Our Top Travel Books for Women, From

Our favourite books to inspire future travel 

By Carolyn Ray 

As 2023 comes to a close, our book club team has been reflecting on the books we’ve read over the four years in the JourneyWoman Book Club. Together, we’ve read 40 books and travelled around the world many times over, with stops in Ukraine, South America, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Nigeria and Italy — to name a few. If you’re looking for the perfect holiday read, we’ve compiled a shortlist of the books that touched us, inspired us to travel and taught us something new about the world.

We’d like to thank our partner Tina Hartas at TripFiction, everyone who participated in our book club meetings and the authors who joined us on our webinars, interviews and provided first-hand insights into the cultures, people and countries in their books. A very big thank you to Erin Litteken, Author of The Memory Keeper of Ukraine, Alka Joshi, Author of The Henna Artist, Lisa See, Author of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Joanna Glenn, Author of All My Mothers, Jane Christmas, Author of The Psychic and the Pilgrim, Charity Norman, Author of Remember Me, Laura Maya, Author of Tell Them My Name, and Rebecca Copeland, Author of The Kimono Tattoo. We are so grateful for your support! An even bigger virtual hug to our book club co-hosts, Wendy Brooke and Sally Jane Smith. We hope you’ll join us in 2024 for our first quarterly book club meeting in February 2024. Our featured book is the Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin. (Learn more here)

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Our 12 top travel books for women from the JourneyWoman Book Club

While it’s always difficult to choose favourites, the past two years of the JourneyWoman Book Club have been wonderfully stimulating for our book club members. After much discussion, we’ve listed our top holiday books for women to inspire future travel, based on feedback from our book club meetings.