<p>A Song of Ice and Fire. The first book was made into a HBO mini series and the second one is in the works. It is a 5 book series.</p>
<p>rodney, I’m not sure if kindle has this feature, but my nook has an “airplane mode” which cuts off its communication with the outside world, so I can read inflight to my heart’s content.</p>
<p>OP, when I think about page-turners, I also seem to think nonfiction. One of my favorites is Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer, about the 1996 disaster on Mt. Everest.</p>
<p>Steve Jobs biography.</p>
<p>Jon Krakauer is good- also Bill Bryson, but both fast reads. ( also Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand)
Mysteries- much of Lee Child ( until you get tired of the formula), Raymond Chandler, Sharyn McCrumb. Aaron Elkins, Dorothy Sayers.
More non fiction- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, Born Standing up by Steve Martin & The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant</p>
<p>Obviously an ebook reader will be a big help!</p>
<p>If you like ancient Rome, the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough are all long interesting books, starting with The First Man in Rome. Agree with James Clavell books and also the Outlander series.</p>
<p>Boy, I didn’t think my Bill Bryson book was a fast read! It took me a month to read ‘At Home’, as there was so much info in it, I felt I needed days to digest each chapter!</p>
<p>For an overseas flight, I wouldn’t suggest a book at all. I would highly recommend putting on some relaxing music, taking a sleeping pill, and getting some rest. Whenever I flew across the Atlantic, either direction, I went to sleep as soon as we were at cruising altitude and woke up about an hour before landing. It was more important to be on the new time zone. </p>
<p>Save the book for sitting in the airport waiting for the flights.</p>
<p>If you have an ipod, you might download some audio books from your local library. I now find when I cannot go to sleep I turn on an audio book, as well as listening when working around the house, yard, etc.</p>
<p>Sarah’s Key was a fast but lovely read. I also enjoyed The Book Thief. Unbroken is another I would recommend.</p>
<p>Novels with Nazis appear to be popular airplane books. In fact that’s one reason why airliner crashes are so tragic - because the last thing more than 200 people see just before they die is about a hundred swastika-covered books flying around the cabin as the plane plunges earthward.</p>
<p>^^ Yikes! :eek:</p>
<p>While it is a longer book, Airport by Arthur Hailey is a good choice. For a faster read, Up in the Air by Walter Kirn is also a good read. As you likely know, both of these books were made into Hollywood blockbusters. FWIW, the book Up in the Air has a different ending than the film version.</p>
<p>Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Well-written and plenty of pages. Won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but don’t let that stop you.</p>
<p>I’ll go a little more lowbrow and suggest Charlaine Harris. She does the Southern Vampuire series that became the True Blood show-though her books don’t read as graphic as the series. I also enjoy Mercedes Lackey Elemental Masters series and Tales of 500 Kingdom series, which are based on fairy tales with a twist.</p>
<p>I didn’t mention my favorite Bill Bryson books, or David Sedaris, because even though they are fast and fun and will make the time fly, they’ll also make you laugh so loud you’ll wake up the whole plane. But if you have a road trip or train trip coming up and reading doesn’t make you sick, you can’t do better than Bryson’s “Lost Continent” and “I’m A Stranger Here Myself.”</p>