Novel Travels

Novel Travels My mission is to inspire people to explore the world through the literature they read.

I am dedicated to creating individualized itineraries to the destinations clients dream about when they read about them in novels.

08/08/2026

What book made you want to travel? For me, it was one I’d finished long before I arrived.

I read The Bronze Horseman years before I ever stood in St. Petersburg. But the story stayed with me, and when I finally walked those streets, the city and the book folded into one another. The bridges, the river, the light. All of it heavier and more alive because I’d carried Tatiana and Alexander there with me.

Standing on that corner, I had one clear thought: I can’t be the only one who wants to travel this way.

That was the beginning of Novel Travels. The belief that a story changes how a place feels under your feet, and that the right book in the right city is its own kind of journey.

Every book on this list is set somewhere you can actually stand.That’s the whole idea behind Novel Travels. I build trip...
08/07/2026

Every book on this list is set somewhere you can actually stand.

That’s the whole idea behind Novel Travels. I build trips around the real places behind the stories, the libraries, the bridges, the cafés, the streets these characters actually walked. Paris has inspired more unforgettable fiction than almost anywhere on earth, and these nine books are proof.

Save this list, then let’s talk about seeing it in person.

📍 Literary trips to Paris and beyond
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The best travel inspiration isn’t on a map. It’s on your bookshelf.In The Lost Baker of Vienna, Sharon Kurtzman takes re...
08/05/2026

The best travel inspiration isn’t on a map. It’s on your bookshelf.

In The Lost Baker of Vienna, Sharon Kurtzman takes readers to postwar Vienna, where Chana Rosenzweig and her family are trying to rebuild their lives after the Holocaust. Inspired by the author’s own family history, it is a moving story of survival, memory, love, and beginning again.

Vienna may be known for its imperial palaces, grand cafés, and music—but this novel invites us to look beyond its beauty and consider the lives and history held within its streets.

That is what literary travel can do: help us see a destination through the stories that shaped it.

Have you read The Lost Baker of Vienna? Would Vienna be on your literary travel list?

Save this for the next time a book makes you want to pack your bags.

What if you could spend one perfect day living inside a novel?⁠⁠In London, you can. Virginia Woolf gave the city its mos...
08/04/2026

What if you could spend one perfect day living inside a novel?⁠
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In London, you can. Virginia Woolf gave the city its most famous morning in Mrs Dalloway, and it's still the best day to borrow.⁠
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Read the novel first. Stay in Bloomsbury, where Woolf lived and wrote. Browse the shelves the city's readers actually shop. See the manuscripts at the British Library, a novel before it was ever a book. Then walk Clarissa's route from Westminster to Bond Street, and end the day the way she begins it, buying the flowers yourself.⁠
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Save this one for London. And tell me: whose city should we live inside next?⁠
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There are books you enjoy, and then there are books you start handing to everyone you love. For me, that is The Unselect...
08/02/2026

There are books you enjoy, and then there are books you start handing to everyone you love. For me, that is The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion.
I found the series only a few months ago and fell completely. Beth Brower writes characters so witty and warm that you close each volume already missing them, and I finished one book and immediately reached for the next.
I loved them enough to send a set to my dear friend Lawrence so he could read them too. He met Beth in London and brought my copy to her to sign, which somehow makes it mean even more.
If you have not met Emma yet, begin with Volume One. Then clear your calendar.
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Read at your own risk.Every book in here did the same thing to me. It picked a place and left it inside me, and I’ve bee...
07/31/2026

Read at your own risk.

Every book in here did the same thing to me. It picked a place and left it inside me, and I’ve been carrying the longing ever since.

The tea country of Sri Lanka. The chalk caves under Champagne. Charleston’s old houses and the ghosts that come with them. Barcelona, Oxford, Bali, Lisbon, a green Welsh estate, and a Victorian London I’ve walked so many times in my head I could draw you a map.

Some people travel and then read about where they’ve been. I read, and then I have to go.

If that’s you too, you’re in the right place.

Tell me the one that did it to you. The book that made you need to see a place you’d never thought about before. I’ll be in the comments traveling and then flying back here and April I was in UK Italy UK then then I went. I don’t know I was somewhere else in Europe then I was in Austin Texas then I was in New York that we were in Puerto Rico and then I got two months. I’m like I don’t wanna get on a plane I don’t wanna go easy. I guess we’ll be those kind of places for Beach the Caribbean, the British people especially the British a lot of the other you can drive on your side they drive on the wrong side of the road so a lot of of the islands are like that and you know so many of them were British colonies for so long so there’s so many Barbados is a huge British place to go and the only one that’s in Lucia because it has those mountains like a very narrow mountain so that’s really pretty tropical. I live 5 miles from officially the same Beach I’m getting I mean there are Turks and Caicos is really cold of water. Incredible but you’re on a beach you’re going to dinner. You’re hanging by the pool and it’s just a relaxing. I don’t understand why so many words come all that way that I actually.

07/30/2026

I found the coolest bookstore in Antwerp!

07/30/2026

Every book in this shop comes with a bottle.

His rule is simple. He reads the book first, then finds the bottle that fits. Sometimes it’s the plot. Sometimes it’s a character’s name. Sometimes it’s just the mood of the story.

He showed me one called Why Mommy Drinks matched to a holiday bottle, and I laughed out loud. Sherlock Holmes sits beside a smoky Islay Scotch. A Belgian novel meets a Belgian wine.

This is exactly what I look for when I travel. Not the biggest shop or the most famous one, but the one with a real point of view.

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Found it on a table at Luddites Books & Wine, a bookshop and wine bar in Antwerp with no Wi-Fi and no interest in the mo...
07/29/2026

Found it on a table at Luddites Books & Wine, a bookshop and wine bar in Antwerp with no Wi-Fi and no interest in the modern world.

I already own every Emma M. Lion at home. Bought this one anyway, entirely for the map. St Crispian’s laid out street by street, Traitors Road and Whereabouts Lane and the church exactly where it should be.

There is no sensible reason to buy a book you already own, and a very good one to buy the edition with a whole world folded inside the cover.

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