- Outpost, a journey to the wild ends of the earth, Dan Richards
- A place in the world, finding the meaning of home, Frances Mayes
- Nala's world, Dean Nicholson ; with Garry Jenkins
- How the word is passed, a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith
- Rowing the Northwest Passage, adventure, fear, and awe in a rising sea, Kevin Vallely
- And the monkey learned nothing, dispatches from a life in transit, Tom Lutz
- Spying on the South, an odyssey across the American divide, Tony Horwitz
- The best American travel writing 2011, edited and with an introduction by Sloane Crosley ; Jason Wilson, series editor
- The Lost City of the Monkey God, a True Story, Douglas Preston
- While the earth sleeps we travel, stories, poetry, and art from refugee youth around the world, Ahmed Badr ; [foreword by Ben Stiller]
- Wildland, the making of America's fury, Evan Osnos
- Midnight's borders, a people's history of modern India, Suchitra Vijayan
- Seeking Sicily, a cultural journey through myth and reality in the heart of the Mediterranean, John Keahey
- Travels with George, in search of Washington and his legacy, Nathaniel Philbrick
- The library, a catalogue of wonders, Stuart Kells
- On the plain of snakes, a Mexican journey, Paul Theroux
- The New York nobody knows, walking 6,000 miles in the city, William B. Helmreich
- Wild by nature, from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot, Sarah Marquis
- Mexican days, journeys into the heart of Mexico, Tony Cohan
- Travels with Henry James, Henry James ; foreword by Hendrik Hertzberg ; introduction by Michael Anesko
- A course called America, fifty states, five thousand fairways, and the search for the great American golf course, Tom Coyne
- The women I think about at night, traveling the paths of my heroes, Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson
- A beginner's guide to Japan, observations and provocations, Pico Iyer
- Unsolaced, along the way to all that is, Gretel Ehrlich
- Kings of the Yukon, one summer paddling across the far north, Adam Weymouth
- The hare with amber eyes, a hidden inheritance, Edmund de Waal
- The wasting of Borneo, dispatches from a vanishing world, Alex Shoumatoff
- How to talk about places you've never been, on the importance of armchair travel, Pierre Bayard ; translated by Michele Hutchison
- Leave only footprints, my Acadia-to-Zion journey through every national park, Conor Knighton
- Ghost empire, a journey to the legendary Constantinople, Richard Fidler
- The Alps, a human history from Hannibal to Heidi and beyond, Stephen O'Shea
- A country between, making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide, Stephanie Saldaña
- Everything left to remember, my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains, Steph Jagger
- Hell's traces, one murder, two families, thirty-five Holocaust memorials, Victor Ripp
- It's only the Himalayas and other tales of miscalculation from an overconfident backpacker, S. Bedford
- Once we were sisters, Sheila Kohler
- Border, a journey around Russia : through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage, Erika Fatland ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson
- Travels with George, in search of Washington and his legacy, Nathaniel Philbrick
- The interior silence, my encounters with calm, joy, and compassion at 10 monasteries around the world, Sarah Sands
- The seventh heaven, travels through Jewish Latin America, Ilan Stavans
- Turn right at Machu Picchu, rediscovering the lost city one step at a time, Mark Adams
- The art of patience, seeking the snow leopard in Tibet, Sylvain Tesson ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne
- Sicilian splendors, discovering the secret places that speak to the heart, John Keahey
- My fourth time, we drowned, seeking refuge on the world's deadliest migration route, Sally Hayden
- Travels with Casey, Benoit Denizet-Lewis
- The return, fathers, sons, and the land in between, Hisham Matar
- Ottoman odyssey, travels through a lost empire, Alev Scott
- In other words, Jhumpa Lahiri ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
- The last London, true fictions from an unreal city, Iain Sinclair ; [photographs by Iain Sinclair, Anonymous Bosch, and Effie Paleologou]
- The Oregon Trail, a new American journey, Rinker Buck