A Muslim concubine and mapmaker with magical abilities risk everything to escape the Spanish Inquisition’s persecution.

Also Fulfills: Read a fantasy novel. Read a magical realism novel. Read a historical fiction set before 1800.

A Mexican bookstore owner and her son flee Acapulco after her journalist husband’s exposé of a drug cartel leader puts their lives in danger, joining migrants heading north on dangerous trains.

A National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, now a major TV series, about Cora, a slave who escapes a Georgia plantation via a literal underground train system, facing dangers across states while pursued by a relentless slave catcher.

Also Fulfills: Read a book that won an award.

A Belgian detective uses his “little grey cells” to solve a seemingly impossible murder on a snowbound Orient Express train, with an international cast of suspects.

A young woman discovers a strange map in her deceased father’s belongings that holds an incredible, deadly secret.

Also Fulfills: Read a magical realism novel

A hobbit inherits a powerful ring and must embark on a perilous quest to destroy it before an evil lord conquers Middle-earth.

Also Fulfills: Read an Epic Series starter. Read a Fantasy novel. Read a book about friendship.

Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that shot to the top of bestseller lists when it was first published and changed the way we think about the world, expanding our sense of how strange and marvelous it really is.

Also Fulfills: Read a travel memoir (close enough)

Two searching hearts. Two perilous paths. Velamir must find the courage to face his past and Natassa must find the strength to face herself before the war consumes them both.

Also Fulfills: Read a Fantasy novel.

After losing their home and learning of terminal illness, Raynor Winn and her husband embark on a 630-mile coastal journey, finding healing and strength in nature’s embrace.

Also Fulfills: Read a memoir or autobiography.

Displaying this truth with beautiful full-color illustrations, The Writer’s Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This magnificent collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity.

Also Fulfills: Read a book about music or art