 | Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $1.48 perhaps the ultimate travelogue of the last few years. Follows a young woman through Italy, India, and Bali in search of a new version of herself and a man to go with it.
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 | Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire: A Novel by Margot Berwin
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $4.07 An awesome romp through the green markets of New York City and Mexico's yucatan penninsula in search of exotic plants and hot romance. This debut novel had me at the first sentence. Plus it's got the word country-sexual in it, which I believe the author coined and which I've now put to use several times.
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 | Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 An oldie but a goodie. single woman, old tuscan farmhouse, cute guys. A classic travel book.
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 | Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.92 week long Indian weddings, parsi practices, Mumbai,New Delhi, and MacDonalds. A really fun, light but enlightening travelogue through India through the eyes of someone who didn't really want to go.
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 | A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.30 A deeper book on India than the aforementioned Holy Cow (which I loved). this book takes a hard look at India's poor outcasts trying to live in a 1970's India controlled by murderers and toughs. The four main characters try to maintain their humanity in the face of people without any. Not for the faint of heart, but very real.
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 | The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Aravind Adiga
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.78 you can decide for yourself whether or not the main character is sympathetic or simply a killer. And that is what is so good about this book. It ends up being specific to the person who reads it and can tell you a lot about yourself.
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 | The Sheltering Sky (P.S.) by Paul Bowles
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.91 As far as I'm concerned, one of the greatest travel books ever written. Follows a young couple through the desert as they come to realize that nature will have no pity on them.
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 | A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 A guilty pleasure that I've read more than once. loved it each time. American moves to Paris, deals with annoying neighbors, realtors, contractors, and eats and drinks great food and wine. A perfect beach read year after year.
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 | The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City by David Lebovitz
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.92 YUM! A lovely memoir of an expat living in paris and cooking with lots of butter and sugar and chocolate! 50 fattening, mouthwatering recipes for foodie travelers.
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