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Bad Trips
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May 2000
Compiled by Margaret Elwood
from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Fiction
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , The Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe
Margaret Atwood Bodily Harm
K. K. Beck Peril under the Palms
Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky A Distant Episode
Agatha Christie Death on the Nile Murder on the Orient Express
Liza Cody Rift
Jeanne Dams Holy Terror in the Hebrides
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
James Dickey Deliverance
Lewis Q. Dodge The Absolutely True Story- How I Visited Yellowstone Park With the Terrible Rupes
Carola Dunn Murder on the Flying Scotsman
Helen Fielding Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason
E. M. Forster A Room with a View
Alex Garland The Beach
Barry Gifford Wild at Heart
Gar Anthony Haywood Bad News Travels Fast
Jane Heller Princess Charming
Joan Hess Maggody in Manhattan
Rachel Ingalls Binstead's Safari "Friends in the Country" novella
Diane Johnson Persian Nights
Stephen King The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
Billie Letts Where the Heart Is
Gillian Linscott An Easy Day for a Lady
David Lodge Paradise News
Michael Malone Handling Sin
Sharyn McCrumb Missing Susan
James McManusGoing to the Sun
Katherine Hall Page The Body in the Fjord
David N. Smith Timbuktu
Edward Streeter Mr. Hobbs' Vacation
Paul Thoreaux The Mosquito Coast
Clinton Twiss The Long, Long Trailer
Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust
Johann David Wyss Swiss Family Robinson
Non Fiction
Erma Bombeck When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods
Tim Cahill A Wolverine is Eating My Leg Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
Yossi Ghinsberg Back from Tuichi
Richard Halliburton Any travel books
Tracy Johnston Shooting the Boh
Betty Mahmoody Not Without My Daughter
Patrick McManus A Fine and Pleasant Misery
Farley Mowat The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
Redmond O'Hanlon Any nonfiction
P. J. O'Rourke Holidays in Hell
Robert Young Pelton Come Back Alive: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Disasters, Kidnappings, Animal Attacks, and Other Nasty Perils of Modern Travel
Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
Paul Thoreaux, any titles
David Foster Wallace A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Anthologies
Bad Trips - Keath Fraser (ed.)
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers - Roger Rapoport (ed.)
I've Been Gone Far Too Long - Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Wendy Logsdon (ed.)
There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled - Doug Lansky (ed.)
Juvenile
The Absolutely True Story--How I Visited Yellowstone Park
With the Terrible Rupes by Lewis Q. Dodge, Willo Davis Roberts
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