Guidebooks

Lonely Planet

Central America on a Shoestring: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama

 

 Indonesia

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

South India & Kerala

Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu

Rough Guides

South India

Laos

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Book Exchange

These are the books I found & read in my travels:

My Favorite Authors

Dan Brown

• Angels & Demons
• Da Vinci Code 
• Digital Fortress 

Bill Bryson

• A Walk in the Woods
• Down Under
• The Thunderbolt Kid 

Paulo Coelho

• The Alchemist 
• By the River Piedra I Sat & Wept 
• Eleven Minutes 
• The Pilgrimage 

Robin Cook

• Coma 
• Crisis 
• Foreign Body 
• Sphinx

Mark Haddon

• A Spot of Bother
• The Curious Incident with the Dog in the Night

Jhumpa Lahiri

• Interpreter of Maladies
• The Namesake

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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

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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

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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

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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