Guidebooks
Lonely Planet
Central America on a Shoestring: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama
Java, Bali, Lombok, Gili Islands
South America on a Shoestring:
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile
Southeast Asia on a Shoestring:
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos
Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu
Rough Guides
Book Exchange
These are the books I found & read in my travels:
My Favorite Authors
Dan Brown
Bill Bryson
Paulo Coelho
Robin Cook
Mark Haddon
Jhumpa Lahiri
Travel Literature
MULTIPLE STOPS
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Backpack by Emily Barr
The Backpacker by John Harris
Female Nomad & Friends by Rita Gelman
Her Fork in the Road by Lisa Bach
Silk Dreams, Troubled Road by Jonny Bealby
The Thong Also Rises by Jennifer L. Leo
CAMBODIA
Stay Alive. My Son by Pin Yathay
ECUADOR
The Curse of the Tortoise by Octavio Tapia
INDIA
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Italy, India, Indonesia)
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
SINGAPORE
Notes From an Even Smaller Island by Neil Humphreys
THAILAND
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
The Beach by Alex Garland
VIETNAM
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
When Heaven & Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
Classics & Best-Sellers
Balzac & the Little Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Kite-runner by Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Old Man in the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Chick Literature
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Extra Credit (Roommates) by Alison Blair
The Friends We Keep by Holly Chamberlin
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James
- Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James
Her Fork in the Road by Lisa Bach
How to Kill your Husband by Kathy Lette
Sex & the City by Candace Bushnell
The Starter Wife by Gigi Graze
Random Picks
Anything Considered by Peter Mayle
The Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
Gridlock by Ben Elton
Nudge by Richard Thaler
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Yesman by Danny Wallace