Click any of the links below to purchase or find out more about travel guidebooks and maps of the city of Honolulu, Hawai'i, its unique culture and beautiful sights.
Honolulu Guidebooks
Fodor's Pocket Honolulu & Waikiki
Frommer's Honolulu, Waikiki & O'ahu
Hawai'i the Best of Paradise: An Insider's Guide to Honolulu and All the Islands
Hidden O'ahu 3 Ed: Including Waikiki, Honolulu and Pearl Harbor
Lonely Planet Honolulu & O'ahu City Maps
The Rough Guide to Honolulu
Other Guide Books
Driving and Discovering O'ahu
O'ahu Trails: Walks, Strolls, and Treks on the Capital Isle
The Hiker's Guide to O'ahu
The Puka Guide: O'ahu's Hole in the Wall Restaurants
Enlightening Beach Reads
Ancient Hawai'i Native Hawaiian artist Herb Kawainui Kane offers a glimpse of Hawai'i as it existed before Western contact in a series of painstakingly researched paintings and drawings.
Ancient Sites of O'ahu
Chicken Skin Tales: 49 Favorite Ghost Stories from Hawai'i Modern Hawai'i is a conglomeration of native and immigrant cultures--Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, American and many others--each of which has contributed to the Islands' rich tradition of supernatural lore. Local storyteller Glen Grant presents some of his favorite ghostly tales and urban legends in a collection guaranteed to give the reader goosebumps, or "chicken skin."
Hotel Honolulu: A Novel By Paul Theroux The tale of a writer who leaves the mainland to manage a seedy hotel in Honolulu, as only the mind of master storyteller Paul Theroux can craft it. A great read.
Paradise Remade: The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai'i
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands
The Water of Kane Mary Kawena Pukui, one of Hawai'i's foremost experts in Native Hawaiian culture, collaborates with co-author Caroline Curtis and illustrator Oliver C. Kinney to present an accessible collection of traditional Hawaiian legends and myths.
Talk Like a Local
New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary The Hawaiian names on Honolulu's street and freeway signs can be daunting for the uninitiated. The Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary offers pronunciation tips as well as definitions for everyday Hawaiian words.
Pidgin to Da Max Learn the critical difference between "What, like beef?" and "Eh, let's go Tony Roma's!" This humorously written and illustrated book offers an introduction to Pidgin, the local dialect.
