Hi friends, as the title says, I am taking a couple long haul flights in the next month, and I am a very nervous flyer. Please suggest some very engaging / riveting books that will hopefully distract me from the flight.
For context, I love pretty much all genres but before someone recommends these, i have read and loved some of the oft suggested books such as the Mistborn series, 11/22/63, Lonesome Dove, Project Hail Mary, Legends and Lattes. Haha.
Thank you all in advance !
by beeberoni
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My top three are:
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
John Scalzi (Redshirts, Old Man’s War) and Blake Crouch (Recursion, Dark Matter) are the first authors I think of when Andy Weir comes up. Both have written quite a bit. Becky Chambers is in that same mold as well.
I read ***The Mars House*** **by Natasha Pulley** on an 11-hour plane ride last year and I LOVED it. Very engaging, highly recommend!
Seconding *Starter Villain*, it’s standard Scalzi fare but still fun.
If you want a long, action-packed fantasy novel, ***REAMDE*** **by Neal Stephenson** was a blast!
Something with Legends and Lattes vibes: ***Kings of the Wyld*****, by Nicolas Eames**. The main characters are retired mercenaries who formed a very well-known band of mercenaries, in a world where mercenary bands are kind of like rock bands.
*Mickey-7*, by Edward Ashton. The MC is a clone and is on his 7th life; he fulfills this function for his community, which is a small settlement on a foreign planet, the first to land there. Pretty fast-paced overall but also had some meditations on what makes the “self” etc.
*St. Death’s Daughter*, by CSE Cooney. Dark, so dark, but actually got more hopeful as the book went on. Very compelling. Very gory. It was long but I zipped through it!
*I Have Some Questions For You*, by Rebecca Makkai. First person narration. The main character is a writer who returns to her alma mater and gets pulled into revisiting a decades-old mystery, with a lot of self-reflection about what we remember, how we respond to authority, etc.
Recent books that I found the most engaging (i.e., had difficulty putting aside):
* All The Colors Of The Dark by Chris Whitaker
* Age Of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
* The Women by Kristin Hannah
* Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
* Two books by Abraham Verghese – Cutting For Stone & Covenant Of Water