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The Indie Travel Literature Bestseller List
Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 8, 2018.
1. Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America
James Fallows, Deborah Fallows, Pantheon, $28.95, 9781101871843
2. Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
Mark Adams, Dutton, $28, 9781101985106
3. Barbarian Days
William Finnegan, Penguin, $17, 9780143109396
4. Atlas Obscura
Joshua Foer, et al., Workman, $35, 9780761169086
5. Adrift: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
Tami Oldham Ashcraft, Dey Street, $15.99, 9780062868206
6. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101873441
7. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
Scott Jurek, Little Brown, $28, 9780316433792
8. On Trails
Robert Moor, S&S, $16, 9781476739236
9. A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $15.99, 9781101905494
10. The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $28.95, 9781101947319
11. Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Andrew Forsthoefel, Bloomsbury, $18, 9781632867018
12. The Lost City of Z
David Grann, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525434658
13. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060589462
14. Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
Steven Callahan, Mariner, $14.95, 9780618257324
15. In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $16.99, 9780767903868
16. Figures in a Landscape: People and Places
Paul Theroux, Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780544870307
17. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $16.95, 9780804172714
18. The Oregon Trail
Rinker Buck, S&S, $16.99, 9781451659177
19. Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through the World’s Most Dangerous Country
Tim Butcher, Grove Press, $16, 9780802144331
20. Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
Jeffrey Gettleman, Harper, $15.99, 9780062284105
21. Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon’s Relentless Madre de Dios
Holly Fitzgerald, Vintage, $16, 9780525432777
22. Tales of a Female Nomad
Rita Golden Gelman, Three Rivers, $14, 9780609809549
23. Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Mark Adams, Plume, $16, 9780452297982
24. Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
Roz Chast, Bloomsbury USA, $28, 9781620403211
25. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit, Penguin, $17, 9780143037248