Katelyn's Book'd Lists

Plane Tickets Are Expensive

Created by Katelyn - Updated on March 27^th 2023

Yup, traveling isn't cheap, so why not transport yourself through a book? Fair warning: these books may make you want to travel even MORE. Here is a list of books that take place in other countries, states, or cities and describe the life and scenery so well that they leave the reader itching to buy a plane ticket!

There you'll find me

Jones, Jenny B., 1975-

From the Publisher

Eighteen-year-old Finley, seeking God, quiet time to prepare for an audition at a prestigious music conservatory, and knowledge of the land her deceased brother loved, spends senior year in Ireland, where teen movie idol Beckett Rush, equally troubled, desires her company.

My Thoughts

Takes place in Ireland

Anna and the French kiss

Perkins, Stephanie.

From the Publisher

When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.

My Thoughts

Takes place in France

Love & gelato

Welch, Jenna Evans, author.

From the Publisher

"After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"-- Provided by publisher.

My Thoughts

Takes place in Italy

Love & Luck

Welch, Jenna Evans

From the Publisher

From the author of Love & Gelato comes a heartwarming tale of a road trip through Ireland filled with love, adventure, and the true meaning behind the word family. Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt's over-the-top destination wedding and hoping she can stop thinking about the one thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken—and threatens her future. But her brother, Ian, isn't about to let her forget, and his constant needling leads to arguments and even a fistfight between the...

My Thoughts

Takes place in Ireland

Love & Olives

Welch, Jenna Evans

From the Publisher

From the author of Love & Gelato comes a Mamma Mia! –inspired tale about a teen girl finding romance while trying to connect with her absent father in beautiful Santorini, Greece. Liv Varanakis doesn't have a lot of fond memories of her father, which makes sense—he fled to Greece when she was only eight. What Liv does remember, though, is their shared love for Greek myths and the lost city of Atlantis. So when Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father explaining that National...

My Thoughts

Takes place in Greece

Tokyo ever after

Jean, Emiko, author.

From the Publisher

After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.

My Thoughts

Takes place in Japan

Loveboat, Taipei

Wen, Abigail Hing, author.

From the Publisher

When Ever Wong's parents sent her away fro the summer, she's expecting Chien Tan: a strict, educational immersion program in Taiwan. Instead, she finds the infamous "Loveboat." There, Ever is surrounded by prodigies, like Rick Woo, Chinese American wonder boy and longtime bane of her existence; Ever's roommate, the confident and clever Sophia Ha, as glamorous as she is sharp; and the intimidatingly cool Xavier Yeh, heir to an international tech empire. But her classmates are more interested in...

My Thoughts

Takes place in Taiwan

The Spanish love deception : a novel

Armas, Elena, author.

From the Publisher

"Catalina Martin desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows--including her ex and his fiancée--will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won't be easy to fool. Enter Aaron Blackford--her tall, handsome, condescending...

My Thoughts

Takes place partly in Spain

Shipped : a novel

Hockman, Angie, author.

From the Publisher

"The Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game in this whipsmart romantic comedy about a marketing manager who's forced to go on a cruise with her arch-nemesis when they're up for the same promotion"-- Provided by publisher.

My Thoughts

Takes place in the Galapagos Islands

The layover

Waldon, Lacie, author.

From the Publisher

"An unexpected tropical layover with her nemesis turns a flight attendant's life upside down in this ... debut romantic comedy about life--and love--30,000 feet above the ground"-- Provided by publisher.

My Thoughts

Takes place in Belize

Crazy rich Asians

Kwan, Kevin.

From the Publisher

Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.

My Thoughts

Takes place in Singapore

Paris is always a good idea

McKinlay, Jenn, author.

From the Publisher

"A thirty-year-old woman retraces her gap year through Ireland, France, and Italy to find love--and herself ... It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong post-college European adventure. Since then, she's lost her mother to cancer and watched her sister marry twice, while Chelsea's thrown herself into work, becoming one of the most talented fundraisers for the American Cancer Coalition, and with the exception of one annoyingly competent coworker, Jason Knightley, her...

My Thoughts

Takes place in Ireland, France, and Italy

One hundred years of solitude

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014.

From the Publisher

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendi? family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women--brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul--this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

My Thoughts

Takes place in Columbia (this book contains magical realism)

The astonishing color of after

Pan, Emily X. R., author.

From the Publisher

After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.

My Thoughts

Takes place in Taiwan

French kissing in New York

Jouhanneau, Anne-Sophie, author.

From the Publisher

Margot, a seventeen-year-old aspiring chef, moves from France to New York to follow her dreams, but things become complicated when she meets Zach, a fellow chef, and is torn between chasing her dream or her dream boy.

My Thoughts

Takes place in New York City

Where the crawdads sing

Owens, Delia, author.

From the Publisher

"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals...

My Thoughts

Takes place in the marshlands of North Carolina