NYT Travel

Bestseller List for January 15, 2017

ATLAS OBSCURA
Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
Workman
9780761169086
0-7611-6908-3
A richly documented ultimate explorer's guide to more than 700 hidden marvels, events and curiosities around the world.
HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES
Brandon Stanton
St. Martin's
9781250058904
1-250-05890-2
More photographs, this time accompanied by interviews, from the creator of the blog and the book “Humans of New York.”
THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING
Bill Bryson
Anchor
9780804172714
0-8041-7271-4
An American expatriate travels around his adopted country, Britain.
HUMANS OF NEW YORK
Brandon Stanton
St. Martin's
9781250038821
1-250-03882-0
Four hundred color photos of New Yorkers, with brief commentary. Originally published in 2013.
SULLY
Chesley B Sullenberger III with Jeffrey Zaslow
Morrow/HarperCollins
9780062561206
0-06-256120-0
A memoir by the pilot who made an emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009. Originally published as “Highest Duty” in 2009. The basis for the 2016 movie.
DESTINATIONS OF A LIFETIME
the staff of National Geographic
National Geographic Society
9781426215643
1-4262-1564-9
A photographic tour of 225 global destinations.
SPEAKING AMERICAN
Josh Katz
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
9780544703391
0-544-70339-1
The creator of the New York Times dialect quiz provides a guide to how words are pronounced in different parts of the country.
WILD
Cheryl Strayed
Knopf
9780307476074
0-307-47607-3
An account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. Originally published in 2012 and a 2014 movie.
LION
Saroo Brierley
NAL
9780399584695
0-399-58469-2
The author was lost on a train in India at age 5, then adopted by a couple in Australia; he searched for and found his birth family as an adult. Originally published in 2014 as “A Long Way Home” and the basis for the 2016 movie.
NONSTOP METROPOLIS
Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
University of California
9780520285958
0-520-28595-6
Essays and 26 imaginative maps celebrate New York City.