanimals/
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I recently watched the Love & Gelato movie and it definitely made me want to go back to Italy: I went to Naples about 12 years ago and loved it, but I’d love to go back and see places like Rome, Venice and Florence. I’d also really love to go Ireland, it’s right on my doorstep (I live in the UK) and I’ve never been!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/top-ten-tuesday-377/
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Italy is wonderful! I really hope you get to visit soon. I went to Venice 6 (how has it been this long already?) years ago and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there. Ireland’s a high priority on my bucket list and it sounds like the perfect place to road trip.
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So do I, my friends and I have been talking about doing an interrailing trip and we think Italy is one of the places we’d want to stop, so hopefully that’s something we’ll manage to do in the next few years. Everything I’ve seen about Venice makes me think I’d love it, it looks so beautiful. Italy is such a beautiful country and so full of history that I definitely want to explore it more. Yeah I don’t really know why I’ve never been to Ireland considering how close it is, I really need to change that soon!
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Yes! I’ve always been so jealous of the ability to travel by train between countries in Europe. I hope you get to do that soon. Italy has the great combination of food, culture and sights to explore. I really wanna go back soon too 😝
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It is one of the best things about living here, though it may be a little more difficult since Brexit than it used to be….
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I love travelling through books! The Seven Sisters Series by Lucinda Riley makes me feel like travelling and I still say someone need to get clever enough and organize a Seven Sisters tour.
Great post!
Elza Reads
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Ohhh will have to check it out! Thanks for the rec 😊
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Hot British Boyfriend sounds cute!
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It’s cool how books make us want to travel. I’ve read a bunch set in South Carolina and now I really want to go there.
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Oh yes! I’ve always wanted to visit South Carolina and some of the other southern states. I definitely feel the magic of books is the way it brings us into its world
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Great topic! I’ve not read any of your picks, but I do really love books that make me want to travel.
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i want to travel so bad and Breathless is at the top of my tbr. hope it lives up to the hype
my ttt: https://blessedmommysc.blogspot.com/2022/07/top-ten-tuesday-10-authors-i-want-to.html
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Hope you enjoy Breathless! I absolutely ADORED that book and *almost* makes me wish I was brave enough to go alpine climbing.
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Fantastic topic! Yes, the Jenna Evans Welch books all make me want to travel!!
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Thanks Leslie! When I read her last book, Love & Olives, it made me reminisce of my time in santorini. I had to go back and look up my photos (which I included in my review post 😂)
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Oh my gosh…. Santorini is a bucket list place for me!! I am jealous! haha
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I’d pick up The Conspiracy of Us just for the cover. It’s gorgeous!
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this is such a unique topic! i haven’t read any of these books but all of the places they feature sound like a ton of fun to visit💜
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They are!! Definitely great ways to introduce yourself to a new place too if going there in person may not happen for a long time 😊
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Oh I love this topic – and now I want to travel to all of the places!
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I’m glad you enjoyed it! I love books that allow me to travel vicariously
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