Our long awaited trip to visit D as she studies abroad is here. We leave at the crack of dawn tomorrow and, no matter how hard I’ve tried to have everything done, I still have such a long list of things to do today. One of them is to download 3-4 books that are light, engaging, perfect-for-long-airplane-flight reads. No time to research and, honestly, no time to wade through that wonderful but lengthy ‘best book I’ve read in the last 6 months’ thread. Anyone want to share an easy, light read they’ve read recently?
Do you like Hockey?
The loves of Louis XIV or something along those lines by Antonia Fraser. It’s non-fiction but as good as any fiction! 
I read it on an overseas flight myself.
@DadTwoGirls…not really. Although my husband does so I attend a game on occasion!
@SouthFloridaMom9, I do enjoy historical fiction – I’ll check it out. Thanks!
I enjoyed this one:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/invisible-thread-laura-l-schroff/1100397342
Have fun!
You have to give us an idea of what you like. Give some clues to the type of books you are looking for.
The Grantchester Mysteries. Set in Cambridge, England in the 1950s/60s. Charming.
I quite liked “My Hockey, Gordie Howe, my story”. It is an easy read, but you won’t finish it on one flight. It is about his life, and perhaps hockey as a way of life, rather than about the game.
I read this on a plane
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
https://www.amazon.com/Swans-Fifth-Avenue-Novel/dp/0345528697
About Truman Capote’s friendship with a group of socialites who he then betrayed by writing about them. Light, fun, but also intelligently written.
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. About four grown siblings who have always depended on coming into their parents’ trust fund until the youngest needs virtually all of it in the wake of a dumb drunk accident. The other siblings, of course, have been counting on this money to help them with expensive college tuition, paying off a house they otherwise couldn’t afford, etc. It’s smart and funny and light.
This looks like a good list –
https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/entertainment/what-to-read-right-now
A Man Called Ove, if you haven’t read it yet.
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova.
Try Maisy Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. A post-WW1 setting, about a young woman who is a private investigator/psychologist/intuit. Well written historical fiction series. For something spicier try the Outlander series.
Bridget of Kildare by Heather Terrell
Outlander, if you haven’t read it.
I also enjoy reading OLD travelogues of places I’m going to. So Mark Twain Innocents Abroad for Europe…
Isabella Bird works for Hawaii, Japan, Iraq, and the Rocky Mountains.
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. The Group by Mary McCarthy.
@rosered55 I was just getting ready to recommend Commonwealth, too. And I didn’t know that Anne Tyler has a new novel out! Seems like we have similar reading tastes so I’m putting all of your suggestions on my reading list.
Just finished The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, an entertaining and easy read. Recommend it…
I will second or third Commonwealth! And add in Bel Canto which is an earlier Patchett novel.