The Book Sense Travel Literature Bestseller List

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Based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide during the eight-week period ending May 9, 2006.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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The Book Sense Travel Literature Bestseller List

1.

A Year in the World
Frances Mayes, Broadway, $26, 0767910052

2.

1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Patricia Schultz, Workman, $18.95, 0761104844

3.

Assassination Vacation
Sarah Vowell, S&S, $14, 074326004X

4.

A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767902521

5.

The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian
Phil Doran, Gotham, $15, 1592401899

6.

Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin, Penguin, $15, 0143037110

7.

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
Anna Quindlen, National Geographic, $10.95, 0792242076

8.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig, Harper Perennial, $13.95, 0060839872

9.

We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light
John Baxter, Harper Perennial, $13.95, 0060832886

10.

Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic
Redmond O'Hanlon, Vintage, $14.95, 1400078105

11.

New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings From the City
Andrei Codrescu, Algonquin, $14, 1565125053

12.

Almost French
Sarah Turnbull, Gotham, $13, 1592400825

13.

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 0385494785

14.

A Year in Japan
Kate T. Williamson, Princeton Architectural, $19.95, 1568985401

15.

A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
Marlena De Blasi, Ballantine, $13.95, 0345481097

16.

Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
Alice Steinbach, Random House, $14.95, 0375758453

17.

In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 0767903862

18.

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
Bruce Feiler, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 0060838639

19.

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke, Alaska Northwest, $14.95, 0882405136

20.

Skeletons on the Zahara
Dean King, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316159352

21.

Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes, Broadway, $15, 0767916069

22.

Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Linda Lawrence Hunt, Anchor, $14, 1400079934

23.

Phaic Tan: Sunstroke on a Shoestring
Santo Cilauro, et al., Chronicle, $13.95, 0811853659

24.

Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler, HarperCollins, $26.95, 0060826584

25.

Tales of a Female Nomad
Rita Golden Gelman, Three Rivers, $14, 0609809547