Trips for 2027 and 2028
Twice Told StoriesThese two lists go with our two current trips. You don't have to be going to use them.
Yorkshire beyond the Brontës: landscape, Gothic, crime and working-class fiction, from Elmet to Dracula to South Riding.
Books set in the west of Ireland, from Irish writers and about the landscape.
We don't run trips to these places. The lists are here for anyone who wants to read about them.
Lists built around a place, a theme or a heritage month, each with the real places the books are set. No trip required.
Six essential novels from Latin America and the Latino experience — from Macondo to Mexico City, Havana to East Los Angeles — and the real places that shaped magical realism.
Six novels about women fighting for equality — from Gilead to Shaker Heights, from wartime France to Jackson, Mississippi — and the real places where those fights happened.
Six novels and memoirs set in wild places — from the North Carolina marshes to the Yukon, the Nebraska prairie to the Appalachian Trail and the Australian Outback.
Six novels with disabled and neurodivergent protagonists — and the real places their stories unfold.
Twelve libraries worth booking a flight for — and the book to read before you walk through the door.
Six novels about immigration — from Lahore to London, Lagos to New York — and what it costs to build a life in a country that wasn't made for you.
Six essential Caribbean novels — from Haiti to Trinidad, Dominica to Jamaica — and the real places that pulse through every page.
Six essential LGBTQ+ novels — from Paris in the 1920s to present-day New York — and the real places where queer history was made.
Six novels about Jewish history and identity — from Amsterdam to Jerusalem, Warsaw to New York — and the real places that give them weight.
Six novels from across the Asian Pacific diaspora — from San Francisco to Tokyo, Seoul to Saigon — and the real places that shaped them.
Six novels from and about the Arab world — Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt — and the real places that shaped them.
Six Irish and Irish-American novels that will make you want to book a flight to Wexford, Tipperary, Dublin or Sligo — and never leave.
Six novels about women who changed history — and the real places you can visit to walk in their footsteps.
These five novels aren't just great reads — they're great trips. Each one is rooted in real places that reward a visit, especially when you go with the people you discussed the book with.
12 brilliant Black historical fiction novels paired with the real places that inspired them. Read the history, then walk the ground.
On our trips, the group reads and watches together for several months before travelling. The trip reading lists above are the wider shelf around that: more books set in the same place.
Not going on a trip? Use any list on its own.
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