TripFiction’s travel reads
TripFiction published its top 30 literary‑tourism titles this week — a practical list for readers who want location‑matched novels to read before they travel. (The list was promoted on social this week and is trending among literary tourists.) (x.com)
TripFiction posted "Team TripFiction’s top 30 titles for LITERARY TOURISM" on May 18, 2024 as a staff‑compiled blog list. (tripfiction.com) The piece says the site was inspired at launch by Shantaram, The Beach and Memoirs of a Geisha and notes the project began about 14 years earlier. (tripfiction.com) The published selections explicitly include Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water (listed with India/Kerala as its setting) and Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees (a Ukrainian novel available in English in a translation by Boris Dralyuk). (tripfiction.com) TripFiction presents the list “in no particular order” and states the editors expect to update the selection again in the near future. (tripfiction.com) TripFiction says its searchable database contains thousands of novels and travel memoirs covering more than 2,800 countries, regions and cities worldwide. (tripfiction.com) The site points readers to its social channels via a Linktree and maintains active profiles on platforms including TikTok (handle @tripfiction) and Bluesky (tripfiction.bsky.social). (linktr.ee) Verghese’s The Covenant of Water — one of the list entries — was selected for Oprah’s Book Club in May 2023 and has been widely noted as a bestseller since publication. (oprah.com)
