2,000th Post - 100 Armchair Travel Books

Lately, I've been travelling from the comfort of my sofa to many a distant land and time. In my 2,000th post on my blog, I decided to cull 100 titles of books that will take you to a different place. Of course, all books take you places you may have never been. This compilation really is just a list of 100 suggested reads in that light. Instead of only listing travelogues, I have included books that immerse you in another locale and another historical moment. This was a time-consuming post to explore (after 15 years of blogging), so instead of listing the books in categories by places, I've just listed them in roughly reverse chronological order to when I read them. Whatever your particular interests (I'm heavy on Victorian England in this listing), I hope you'll submerge yourself in something new:

1. There and Back - travelogue coffee table book - various death-defying climbs
2. Neither Here Nor There - travelogue - Europe
3. Every Day in Tuscany - memoir - Tuscany/Italy
4. With Love from London - novel - London, England
5. Notes from a Small Island - travelogue - England
6. The World Played Chess - novel - Vietnam War
7. Facing the Mountain - history - WWII (internment camps)
8. The Last Bookshop in London - novel - WWII (London)
9. It Happened at the Fair - novel - 1893 Chicago World's Fair
10. Green Hills of Africa - memoir - Africa
11. Twilight at the World of Tomorrow - history - 1939 New York World's Fair
12. The River of Doubt - history - the Amazon (the River of Doubt in Brazil)
13. The Library Book -  history - 1986 San Francisco Library fire
14. We Dream of Space - middle grade novel - 1986 Challenger mission
15. Destiny of the Republic - history - 1880s America, President Garfield
16. The Five - history - Victorian London, Jack the Ripper
17. A Moveable Feast - memoir - Paris
18. For the Love of Europe - travelogue - Europe
19. The Splendid and the Vile - history - WWII England, Winston Churchill
20. The Wicked Boy - history - Victorian England
21. Walking Home - travelogue - The Pennine Way, England
22. Surprised by Oxford - memoir - Oxford, England
23. The Lost Girls of Paris - novel - London/Paris in WWII
24. An Ocean, an Airplane, and Two Countries Full of Kisses - memoir - America/Italy
25. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey - history - Highclere Castle, England
26. All the Flowers in Paris - novel - Paris
27. On the Wings of Heroes - middle grade novel - small town USA WWII
28. Out of the Dust - middle grade novel - American "Dust Bowl" in the Depression
29. Love and Other Consolation Prizes - novel - 1909 Seattle World's Fair
30. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - novel - Auschwitz concentration camp
31. Little Heathens - memoir - Iowa in Depression
32. Last Christmas in Paris - novel - Paris
33. The Chilbury Ladies' Choir - novel - WWII England
34. Hiking Through - memoir/travelogue - Appalachian trail
35. Nights of Rain and Stars - novel - Greek seaside village
36. Prairie Fires - history - early American prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
37. Victoria - history - Victorian England, Queen Victoria
38. P.S. from Paris - novel - Paris
39. The London Eye Mystery - middle grade novel - London
40. Sisterchicks Go Brit! - novel - England
41. London - history - London
42. The Light in the Ruins - novel - WWII Italy
43. Three Weeks in Paris - novel - Paris
44. The Secret Life of Bees - novel - 1960s Southern US
45. The Girl from the Train - novel - WWII Germany
46. The Nightingale - novel - WWII France
47. Burial Rites - novel - 1829 Iceland
48. Revolution - young adult novel - revolutionary France
49. The Summer Before the War - novel - WWII, Rye, England
50. The Road to Little Dribbling - travelogue - England
51. A Faraway Island - middle grade novel - 1939 Sweden
52. The Invention of Wings - novel - 19th century Charleston, South Carolina
53. Wonderland Creek - novel - 1936 Appalachian Kentucky
54. A Night Divided - middle grade novel - Berlin Wall
55. The Carnival at Bray - young adult novel - 1990s Bray, Ireland
56. A Metropolitan Murder - history - 1860s London
57. The Victorian City - history - Victorian London
58. A Girl Named Zippy - memoir - small town Indiana
59. Dirty Old London - history - Victorian London
60. Kidnapped by River Rats - history - Salvation Army in 1880s London
61. Dead Wake - history - WWI, sinking of the Lusitania
62. Revolution - middle grade novel - 1964 Freedom Summer Mississippi
63. The Boys in the Boat - history - 1936 Berlin Olympics
64. Lily's Crossing - middle grade novel - 1940s United States
65. Criss Cross - middle grade novel - 1960s United States
66. Countdown - middle grade novel - 1960s American Cuban Missile Crisis
67. Number the Stars - middle grade novel - WWII Sweden
68. The Songs of Willow Frost - novel - 1920s & 30s Seattle, Washington
69. A Northern Light - young adult novel - 1906 New York murder
70. Out of the Easy - young adult novel - 1950s New Orleans
71. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - novel - Southern tip of England
72. One Thousand White Women - novel - 1854 Fort Laramie Peace Conference
73. All the Light We Cannot See - novel - WWII France
74. Tallgrass - novel - WWII Japanese-American internment camps
75. The Dressmaker - novel - sinking of the Titanic
76. Tara Road - novel - Dublin
77. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - novel - English walking tour
78. A Week in Winter - novel - Stoneybridge, Ireland
79. Blackmoore - novel - 1820s Northern England
80. The View from Castle Rock - memoir - early Irish immigrants
81. Under a Flaming Sky - history - 1894 Hinckley, Minnesota fire
82. Unbroken - history - Japanese POW camp WWII survival story
83. In the Garden of Beasts - history - Hitler's Berlin
84. Yielded Captive - novel - jungles of Peru
85. Whitethorn Woods - novel - Rossmore, Ireland
86. The House I Loved - novel - 1860s Paris
87. Breaking the Code - history - the Japanese Katakama Code
88. Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes - young adult novel - England/Europe
89. Minding Frankie - novel - Dublin
90. The Help - novel - 1960s Jackson, Mississippi
91. The Pleasing Hour - novel - Paris
92. The Postmistress - novel - WWII New England town
93. Year of Wonders - novel - 1666 rural England plague
94. The Book Thief - novel - WWII Germany
95. Ruby's Imagine - young adult novel - New Orleans Hurricane Katrina
96. The Case of Madeleine Smith - history - Victorian Scotland
97. The Aurora County All-Stars - middle grade novel - small town Mississippi
98. The Weight of Heaven - novel - India
99. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - novel - WWII Guernsey
100. Three Weeks With My Brother - memoir - trip around the world