NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #27 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
As we're all entering our second month stuck wherever we are, I thought I'd share some of my favorite books about exploring a place, either physically or historically—not travelogues per se, but journeys through the history of a place:
1) Rinker Buck, in addition to having the perfect name for writing a book that involves traveling cross-country in a wagon, actually did just that for his hugely surprising history THE OREGON TRAIL: bookshop.org/books/the-oreg…
2) Speaking of cross-country journeys, Sarah Vowell's ASSASSINATION VACATION is a delightful (and fast) read about presidents and their assassins: bookshop.org/books/assassin…
3) Charles King (@charleskingdc) wrote a fascinating history of the most fascinating hotel in the world's most fascinating city, MIDNIGHT AT THE PERA PALACE, about Istanbul and the rise of modern Turkey: bookshop.org/books/midnight…
4) And speaking of the meeting of east and west, if you've never read Orhan Pamuk's ISTANBUL, it's stunning and evocative and beautifully written: bookshop.org/books/istanbul…
5) Lastly, if I ever have to choose to go on a family vacation with another family, I'd pick Nathan Hodge (@nohdoge) and Sharon Weinberger (@weinbergersa) who traveled the country for A NUCLEAR FAMILY VACATION: powells.com/book/-97815969…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are your favorite books journeying through the history of a place? What are your favorite travelogues? What are your favorite indie bookstores? Share! #avidreadersunite
