Summer voyages
Guardian writers on favourite summer books which take them on a journey
Summer voyages: The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
Stuart Kelly: A holiday journey around 18th-century Britain is irresistibly sweet
Summer voyages: Coasting by Jonathan Raban
An eccentric offshore progress around Britain is a sharp portrait of a nation at war and a brilliant depiction of the shape-shifting sea
Summer voyages: La Modification (A Change of Heart) by Michel Butor
Keren Levy: One man's train ride from Paris towards his mistress in Rome follows his thoughts on a fascinating journey
Summer voyages: Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens and Others
Fictional Victorian railway journeys make great companions for holiday train trips today
Summer voyages: South from Granada by Gerald Brenan
This account of a demobbed English soldier immersing himself in an Andalusian village is a beguiling vision of true community
Summer voyages: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Very long and very violent, this is a journey into the darkest parts of humanity. It's hard going, but it is a truly great book
Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Sam Jordison: The narrator's journey is not many miles, but takes him – and the reader – an exhilarating distance from the familiar
Summer voyages: In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas
Flora MacQueen: A vivid and poignant portrait of a vanished age
Summer voyages: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
In Lowry's 20th-century masterpiece, a disgraced English consul finds and loses himself on Mexico's day of the dead
Summer voyages: The Hounds of the Morrigan
This extravagant journey into reinvented Irish legend is a believable fantasy – and retains its magic through endless rereadings
Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing
A journey through six 'zones' on the way to a threatened planet, this novel challenges SF's usual aversion to spiritual speculation
Summer voyages: Leo the African by Amin Maalouf
A book of a book of multiple layers and journeys finds the everyman in a 16th-century traveller, says reader AggieH
Summer voyages: Notes From Overground by Tiresias
Simon Hoggart: Twenty years of train journeys between Oxford and Paddington are packed into a cult travel book from 1984
Summer voyages: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
This 1961 children's classic, a modern Alice in Wonderland, takes readers on a fantastical journey along the road towards reason
Summer voyages: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Robert McCrum: It was meant as a travel guide for boating fans – but then the author's voice took over and turned it into a comic masterpiece
Summer voyages: Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
Claire Armitstead: Whether you're getting away or chained to your desk over the summer, we look at novels that will transport you
