Start with high-confidence literary travel books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Apprentice Tourist
Mário de Andrade
Booked
Richard Kreitner
For the Love of Ireland
Susan Cahill
Around the World in 80 Books
David Damrosch
The Tangier Diaries
John Hopkins
Bookstores of the World
Jean-Yves Mollier, Patricia Sorel
Mile Marker Zero
William McKeen
American Smoke
Iain Sinclair
A Middle-earth Traveler
John Howe
Germany: a Literary Anthology
Brian Melican
A Room of Their Own
Marlene Wagman-Geller, Joyce Maynard
Literary Places
Sarah Baxter, Amy Grimes
Iceland
Marcel Krueger
Writers' London
Carrie Kania, Alan Oliver
Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries
DC Helmuth, Nancy Pearl
Jane Was Here
Nicole Jacobsen, Devynn Dayton
A Literary Tour of Italy
Tim Parks
111 Literary Places in London That You Shouldn't Miss
Terry Philpot