Here's a question... which is your favorite book to read on that long flight across the Atlantic? My recommendation ... "Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood"... I had read about it, hadn't read it but bought it at the airport bookstore... which other book will make those hours fly by?

Any of the Patricia Cornwell or Sue Grafton mysteries.Peter Mayles books on Provence when I am on my way there,or anything about Paris when I am on my way there!Or a book that I am reading now-The Social Lives of Dogs, got it as a gift because we got a dog and cannot put it down, touching,and informative..C

I tend to just pick out something from one of my bulging bookcases shortly before departing - without much thought of my destination, but rather what grabs my interest at the moment. It may be something that needs to be re-read or merely a book that time has never allotted a proper reading. Packing at least one book is, for me, at least as important as packing clothes, money, passport, etc. and rare would be the day when I had to purchase at the airport.<BR><BR>This month, these are the books I have read on flights:<BR><BR>_Memento Mori_ by Muriel Spark<BR><BR>_One True Thing_ by Anna Quindlen<BR><BR>_The Black Book_ by Ian Rankin<BR><BR>

Oprah's book club hasn't steered me wrong so far... Ellen Foster is a really cute, uplifting book. Also any book by Maya Amgelou specifically I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I couldn't put down The Pilot's Wife too , however it's about a woman whose pilot husband dies in a plance crash if that makes you a little squirmish but it's a great read.

Sorry for the typo it's Maya Angelou...

Read James Patterson, Roses are Red, is a great book.

My two travel books this year were Blind Asassin by Margaret Atwood for a trip to Italy and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tim Robbins for a trip to Mexico. Blind Asassin is a great book that I've recommnended to everyone I know. Fierce . . . is okay if you're going to a hot climate or if you're a big Robbins fan.

I read Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day" recently and wished I had saved it for my upcoming flight to Paris! It's very funny, and a few of the essays deal with his life in Paris.

I'm reading 'Me Talk Pretty One Day' now and I'm laughing out loud thinking of my attempts at learning Italian this past year. <BR><BR>I also liked :<BR>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers<BR><BR>A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson <BR><BR>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. If you're in the mood for a feel-good type of book on the plane, the subject matter is a bit weighty at times, but it's wonderfully and cleverly written with references to life in Prague pre-WWII.<BR><BR>I'll echo that the recommendation for Oprah's book club. I've read some selections including 'The Reader' and 'House of Sand and Fog'.<BR><BR>While I haven't read it yet (and thus can't really recommend it), I just got a copy of Brunelleschi's Dome.

On the last flight over I read the second Harry Potter book. I hadn't read any of them before I saw the movie [which I loved] so now I'm making up for lost time

Do a search on this topic-great thread last yr of about 200 replies---found some of my now favorite authors through it!<BR>PS you can cross-check at amazon to get more info on any inteesting looking books.

I always enjoy reading a book that relates to my destination: Dickens when going to London, Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls & Cervantes' Don Quixote in Spain, Notre-Dame de Paris (Hugo) for the trip to Paris, etc.

While waiting to check in at the Frankfurt airport, on the way home from Budapest, an American government official handed my vacation-mate a book. It was James Paterson's Roses are Red. She read it crossing the pond and then I started it while waiting for a flight attendent at BWI. I finished by the time we landed in Jacksonville. Sure glad that man shared with us. <BR>

You can never go wrong with any book by James Patterson!

I agree with GGin. I love reading books that are set in the destination I'm travelling to. But, the book I reccommend to all of my friends is "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy O'Toole. Funniest book I've ever read.<BR>It may appeal to guys more than woman however. Not sure why I think that, but I do.

For those who enjoy popular fiction, might I recommend the works of Stuart Woods. Very readable with clever plots and lots of surprises. Some tiltles: Dead in the Water, Imperfect Strangers, Santa Fe rules, New York Dead

I liked The Girl with the Pearl Earring. Historical fiction of the artist Vermeer. Made me want to schedule a trip to Holland.

Mostly reading for ladies, but for men I'd recommend you dig out your "Lord of the Ring" trilogy from your college days and give them another spin.<BR>Also, I've been rereading the original James Bond series which, btw, are nothing like the movies by the same name.<BR>For Civil War buffs, a comparatively new one out, "The Warrior Generals - Combat Leadership In the Civil War" by Thom. B. Buell, and on the Revolutionary War, Jeff Shaara's "Rise to Rebellion" is fabulous. Now if you're really into history try Hanson's bestseller that explains why we owe it to Themistocles that we don't speak Farsi today, "Carnage and Culture". That oughta keep ya busy! Good reads all.

I alwats read the escape information. best book on the plane.

Anything by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child has worked magic for me: its a fast-moving, somewhat sci-fi, and with great action sequences. Entertaining and not too serious.<BR>For beginners, try Thunderhead (Mesa Verde and Anasazi mystery)<BR>Also, the Relic and Reliquiary are just awesome!!!<BR>