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Reading List

For travels of a different kind, here is a (far from complete) list of some of our favorite books--both in English and in Spanish.

English

Anna Karenina and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Sometimes a Great Notion and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Crime and Punishement by Feodor Dostoyevsky
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting For You by Dorothy Bryant
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Endurance: The True Story of Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Into Thin Air and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth and other stories by Roger Zelazney
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazney
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
The Diary of Che Guevara by Ernesto Guevara
Shogun by James Clavell
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer

Spanish

Cien años de solidad by Gabriel García Márquez
La Fiesta del Chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa
Ensayo de la ceguera and Ensayo de la luzidezby José Saramago
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Las intermitencias de la muerte by José Saramago

Authors

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (The Martin Beck Mysteries)
Tony Hillerman (The Leaphorn-Chee series)
John Steinbeck (anything)
Ernest Hemingway (anything)
Kurt Vonnegut (anything)
Henry James (anything)
Ray Bradbury (anything>
José Saramago (anything)
Mario Vargas Llosa (anything)
Gabriel García Márquez (anything)


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