How about the perfect novel to read, matched with the perfect locale?
It's great fun to read a novel based in the place you just happen to be visiting...something about your surroundings changes the whole sensation of the reading experience...here are a few suggestions....
1. Crete, Greece - Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
2. Santorini, Greece - A Marker to Measure Drift, Alexander Maksik
3. Paris, France - Les Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
4. The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador - Origin of the Species, Nino Ricci
5. New York City, U.S.A. - Man Gone Down, Michael Thomas
6. Somerset/Devon, England - The Witch of Exmoor, Margaret Drabble
7. South Africa - None to Accompany Me, Nadine Gordimer