- The Bears Ears, a human history of America's most endangered wilderness, David Roberts
- Picnic in Provence, a memoir with recipes, Elizabeth Bard
- Bowing to elephants, tales of a travel junkie, Mag Dimond
- Time song, journeys in search of a submerged land, Julia Blackburn ; with drawings by Enrique Brinkmann
- Strays, a lost cat, a homeless man, and their journey across America, Britt Collins ; with a foreword by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- The outlaw ocean, journeys across the last untamed frontier, by Ian Urbina
- In Europe's shadow, two cold wars and a thirty-year journey through Romania and beyond, Robert D. Kaplan
- Once we were sisters, a memoir, Sheila Kohler
- Where the deer and the antelope play, the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside, Nick Offerman
- Spying on the South, an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz
- Walking the Americas, 1,800 miles, eight countries, and one incredible journey from Mexico to Colombia, Levison Wood
- A course called Scotland, searching the home of golf for the secret to its game, Tom Coyne
- A Tokyo romance, a memoir, Ian Buruma
- Icebound, shipwrecked at the edge of the world, Andrea Pitzer
- The seventies, a photographic journey, Ira M. Resnick ; foreword by Robert Klein
- On freedom road, bicycle explorations and reckonings on the Underground Railroad, David Goodrich
- The monk of Mokha, Dave Eggers
- The sun is a compass, a 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds, Caroline Van Hemert
- An odyssey, a father, a son, and an epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
- Following Caesar, from Rome to Constantinople, the pathways that planted the seeds of empire, John Keahey
- A course called America, fifty states, five thousand fairways, and the search for the great American golf course, Tom Coyne
- The Not-Quite States of America, dispatches from the territories and other far-flung outposts of the USA, Doug Mack
- The Amur River, between Russia and China, Colin Thubron
- Seven at sea, why a New York City family cast off convention for a life-changing year on a sailboat, Erik Orton & Emily Orton
- Scribbling the cat, travels with an African soldier, Alexandra Fuller
- A course called America, fifty states, five thousand fairways, and the search for the great American golf course, Tom Coyne
- The Oregon Trail, a new American journey, Rinker Buck
- The best American travel writing 2004, edited and with an introduction by Pico Iyer ; Jason Wilson, series editor
- An Arabian journey, one man's quest through the heart of the Middle East, Levison Wood
- The nine lives of Pakistan, dispatches from a precarious state, Declan Walsh
- Chasing plants, journeys with a botanist through rainforests, swamps, and mountains, Chris Thorogood
- Smile when you're lying, confessions of a rogue travel writer, Chuck Thompson
- Easy beauty, a memoir, Chloé Cooper Jones
- The best American travel writing, edited and with an introduction by William T. Vollmann, 2012
- Around the world in eighty wines, exploring wine one country at a time, Mike Veseth
- Flâneuse, women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, Lauren Elkin
- A year in the wilderness, bearing witness in the Boundary Waters, Amy and Dave Freeman
- Spying on the South, an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz
- Better living through birding, notes from a Black man in the natural world, by Christian Cooper
- The art of the wasted day, Patricia Hampl
- The geography of genius, a search for the world's most creative places from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley, Eric Weiner
- Owls of the eastern ice, a quest to find and save the world's largest owl, Jonathan C. Slaght
- Sixty, a diary of my sixty-first year : the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?, Ian Brown
- Brave the wild river, the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon, Melissa L Sevigny
- Paradise in chains, the Bounty Mutiny and the founding of Australia, Diana Preston
- The last ride of the Pony Express, my 2,000-mile horseback journey into the Old West, Will Grant
- All the way to the tigers, a memoir, Mary Morris
- The return, fathers, sons, and the land in between, Hisham Matar
- France, an adventure history, Graham Robb
- The Alps, a human history from Hannibal to Heidi and beyond, Stephen O'Shea