As we travel there can only be so many windows that we stare out of. Airplanes, trains, buses, cabs, tuk-tuks, rickshaws, hotels, hostels or home stays. Our fingers may get strained and calloused from all the keystrokes of emailing, facebooking, twittering, flickr updating, surfing news aggregates as well as keeping up with new posts to keep you interested in us and what we’re doing. We may find ourselves in a hotel or pub on a really rainy, hot or otherwise undesirable kinda day.

To keep our sanity as well as to keep our brains from turning to mushy peas, we’ve begun to assemble what will be an ever changing list of the books and travel guides that we plan to have while we travel. We can’t take them all at once so as we’re picking up a new one, we’ll be leaving behind others to make sure our load is in balance, and share the books that we have with other travelers.

Here is a list of what we’ve enjoyed so far:


Ice Bound : A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
Nielsen

Don’t Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I’m a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
Carter

Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin
Cucullu

Daughter of the Killing Fields: Asrei’s Story
Seng

Kon Tiki
Heyerdahl

Voices From S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison
Chandler

The Rum Diaries
Thompson

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Glenny

The Alchemist
Coehlo

Pappillon
Charriere

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey From War to Peace.
Hayslip

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in The Bangkok Hilton
Gregory

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Ung

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites With the Sister She Left Behind.
Ung

The Girl in The Picture. The Story of Kim Phuc, The Photograph and the Vietnam War
Chong

Ladyboys. The Secret World of Thailand’s Third Gender
Aldous

Miss Bangkok – Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute
Boonmee

What the Dog Saw
Gladwell

Committed
Gilbert

A Moveable Feast
Hemingway

Elephants on Acid
Boese

Uneasy Rider
Carter

Where Do Underpants Come From
Bennett

The Consolations of Philosophy
De Botton

The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paddling the Pacific
Theroux

10 Months in Laos
Conroy

From Stregnth to Strength
Henderson

Eat Pray Love
Gilbert

On The Road
Kerouac

Travels with Charley – In Search of America
Steinbeck

The Nasty Bits
Bourdain

The Bitter Sea – Coming of Age in a China Before Mao
Li

Administering Windows Vista Security
Minasi

Three Cups of Tea
Mortenson

Animal Farm
Orwell

Relationship Rescue
Dr. Phil
(though we’re newlyweds it never hurts to be prepared, right?)

Keep checking back, as we travel and our miles increase, so will our book list.

One Response to “Personal Reading”

1. Demelza Phillips- Abdulwahed says:

   July 9, 2010 at 9:38 pm

   I know Egypt is now behind you and you are looking ahead to new adventures on new lands……. BUT, can I make a recommendation? “TAXI” by Khaled Al Khamissi. It gives you a new perspective on all the “scamming” and “bribery” that takes place in Cairo. Hope you can read it!