2021's Most Transporting Books

In a year when travel was limited, a weary world found comfort traveling through the pages of great books. Whether in Farewell Mr. Puffin’s ode to life at sea, Islands of Abandonment’s look at new life in Chernobyl or The Third Pole’s mystery of who reached the summit of Everest first, these works transported us all around a world that we were longing for and provided future adventures as well. —Kathleen Rellihan