I got a handful of responses to my earlier call for airplane reading material. Thank you. And so, I’ve taken a few of those suggestions and used them as building material for the following list of possible books to fill at least a good portion of approximately 11 hours of flight.
- Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship by Christopher Hitchens
- What’s the Matter with Kansas? : How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
- Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley by David Browne
- The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
- King Rat by China Mieville
- Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe
- Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
If you made a suggestion and don’t see your book here, don’t fret. For most of the unlisted, I’ve either already read it (as in the case of the incredibly awesome Confederates In The Attic) … or I’m already reading it (Confederacy of Dunces lives in the garage for reading while grilling … not sure why) … or I’ve tried to read it before and it never really held my interest (Tom Robbins, I’m sad to say).
So out of the listed ten, five are fiction and five are not, I need to pick out two. Maybe three. Any help would be appreciated. (Don’t be shy.)
