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 Punishment 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 The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham My Name Is Red and The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
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)