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
Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert
Neon Gods
Electric IdolFrom Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper
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
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
TRAVEL WITH BOOKS
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
The Books of Jacob Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadLess by Andrew Sean Greer
Less is LostDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient ExpressMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
1Q84 Kafka on the Shore The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle The Strange LibraryThe 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
Alice Isn’t DeadGoblin by Josh Malerman
It by Stephen King
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
American GodsThe Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED DURING THIS EPISODE
And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin
Paper Towns by John Green
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