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 Harrow

• A Spindle Splintered

Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert

Neon Gods 

From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper

• Payback’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

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

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

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

Goblin by Josh Malerman

It by Stephen King

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin

Paper Towns by John Green

Jack of All Graves Book Club

The Storygraph

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