Hitchhikers Guide for sure.
The cave bear books are Jane Auel.

I'll suggest One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Magical realism in the Latin American Lit tradition is wonderful to take the mind off its current surroundings. Like Water for Chocolate falls into that as well.
stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on . Suggested reading for a brother in the slam So a good friend of mine recently got busted for his basement grow op, (compleatly personal BTW) and now he's looking at a good two years inside. I've been sending him books to read while hes there to, if nothing else, keep his mind occupied and his body out of trouble. So can anyone suggest good reading material for someone behind bars? Hes already read all of Casteneda's books and I think eveything Michael Talbot has written on metaphysics, also he's been a bit of a Depak Chopra fan Rating: 5