Edward Stanford Travel Writing 2024

Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. Includes Stanford Travel Book of the Year and Fiction with a Sense of Place.

Updated September 19, 2024
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The covenant of water : a novel
Verghese, Abraham
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in...
Dust child : a novel
Nguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. From the bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the...
The book of fire : a novel
Lefteri, Christy
Paper Book
"A tender depiction of loss and healing that raises questions about guilt and blame in the age of climate change."--People "As with The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Lefteri transports the reader to a once lush and now destroyed world."--Kristin Hannah, #1 New...
Roman stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR * The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth * Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and...
Wounded Tigris : a river journey through the cradle of civilization
McCarron, Leon
Paper Book
A fascinating journey down the Tigris River--the lifeblood of human civilization--in search of history and hope. Starting at the source of this storied river, where ancient Mesopotamians and Assyrian kings had their images carved into stone, explorer Leon McCarron and his small...

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