- Footsteps, from Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, literary pilgrimages around the world, The New York Times ; introduction by Monica Drake
- That wild country, an epic journey through the past, present, and future of America's public lands, Mark Kenyon
- South to America, a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation, Imani Perry
- A guest at the feast, essays, Colm Tóibín
- At home in the world, reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks, Tsh Oxenreider
- The outlaw ocean, journeys across the last untamed frontier, by Ian Urbina
- Texas blood, seven generations among the outlaws, ranchers, Indians, missionaries, soldiers, and smugglers of the borderlands, Roger D. Hodge
- The new Paris, the people, places & ideas fueling a movement, Lindsey Tramuta ; photography by Charissa Fay
- Every day the river changes, four weeks down the Magdalena, Jordan Salama
- An odyssey, a father, a son, and an epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
- A country between, making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide, Stephanie Saldana
- New Orleans, a writer's city, T.R. Johnson
- Owls of the eastern ice, a quest to find and save the world's largest owl, Jonathan C. Slaght
- Back over there, one American time-traveler, 100 years since the Great War, 500 miles of battle-scarred French countryside, and too many trenches, shells, legends and ghosts to count, Richard Rubin
- A country between, making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide, Stephanie Saldaña
- Sixty, a diary of my sixty-first year : the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?, Ian Brown
- Shanghai grand, forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world, Taras Grescoe
- Travels with George, in search of Washington and his legacy, Nathaniel Philbrick
- Schadenfreude, a love story, me, the Germans, and 20 years of attempted transformations, unfortunate miscommunications, and humiliating situations that only they have words for, Rebecca Schuman
- Pacific, silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers, Simon Winchester
- The hour of land, a personal topography of America's national parks, Terry Tempest Williams
- This road I ride, sometimes it takes losing everything to find yourself, Juliana Buhring
- Voyager, travel writings, Russell Banks
- A beginner's guide to Japan, observations and provocations, by Pico Iyer
- Following Caesar, from Rome to Constantinople, the pathways that planted the seeds of empire, John Keahey
- The best American travel writing 2018, edited and with an introduction by Cheryl Strayed ; Jason Wilson, series editor
- Texas blood, seven generations among the outlaws, ranchers, Indians, missionaries, soldiers, and smugglers of the borderlands, by Roger D. Hodge
- Strays, a lost cat, a homeless man, and their journey across America, Britt Collins ; with a foreword by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- Imagine a city, a pilot's journey across the urban world, Mark Vanhoenacker
- The only kayak, a journey into the heart of Alaska, Kim Heacox
- Smoke and ashes, opium's hidden histories, Amitav Ghosh
- Stalking God, my unorthodox search for something to believe in, by Anjali Kumar
- A hole in the wind, a climate scientist's bicycle journey across the United States, David Goodrich
- Kings of the Yukon, one summer paddling across the far north, Adam Weymouth
- Darwin's first theory, exploring Darwin's quest to find a theory of the earth, Rob Wesson
- Easy beauty, a memoir, Chloé Cooper Jones
- Endangered Edens, exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico, Marty Essen
- The yellow envelope, one gift, three rules, and a life-changing journey around the world, Kim Dinan
- The last ride of the Pony Express, my 2,000-mile horseback journey into the Old West, Will Grant
- The art of the wasted day, Patricia Hampl
- Driving the Green Book, a road trip through the living history of Black resistance, Alvin Hall, with Karl Weber
- The High Sierra, a love story, Kim Stanley Robinson
- The first signs, unlocking the mysteries of the world's oldest symbols, Genevieve von Petzinger
- Eating Korea, reports on a culinary renaissance, Graham Holliday
- The far land, 200 years of murder, mania, and mutiny in the South Pacific, Brandon Presser
- Behind Putin's curtain, friendships and misadventures inside Russia, Stephan Orth ; translation by Jamie McIntosh
- Patagonian road, a year alone through Latin America, Kate McCahill
- The road to Little Dribbling, adventures of an American in Britain, Bill Bryson
- To shake the sleeping self, a journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a quest for a life with no regret, Jedidiah Jenkins
- Island home, a landscape memoir, Tim Winton