I had the same problem on my last trip to Europe...I forgot how much I would read since I was traveling on my own. But, it turned out really well because Norli, the main bookstore in Norway, had a table of English language books on sale and I quickly got hooked on Marian Keyes, an Irish writer. I bought and read 3 of her books over there and got the rest of them when I was in Vancouver the following fall. Her books had just started to be released in the States, so I felt very smug in being ahead of the curve!

And I likely would never have discovered Susan Power's extraordinary THE GRASS DANCER had it not been on a similar traveler's free bookshelf, when I exchanged (regretfully) my copy of James Baldwin's ANOTHER COUNTRY. But about Roth: My memory of Portnoy was so negative that it kept me from him for 30 years, but THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA is actually quite remarkable.