- The outlaw ocean, journeys across the last untamed frontier, by Ian Urbina
- Time song, journeys in search of a submerged land, Julia Blackburn ; with drawings by Enrique Brinkmann
- The same river twice, a memoir of dirtbag backpackers, bomb shelters, and bad travel, Pam Mandel
- A taste of Paris, a history of the Parisian love affair with food, David Downie
- Yang du shi, Liang Qichao, Hu Shi deng zhu ; Sun Liming bian
- Café Neandertal, excavating our past in one of Europe's most ancient places, Beebe Bahrami
- The Bears Ears, a human history of America's most endangered wilderness, David Roberts
- Footsteps, from Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, literary pilgrimages around the world, The New York Times ; introduction by Monica Drake
- Smoke and ashes, opium's hidden histories, Amitav Ghosh
- Icebound, shipwrecked at the edge of the world, Andrea Pitzer
- Elixir, in the valley at the end of time, Kapka Kassabova
- Feral, losing myself and finding my way in America's national parks, Emily Pennington
- Disappointment River, finding and losing the Northwest Passage, Brian Castner
- Leave only footprints, Conor Knighton
- The road to Sleeping Dragon, learning China from the ground up, Michael Meyer
- Lion, Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose
- A sailor, a chicken, an incredible voyage, the seafaring adventures of Guirec and Monique, Guirec Soudée ; with Véronique de Bure ; translated by David Warriner
- Once we were sisters, a memoir, Sheila Kohler
- The Road to Little Dribbling, adventures of an American in Britain, Bill Bryson
- Falling into place, a story of love, Poland, and the making of a travel writer, Thomas Swick ; foreword by Pico Iyer
- Following Caesar, from Rome to Constantinople, the pathways that planted the seeds of empire, John Keahey
- 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
- Scribbling the cat, travels with an African soldier, Alexandra Fuller
- The backpacker lifecycle, a traveller's perspective through 20 years and 45 countries, by Brendyn Zachary
- The hen who sailed around the world, a true story, by Guirec Soudée
- A course called America, fifty states, five thousand fairways, and the search for the great American golf course, Tom Coyne
- 江城, River town, 彼得 海斯勒著 ; 李雪顺譯
- Clanlands, whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with Charlotte Reather ; [foreword by Diana Gabaldon]
- So long as it's wild, standing strong after my famous walk across America, Barbara Jenkins
- In search of Amrit Kaur, a lost princess and her vanished world, Livia Manera Sambuy ; translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz
- On freedom road, bicycle explorations and reckonings on the Underground Railroad, David Goodrich
- The land between two rivers, writing in an age of refugees, Tom Sleigh
- The monk of Mokha, Dave Eggers
- Our towns, a 100,000-mile journey into the heart of America, James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
- An odyssey, a father, a son, and an epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
- Raw dog, the naked truth about hot dogs, Jamie Loftus
- Walking the Americas, 1,800 miles, eight countries, and one incredible journey from Mexico to Colombia, Levison Wood
- Living the vanlife, on the road toward sustainability, community & joy, Noami J. Grevemberg
- A course called Scotland, searching the home of golf for the secret to its game, Tom Coyne
- The best American travel writing 2020, edited and with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane ; Jason Wilson, series editor
- An Arabian journey, one man's quest through the heart of the Middle East, Levison Wood
- Killing it, an education, Camas Davis
- Lands of lost borders, a journey on the Silk Road, Kate Harris
- The nine lives of Pakistan, dispatches from a precarious state, Declan Walsh
- The best American travel writing 2018, edited and with an introduction by Cheryl Strayed ; Jason Wilson, series editor
- They went, the art and craft of travel writing, Ian Frazier ... [and others] ; edited by William Zinsser
- White sands, experiences from the outside world, Geoff Dyer
- The last resort, a chronicle of paradise, profit, and peril at the beach, Sarah Stodola
- Where the deer and the antelope play, the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside, Nick Offerman