Episode 25: Book travel

Good Librations Podcast episode 25

Come on a literal - and literary! - journey with us across the continents as we visit the storied places and spaces of our favourite reads and beloved authors.

From Shakespeare to Potters - both Beatrix and Harry - pack your bags for a whirlwind trip!

Find it on SpotifyApple or wherever you get your podcasts.

 

Shelf-absorbed (books we reviewed)

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai

A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley

Vera Wongs Advice For Murder  Kamogawa Food  Witchs guide

Shelf-important (things we mentioned)

Wandering Scribbler blog: Beginner's Guide to Literary Travel: 25+ Activities + Places

Literary Travel Bucket List: The Ultimate Travel Bucket List For Book Lovers – Hey, I'm Reading

Literary Traveler blog: Literary Traveler, Literary Tours, Travel Writing, Travel Literature, Luxury Travel, Travel, Hemingway

Literary Travel: Destinations Inspired by Writers

Literary Travel: 10 Destinations All Book Lovers Should Visit - TCK Publishing

Literary Travel: 13 Destinations for Book Lovers - Never Enough Novels

The Book Trail

A Literary Travel Blog | Our World Is A Book

Jimbocho book town

Reykjavik City of Literature Office

Reykjavik Book Fair

Reykjavik Literary Festival

Iceland Writers Retreat

Reykjavik Culture Walks (walking tours via app)

Rainy day bookshop and café

Book and Bed Tokyo

Basho Memorial Museum

Uji City Tourist Association

Haruki Murakami Library

Tono Tourist Association

Hobbiton Movie Set

 

Authors:

  • Beatrix Potter
  • William and Dorothy Wordsworth
  • John Ruskin
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Edward Fitzgerald
  • Samuel Taylor
  • Arthur Ransome
  • James Rebanks
  • Martin Edwards
  • Jane Austen
  • Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte
  • James Herriott
  • Sir Charles Dickens
  • Pip Williams
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Basho
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Heinrich Mann
  • Karl Marx
  • Helen Keller
  • Albert Einstein
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • Jack London
  • Louise Penny
  • Joy Kogawa
  • Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
  • Stephen Butler Leacock
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Louis L’Amour
  • Mark Twain
  • Max Brand
  • Zane Grey
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • John Steinbeck
  • Washington Irving
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Herman Melville
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Walt Whitman
  • Edith Wharton
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Dorothy Parker
  • Robert Benchley
  • Alexander Woollcott
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • William Faulkner
  • George Kaufmann
  • Tim Winton
  • Oscar Wilde

 

Books/written works:

  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire by Howard Pyle
  • Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  • Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  • Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • The Corfu trilogy by Gerald Durrell
  • Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
  • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  • The Chrysalids by David Wyndham
  • The Terror by Dan Simmons
  • The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Birchbark series by Louise Erdrich
  • Westworld by Michael Crichton
  • Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  • Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  • Wild by Cheryl Strayed
  • Into the Wild by Chris McCandless
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  • American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Book Lovers by Emily Henry
  • The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde
  • The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
  • Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
  • Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
  • Contest by Matthew Reilly
  • The Secret River by Kate Grenville
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan London
  • Welcome to Country by Marcia Langton
  • Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

 

I just can't help my-shelf

Authors/works:

  • Damage Done by Warren Fellows
  • The Beach by Alex Garland
  • The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham

Shelf-obsessed (further reading and listening)

  • Literary Places by Sarah Baxter
  • Booked: a traveller's guide to literary locations around the world by Richard Kreitner 
  • The Orwell tour: travels through the life and work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis
  • London: a cultural and literary history by Richard Tames