DJFLIX2009 wrote: really anything but true crime
I tend to find an author that I like then read anything I can get my hands on from them. Here are some authors and titles that I have really enjoyed. While none of these are mountaineering books, many of them have travel or foreign locations as a central theme.
Ernest Hemmingway
A Moveable Feast
The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
John Steinbeck
Cannery Roy
Travels With Charley
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Log From the Sea of Cortez
Edward Abbey
Desert Solataire
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Black Sun
Fire on the Mountain
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Desolation Angels
The Subterraneans
Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
The Pumphouse Gang
The Kandy Colored Tangerine Flake Streamline Babby
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flack Catchers
The Right Stuff
The Purple Decades
The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Man in Full
I am Charlotte Simmons
Tom Robbins
Another Roadside Attraction
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Still Life with Woodpecker
Jitterbug Pefume
Skinny Legs And All
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Villa Incognito
Patricia Highsmith Ok, it is crime, but not true crime
Strangers on a Train
The Talented Mr Ripley
Ripley Underground
Ripley's Game
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
Ripley Under Water
Found in the Street
The Price of Salt
That should keep you going for some time.