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.
July Book Club Pick
Fun For The Whole Family by Jennifer E. Smith
- 50 states 🌎
- estranged siblings
- a cabin in North Dakota
- a childhood map
- & family secrets
“She stares at the phone, her sleep-deprived brain trying to make sense of the words: Meet me in North Dakota this weekend?
Behind the curtains, the night is punctuated by streetlamps, and Gemma blinks into the semidarkness, thinking: North Dakota? and then: Jude.
Jude.”
– Jennifer E. Smith, Fun For The Whole Family (pg. 5)
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.
