The Indie Travel Literature Bestseller List

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The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Indie Travel Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending June 30, 2019.

1. Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz, Penguin Press, $30, 9781101980286

2. Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
Mark Adams, Dutton, $16, 9781101985120

3. Horizon
Barry Lopez, Knopf, $30, 9780394585826

4. Bella Figura: How to Live, Love, and Eat the Italian Way
Kamin Mohammadi, Vintage, $16, 9780804173292

5. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
Scott Jurek, Little, Brown Spark, $16.99, 9780316433808

6. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Tembi Locke, S&S, $26.99, 9781501187650

7. Atlas Obscura
Joshua Foer, et al., Workman, $35, 9780761169086

8. My Twenty-five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
Peter Mayle, Vintage, $16, 9781101974285

9. The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971444

10. Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border
Porter Fox, Norton, $16.95, 9780393357097

11. See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
Frances Mayes, Crown, $27, 9780451497697

12. Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $15, 9780385486804

13. Barbarian Days
William Finnegan, Penguin, $17, 9780143109396

14. Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
Pico Iyer, Knopf, $25.95, 9780451493934

15. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz, Vintage, $17, 9780679758334

16. Strange Tales of World Travel
Gina Gaille, Scott Gaille, Travelers’ Tales Guides, $16.99, 9781609521691

17. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101873441

18. An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East
Levison Wood, Atlantic Monthly Press, $27, 9780802147325

19. The Salt Path: A Memoir
Raynor Winn, Penguin, $17, 9780143134114

20. On Trails
Robert Moor, S&S, $16, 9781476739236

21. Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
James Fallows, Deborah Fallows, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525432449

22. Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
Roz Chast, Bloomsbury, $18, 9781632869777

23. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty, Landis Blair (Illus.), Norton, $15.95, 9780393356281

24. A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $15.99, 9781101905494

25. The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas: Illustrated Adventures Along the West Coast’s Historic Highways
Chandler O’Leary, Sasquatch Books, $24.95, 9781632171740