A few recent good reads:

Read online descriptions and reader-reviews on the web pages provided by the links above. While the other volumes are more-or-less self-explanatory, let me offer a word about the second book from the left, A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino de Santiago: Camino Frances - The French Way of St. James. This is a guide (in a "Camino Guide" series) to a Pilgramage taken by generations of Catholic pilgrims from all over Europe to Santiago de Compostela, the legendary burial site of St. James (the stories are -- in many senses of the word -- incredible!), in northwestern Spain. The French route, featured by this guide, originally began in Paris at the Tour Saint-Jacques and would continue south through France, over the Pyrenees into Spain and across the north of Spain westward to Santiago de Compostela. Even from the Pyrenees to Santiago alone, it's a rigorous, month-long overland trek by foot from one village and pilgrim hostel to the next. I once was on the verge of taking the plunge and undertaking this trek, but plans were aborted because of a schedule that gave precedence to visiting one of my sons in Rota, just east of Cadiz, in Southern Spain. Maybe someday ...