The three most popular books at Guantanamo's library for detainees reportedly are:It would be helpful to have a list of the books available for comparison's sake. And I presume the absence of the Qur'an is due to its being available to prisoners in their cells.
1. The Harry Potter novels
2. Miguel Cervantes's Don Quixote
3. Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father
I don't know what this means.
(Why is it, btw, that we so often fall into calling the prisoners "detainees"? Is Gitmo not a prison? Is the implication that one becomes a prisoner only after being convicted and sentenced?)
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