- The last island, discovery, defiance, and the most elusive tribe on earth, Adam Goodheart
- Sicilian splendors, discovering the secret places that speak to the heart, John Keahey
- Young heroes of the Soviet Union, a memoir and a reckoning, Alex Halberstadt
- The last ride of the Pony Express, my 2,000-mile horseback journey into the Old West, Will Grant
- Driving the Green Book, a road trip through the living history of Black resistance, Alvin Hall, with Karl Weber
- Sleeping with the ancestors, how I followed the footprints of slavery, Joseph McGill Jr. and Herb Frazier
- Bears in the streets, three journeys across a changing Russia, Lisa Dickey
- Wildland, the making of America's fury, Evan Osnos
- The outlaw ocean, journeys across the last untamed frontier, Ian Urbina
- Six walks, in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, Ben Shattuck
- The best American travel writing 2017, edited with an introduction by Lauren Collins ; Jason Wilson, series editor
- The High Sierra, a love story, Kim Stanley Robinson
- The puzzler, one man's quest to solve the most baffling puzzles ever, from crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life, A.J. Jacobs ; with puzzles by Greg Pliska
- Richard Halliburton's complete book of marvels, Books I & II
- All the way to the tigers, a memoir, Mary Morris
- A pilgrimage to eternity, from Canterbury to Rome in search of a faith, Timothy Egan
- Walking to listen, 4,000 miles across America, one story at a time, Andrew Forsthoefel
- World travel, an irreverent guide, Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever
- Killing it, an education, Camas Davis
- Rain falling on tamarind trees, a travelogue of Vietnam, C. L. Hoang
- Life on the Mississippi, an epic American adventure, Rinker Buck
- The white mosque, a memoir, Sofia Samatar
- Spying on the South, an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz
- Clanlands, whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other, Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish ; foreword by Diana Gabaldon
- Polar exposure, an all-women's expedition to the North Pole, Felicity Aston ; with contributions from members of the Women's Euro-Arabian North Pole Expedition
- The hero's way, walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna, Tim Parks
- Round here and over yonder, a front-porch travel guide by two progressive hillbillies (yes, that's a thing), Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester
- Walking with Sam, a father, a son, and five hundred miles across Spain, Andrew McCarthy
- The cyclist who went out in the cold, adventures riding the Iron Curtain, Tim Moore
- The best women's travel writing, true stories from around the world, edited by Lavinia Spalding ; illustrated by Colette Hannahan, Volume 12
- Travels with George, in search of Washington and his legacy, Nathaniel Philbrick
- A course called Scotland, searching the home of golf for the secret to its game, Tom Coyne
- The underground culinary tour, how the new metrics of today's top restaurants are transforming how America eats, Damian Mogavero and Joseph D'Agnese
- Completely mad, Tom McClean, John Fairfax, and the epic race to row solo across the Atlantic, James R. Hansen
- The nine lives of Pakistan, dispatches from a precarious state, Declan Walsh
- A country between, making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide, Stephanie Saldaña
- South and West, from a notebook, Joan Didion
- No friends but the mountains, dispatches from the world's violent highlands, Judith Matloff
- Figures in a landscape, people and places : essays: 2001-2016, Paul Theroux
- High, a journey across the Himalaya, through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China, Erika Fatland ; Translated By Kari Dickson
- America the beautiful?, one woman in a borrowed Prius on the road most traveled, Blythe Roberson
- Driving Miss Norma, one family's journey saying "yes" to living, Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle
- Following Caesar, from Rome to Constantinople, the pathways that planted the seeds of empire, John Keahey
- Kingdoms in the air, dispatches from the far away, Bob Shacochis
- Spying on the South, an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz
- Dark, salt, clear, the life of a fishing town, Lamorna Ash
- Airplane mode, an irreverent history of travel, Shahnaz Habib
- Dirt, adventures in Lyon as a chef in training, father, and sleuth looking for the secret of French cooking, Bill Buford
- Not in a Tuscan villa, during a year in Italy, a new Jersey couple discovers the true dolce vita when they trade rose-colored glasses for 3Ds, John and Nancy Petralia
- Imagine a city, a pilot's journey across the urban world, Mark Vanhoenacker