This blog will be a space to recommend mainly novels to read before you travel somewhere. A guide book can only tell you so much. A novel can tell you how life was in a certain time in the place you are going to. For example, reading The Sun Also Rises can tell you how Paris in the 20s was in a way a guide book could never convey. I will try to stick to less obvious books. Hopefully these suggestions will give you a new picture of the trip you are embarking on, suggest landmarks to find, or a way of making an imagined world concrete.
Some of the books will be about places I have visited myself and so I will try to describe my experiences a little bit, but for the most part, I will leave it up to you to discover the world inside these novels.
The way this works is that I post about single books. Each book will be tagged. If you are going to Europe, you can click the “Europe” tag and see all the books tagged for that place.
Thank you for visiting “To Read Before You Go.” Happy reading and Bon Voyage.
