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Top Travel Literature

1. Wild: From Lost to Found on the

Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed

2. Tulip Season: A Mitra Basu

Mystery, Bharti Kirchner

3. Dreaming in Chinese:

Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love

and Language, Deborah Fellows

4. Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, Dorothy Wickenden

5. State of Wonder, Ann Patchett

Top Guidebooks

1. Maui Revealed: The Ultimate

Guidebook, Andrew Doughty

2. Moon Handbook Oregon

3. Frommer's Prague Day by Day

4. Lonely Planet Myanmar (Burma)

11th edition

5. Olympic Peninsula Day Hiking,

Craig Romano