What to read when you're going to Greece: (some good travel books and some not so obvious)

Art for Travellers Greece, an essential guide to viewing art in Greece, by Bill and Lorna Hannan

Eleni, by Nicholas Gage

Facing Athens: Encounters with the modern city, by George Sarrinikolaou

Frommer's Greece

Greece, DK Eyewitness Travel, Athens and the Mainland

It's all Greek to me: a tale of a mad dog, and an Englishman, ruins, retsina, and real Greeks by John Mole

Let's go Greece

Most beautiful villages of Greece, The, by Mark Ottaway

Quick Guide to Customs & Etiquette, Culture Smart!

North of Ithaka: a journey home through a family's extraordinary past, by Eleni N. Gage

Summer of my Greek Taverna, by Tom Stone

Historical Fiction

Beneath a Marble Sky: a novel of the Taj Mahal, by John Shors (17th century India)

Lady and the Unicorn, The, by Tracy Chevalier (Paris and Brussels in the 15th century with tapestry weaving)

March, by Geraldine Brooks (Civil War, the Alcotts)

People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (Preservation, Books, Judaism) - Absolutely Fabulous!

Thread of Grace, by Mary Doria Russell (powerful story of Jews escaping Italy during WWII)