- 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
- 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
- Sophie, the incredible true adventures of the castaway dog, Emma Pearse
- 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
- Names for the sea, strangers in Iceland, Sarah Moss
- 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 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 500 hidden secrets of Dublin, Shane O'Reilly ; photography, Sam Mellish
- 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
- 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
- Around the world in 80 trains, a 45,000-mile adventure, Monisha Rajesh
- Writing away, a creative guide to awakening the journal-writing traveler, Lavinia Spalding
- Outpost, a journey to the wild ends of the earth, Dan Richards
- Under Another Sky, Journeys in Roman Britain, Charlotte Higgins
- The road to Sleeping Dragon, learning China from the ground up, Michael Meyer
- World travel, an irreverent guide, Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever ; illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook
- Disappointment River, finding and losing the Northwest Passage, Brian Castner
- Wherever you go, a guide to mindful, sustainable, and life-changing travel, Daniel Houghton
- The quiet zone, unraveling the mystery of a town suspended in silence, Stephen Kurczy
- Our towns, a 100,000-mile journey into the heart of America, James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
- The gran tour, travels with my elders, Ben Aitken
- The nine lives of Pakistan, dispatches from a precarious state, Declan Walsh
- Horizontal vertigo, a city called Mexico, Juan Villoro ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam
- Girl in the woods, a memoir, Aspen Matis
- Rising, dispatches from the new American shore, Elizabeth Rush
- 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
- The sun is a compass, a 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds, Caroline Van Hemert
- Havana, a subtropical delirium, Mark Kurlansky
- In search of King Solomon's mines, Tahir Shah
- The footloose American, following the Hunter S. Thompson trail across South America, Brian Kevin