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Omaha Reading Challenge 2022: Read a Book About Travel

Are summer scaries getting you down? Are you feeling starved for a vacation? There are endless locales, both fictional and factual, to visit via train, plane or particle accelerator! Escape with a good book featuring stories about journeys or adventures to complete this challenge. OPL librarians have created a series of reading challenges to help you stretch beyond your comfort zone. This list features titles suggested for you to complete the "Read a book about travel" challenge. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

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  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    Book[Toronto, Ontario, Canada] : Hanover Square Press, 2020. — FICTION Kawaguchi 2020
  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    Book[New York] : Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — FICTION Sager 2021
  • The Amur River

    Between Russia and China

    Thubron, Colin, 1939-
    Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — 915.7 Thubron 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2019. — FICTION Guillory 2019
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Jove, 2022. — FICTION Kann 2022
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2021. — FICTION Cousens 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York, NY : St. Martin's Griffin, 2021. — FICTION Doller 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — FICTION Giacco 2022
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2016] — FICTION Moyes 2016
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books, Viking, 2015. — FICTION Bowen 2015
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2019] — FICTION Serpell 2019
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    Book©2021 — FICTION Lee 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York, NY : Saga Press, 2019. — SCIENCE FICTION El-Mohtar 2019
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — FICTION Barenbaum 2022
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2021] — SCIENCE FICTION Barry 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2021] — FICTION Jeng 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2018] — 915.804 Harris 2018
  • The Emerald Mile

    the Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Though the Heart of the Grand Canyon

    Fedarko, Kevin
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Scribner, c2013. — 979.13 Fedarko 2013
  • Medallion Status

    True Stories From Secret Rooms

    Hodgman, John,
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    Book[New York] : Viking, [2019] — B Hodgman 2019
  • Eighty Days

    Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-making Race Around the World

    Goodman, Matthew
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, c2013. — 910.4 Goodman 2013