- Greek to me, adventures of the comma queen, Mary Norris
- The best American travel writing 2015, edited and with an introduction by Andrew McCarthy ; Jason Wilson, series editor
- One summer, America, 1927, Bill Bryson
- Dark, salt, clear, the life of a fishing town, Lamorna Ash
- Out of thin air, running wisdom and magic from above the clouds in Ethiopia, Michael Crawley
- Original highways, travelling the great rivers of Canada, Roy MacGregor
- The outlaw ocean, journeys across the last untamed frontier, Ian Urbina
- Black Dragon River, a Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires, Dominic Ziegler
- Strays, a lost cat, a homeless man, and their journey across America, Britt Collins ; with a foreword by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- The Maine event, by Spike Gillespie
- Nature love medicine, essays on wildness and wellness, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner
- The hero's way, walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna, Tim Parks
- Winter pasture, one woman's journey with China's Kazakh herders, Li Juan ; translated by Jack Hargreaves and Yan Yan
- North Korea journal, Michael Palin
- Time song, journeys in search of a submerged land, Julia Blackburn ; with drawings by Enrique Brinkmann
- Names for the sea, strangers in Iceland, Sarah Moss
- Pravda ha ha, true travels to the end of Europe, Rory MacLean
- Blue sky kingdom, an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas, Bruce Kirkby
- Into the wild, Jon Krakauer
- Sophie, the incredible true adventures of the castaway dog, Emma Pearse
- 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
- Horizon, Barry Lopez
- Sovietistan, travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, Erika Fatland ; translated by Kari Dickson
- The 500 hidden secrets of Dublin, Shane O'Reilly ; photography, Sam Mellish
- The Shakespeare guide to Italy, retracing the Bard's unknown travels, Richard Paul Roe
- Antarctica, an intimate portrait of the world's most mysterious continent, Gabrielle Walker
- An odyssey, a father, a son, and an epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
- Open midnight, where ancestors & wilderness meet, Brooke Williams
- Horizontal vertigo, a city called Mexico, Juan Villoro ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam
- Girl in the woods, a memoir, Aspen Matis
- Blind spot, Teju Cole ; foreword by Siri Hustvedt
- How to travel without seeing, dispatches from the new Latin America, Andrés Neuman ; translated by Jeffrey Lawrence
- The seventies, a photographic journey, Ira M. Resnick ; foreword by Robert Klein
- My penguin year, life among the emperors, Lindsay McCrae
- In search of King Solomon's mines, Tahir Shah
- The sun is a compass, a 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds, Caroline Van Hemert
- The footloose American, following the Hunter S. Thompson trail across South America, Brian Kevin
- The underground culinary tour, how the new metrics of today's top restaurants are transforming how America eats, Damian Mogavero and Joseph D'Agnese
- A voyage across an ancient ocean, a bicycle journey through the northern dominion of oil, David Goodrich
- Korea, a walk through the land of miracles, Simon Winchester
- No friends but the mountains, dispatches from the world's violent highlands, Judith Matloff
- The puma years, a memoir, Laura Coleman
- South of the Clouds, travels in southwest China, Bill Porter
- A Year in Paris, Season by Season in the City of Light, John Baxter
- God save Texas, a journey into the soul of the Lone Star State, Lawrence Wright
- Duck season, eating, drinking, and other misadventures in Gascony -- France's last best place, David McAninch
- Figures in a landscape, people and places : essays: 2001-2016, Paul Theroux
- The optimist, a case for the fly fishing life, David Coggins
- An innocent abroad, life-changing trips from 35 great writers, edited by Don George
- The third bank of the river, power and survival in the twenty-first-century Amazon, Chris Feliciano Arnold