Most of them were cheap used books from Half.com and a few of the Argentina belong to family members.

My wife enjoyed the novels about the destinations such as Kiss & Tango and The Little School.

I on the other hand preferred to read the structured and well laid out traditional travel books from Lonely Planet, Frommer's and Insight Guides.

Some people prefer to not know anything about a travel destination, I'm more the type that wants to know everything before I get there.