Eden Travel Book Club
Welcome to Eden Travel Book Club! Here, you’ll find unique travel book recommendations, reading lists that spotlight memoirs and essays and stories in translation, and of course, our monthly travel book club pick. Each month, I select one travel book (either fiction or nonfiction) to read alongside you. In 2026, we’ll be traveling everywhere from Japan to Borneo to Croatia.
March Book Club Pick
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
- dark comedy
- along the coast
- 19th century luxury hotel
- Newport, Rhode Island
- an (almost) death & a week-long wedding
“She stayed up looking at the hotel, analyzing the rooms and the excursions-there were so many possible excursions. They could paddleboard with seals. Go on a ‘water journey’ at a nearby spa. Visit Edith Wharton’s house on the Cliff Walk. Do yoga by the ocean, not that she had ever done yoga. But she liked the thought of becoming a woman who casually did yoga by the sea.”
– Alison Espach, The Wedding People (pg. 21)
P.S. This is a no-pressure book club. You can join at any time. You can skip any month. And if you don’t like the book I pick, that’s okay too. Don’t feel like you have to finish it. I still love hearing your thoughts.
