J. Anim-Addo et al. This is the canon; decolonise your bookshelves (2021)
J. Cortázar and C. Dunlop, Autonauts Of The Cosmoroute (1982)
P. Furtado (ed.), Great cities through travellers eyes (2019)
O. Manning, School for Love (1952)
N. Royle, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector (2021)
A. Seldon (ed.), How Tory governments fall (1996)
J. Steinbeck, Once there was a war (1958)
E. de Waal, Letters to Camondo (2021)
First, a warning: Autonauts Of The Cosmoroute sounds fun, a pastiche of travel writing that contains solely a month long journey down a French motorway. It's not. It's terrible. Do not read it.
Several lovely and / or interesting books you could read here, though not without their issues (here's my detailed thoughts on decolonising bookshelves). Best, actually easily, was Isherwood's brilliant novel. At the time, obviously, part of the fame came from depiction of a gay relationship, and obviously the semi-clandestine nature of that relationship reflects the time. But it's brilliant because it's brilliant. Even stripped of the context, it's very well written, very precise, and blissfully, very short.
