Vagabonding debuts on Book Sense bestseller list

The American Booksellers Association has released its Book Sense Bestseller List for the month of January, and it looks like Vagabonding has cracked the Travel Writing Top 25, with a debut at #15. A lot of perennial travel favorites, such as Jon Krakauer’s 1997 Into Thin Air and Peter Mayle’s 1990 A Year in Provence still hold slots — and Bill Bryson has four separate books on the list. Results are culled from a survey of 350 independent booksellers nationwide. Here’s a rundown of the top 25 travel titles:

1. A Cook’s Tour, by Anthony Bourdain
2. Blue Latitudes, by Tony Horwitz
3. Bill Bryson’s African Diary, by Bill Bryson
4. Walking the Bible, by Bruce Feiler
5. A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
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6. Without Reservations, by Alice Steinbach
7. This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, by Gretel Ehrlich
8. In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
9. From Here, You Can’t See Paris, by Michael S. Sanders
10. The Art of Travel, by Alain de Botton
11. The Best American Travel Writing (2002), ed. by Frances Mayes
12. Looking for Alaska, by Peter Jenkins
13. A Thousand Days in Venice, by Marlena de Blasi
14. Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes
15. Vagabonding, by Rolf Potts
16. The River’s Tale: A Year on the Mekong, by Edward A. Gargan
17. French Lessons, by Peter Mayle
18. Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer
19. Points Unknown, Edited by David Roberts
20. On Rue Tatin, by Susan Herrmann Loomis
21. A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle
22. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, by Peter Hessler
23. Confederates in the Attic, by Tony Horwitz
24. Down the Great Unknown, by Edward Dolnick
25. In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson