71: Travel with Books!

Madeline joins Ryan and Jo this month to talk about the ways that books let you travel without having to go anywhere! From travel memoirs to road trips in fiction to magical fantasy worlds to creating real life trips visiting literary locations (2025 Gibson's World Tour, anyone?), your hosts have a ton of recommendations for using books as a means to escape. Books Mentioned During This Episode Ryan, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/ryan-elizabeth-clark Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Rosebud by Paul Cornell  Spear by Nicola Griffith  These Prisoning Hills by Christopher Rowe A Mirror Mended by Alix E HarrowA Spindle Splintered Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert Neon Gods  Electric Idol From Bad to Cursed by Lana HarperPayback’s a Witch Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson Malice by Heather Walter Road of Bones by Christopher Golden Such A Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester Ghoul n’ the Cape by Josh Malerman (Limited) Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow  Listen to Ryan's Interview with Bethany C. Morrow!  Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds Jo, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/jo Devil House by John Darnielle Wolf in White Van All These Bodies by Kendare Blake Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Beowulf by Seamus Heaney Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley Medea by Euripides Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand  The Anthony Burgess Translation (Backordered, hard to get) Madeline, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/madeline Maus by Art Spiegelman On Writing by Stephen King The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend Medea by Euripides Educated by Tara Westover Rabbits by Terry Miles TRAVEL WITH BOOKS Walking to Listen by Andrew Forsthoefel Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Girl on a Motorcycle by Amy Novesky Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire by Marianne O’Connor Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The Nepal Chronicles by Dan Szczesny Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Flights by Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Less by Andrew Sean Greer Less is Lost Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie After Dark by Haruki Murakami 1Q84 Kafka on the Shore The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle The Strange Library The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith Milkman by Anna Burns The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink Alice Isn’t Dead Goblin by Josh Malerman It by Stephen King Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman American Gods The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED DURING THIS EPISODE And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin Paper Towns by John Green OTHER LINKSJack of All Graves Book Club The Storygraph Shop The Laydown Gibson's Bookstore Website Purchase Gift Certificates!  Browse our Website by Category! Donate to the Bookstore! Check out our Events Calendar! Gibson's InstagramThe Laydown InstagramFacebook TwitterTikTok Libro.fm (Our Audiobook Platform) Use the code LAYDOWN for 3 audiobooks for the price of 1! Email us at [email protected]