<p>I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas and am flying solo to Europe in a couple of weeks. I am more of a casual reader than one who seems to always have reading material lined up
I have recently read " The Help " , "Water for Elephants " and a couple of other books that I found to be mediocre…really liked the first two.
Does anyone have any suggestions that might be similar ?
I was thinking about getting " The Descendants " and have been urged to get " The Hunger Games " trilogy
Thanks :)</p>
<p>check out the World Book thread… many of the books on the list were ones my bookclub has read over the years and enjoyed…Little Bee, Kiterunner, Bel Canto, Glass Castle, Book Thief, Henrietta Lacks.<br>
We are just starting Hunger Games…</p>
<p>The Color of Water. I’m reading it in my english class, everyone loves it</p>
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<p>I second all the titles mentioned above. Hunger Games is actually considered young adult fiction, so keep that in mind. Little Bee is tragic… not sure if it would be vacation reading.
I just finished an off beat book titled The Girls- about conjoined twins. Really pulled me in. Am reading Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet right now. Would recommend it as well. A Thousand Splendid Suns and Kite Runner are two of my all time favorites.</p>
<p>lje62- lucky you going to Europe.
Chiming in support the Hunger Games. I was very reluctant to read the book, given the “young adult” theme, but it was a real page turner. (I stopped at the first but most people don’t, and I intend to read the others) Plus, when that movie comes out this year, you’ll want to know about it. </p>
<p>If you have any interest in time travel/ JFK- the new Stephen King 11-22-63 at 849 pages will take you to Europe and back a couple of times. It’s Feb 1st, book selection for the CC’s Book Discussion,and quite readable. </p>
<p>Check out the 13th Tale-it was one of our earlier CC book discussion books,and I remember it as such a nice book, in the category of those you mentioned above.
With Kindle you can download those sample chapters and find out if you like, and selecting a book can make a vacation so much better.</p>
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<p>Lots of excellent suggestions there. Two of my Ds have read The Hunger Games trilogy and enjoyed them. Both were a little surprised by how very dark they were, though, considering they’re geared towards young readers.</p>
<p>“Brooklyn,” by Colm T</p>
<p>My book club read the Hunger Games. While not great literature…it’s actually a quite easy read and a page turner. I ended up reading the trilogy.</p>
<p>Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It’s about an Olympic athlete who became a bomber crew member during WW2 and became a Japanese prisoner of war. It’s a great story!</p>
<p>Any of the Lisa See books would make good airplane reading. 13th Tale is also good for a plane. I find for airplanes I need to go light. I get easily distracted so I need a book that grabs my attention right away but isn’t so complex that I have to concentrate to keep track of the different plots and characters.</p>
<p>I’ll second “Unbroken”. I read completely in two flights…</p>