I need a good book for a plane ride. Suggestions?

Question

I love mysteries/thrillers. I'm open also to romance/fantasy/sci fi. I DONT want any horror while on the plane, thanks.

The plane ride is 13 hours long. So the bigger the book probably the better.

Answer 1

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.Each novel in the series is told from the fictional perspective of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden (named by his father after Harry Houdini, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and David Copperfield). Dresden is the only professional wizard in modern-day Chicago (he is in the phone book, under "Wizards").In the world of The Dresden Files, magic is real, along with vampires, demons, spirits, faeries, werewolves, and more. The general public that Harry Dresden works to protect does not believe in magic or the large array of dark forces which regularly conspire against them. This makes it tough for Harry to get by as a working wizard and private eye.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Read Odd thomas,Forever odd and Brother Odd by Dean Koontz.These books are about Odd Thomas who see dead people and is compelled to solve crimes.

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz is the third book in his Odd Thomas series. Poor Odd has been through so much in the last couple of years. He lost Stormy, the love of his life, he's given up his job and his home to move into seclusion at a California mountainside monastery in hopes that his "gift" for seeing the dead won't be an issue up there. Instead he finds a poltergeist monk and evil spirits gathering around the young disabled children the monks (and nuns) care for. Odd knows that trouble is coming, and as usual he's the only one to recognize it.Can Odd mitigate the coming cataclysm? Of course he can, despite the arrival of murderous bone creatures and grim Death itself, for the monks include quite a contingent of reformed martial sinners, most memorably Brother Knuckles, formerly of the New Jersey Mob, and another guest, a mysterious Russian librarian from Indianapolis, who is more and different than Odd thinks he is.

Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.This story starts off with a young boy, Val Darrant, being abandoned by his mother.(she tells her boyfriend to kill him).Val ends up being cared for by Will Reilly who is a gambler.Turns out to be the best gamble Reilly ever made.The first quarter of the book is about adventures that Will and Val have. They have to deal with outlaws, they fight off Indians, and they travel to Europe.Unfortunately Will is ambushed by three men and killed while Val is still a teenager. But Val has learned many important lessons from Will. The next part of the book is about Val growing up. He has some money and is able to invest the money in a couple ventures.

The story then jumps forward a couple years, and the last part of the book pulls together many of the threads. Val finally meets his mother, who is again trying to have him killed. Val kills the last two of Will's murderers. And Val financially destroys the man who hired the murderers.

The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind,Galloway,Flint are also good books by the same author.

Another good series is the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.The books provide an alternate take on vampires.People who are unjustly murdered call upon Artemis(Greek goddess) and she grants them a day to avenge themselves.After that they are recruited to her army to fight against evil.These are romance novels.Best of the series are 'Dance with the devil' and 'Seize the night'.

Dragonjousters book series(joust,alta,sanctuary,Aerie) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. That is only the beginning.The rest of the books are about how he gets a dragon of his own,his escape to Alta,how the war between the two kingdoms is stopped etc.

The door to december by Dean Koontz.A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next.

The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments.

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad past.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum.Forget the movie.The book is the real article."The Bourne identity" is the story of a man without a past, rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by some fishermen. He is very ill, and his body has suffered the impact of many bullets. The man is taken by the fishermen to a doctor in a nearby island, who helps him to recover physically and mentally. Our protagonist doesn't remember who he is, but with the help of the doctor he finds some clues he doesn't like too much. He only knows for certain some things, for instance that his face has been altered by plastic surgery, that he knows a lot about firearms and that he carried on him a microfilm that contains the code to an account of four million dollars.

In the Swiss bank where the account is he also finds a name: Jason Bourne. But... is he Jason Bourne?. He cannot remember, and if it were for quite a few people, he won't. From the moment he leaves the island onwards, our man without a past will be followed, and attacked. He doesn't understand why, but he reacts in order to stay alive. Add to this already interesting mixture a woman he takes as a hostage, Marie, a number of assasins (including the most famous assassin in the world, Carlos), and the possibility that he is, as a matter of fact, also an assassin, and you will understand why this book is so good. The main character will be hunted all throughout the book not only by the "bad guys", but also by the "good" ones (mainly agents from the USA Government). You won't be able to stop reading this book, and you will find yourself asking aloud to nobody in particular "who on earth is this man?" and "what started this whole mess"?.
Warning:A character gets raped.

Its about a fairy Splendour who is ordered to marry a human( a duke).The poor hero is confused by the woman who will shrink if not kissed regularly,drinks apricot face lotion.On top of that he is harassed by splendour's sister who even turns him into a snail.His cousin Emil thinks that Splendour is exactly what the doctor ordered for the staid ,boring Jordan.

Really great romance novels
You belong to me-Johanna lindsey
A dark champion,Born in sin-Kinley Macgregor
Angel rogue,One perfect rose,The wild child-Mary jo Putney
Mary Balogh-Slightly tempted,A famous heroine,The temporary wife
The de burgh bride-Deborah Simmons
Isn't it romantic-Ronda Thompson
How to treat a lady-Karen Hawkins(and the rest of the Talisman ring series)
Lord of the storm,The sky pirate-Justine Davis
Tracy anne warren-The wife trap

Answer 2

Have you ever read any Laurell Hamilton? She has a series about a vampire executioner named Anita Blake. The first books in the series are really good. Sherrilyn Kenyon writes a series about Dark Hunters. I don't really consider either series horror.

The Kite Runner was a good book - gives you some insight into Afghanistan before, after and during Taliban. I also read a book by Alice Hoffman called Fortune's Daughter. Her writing is pretty unique - in this story two people end up connecting (a psychic who reads tea leaves and a young pregnant woman) and both grow from the experience.

A BIG book is Gone With the Wind. I read it years ago. It's pretty good and may be over 1000 pages. I also really like Clan of the Cave Bear (though I didn't do so well with those sequels.)

Have you read Alice Sebold? She has a memoir called Lucky and a novel called The Lovely Bones. Both are excellent.

I've been reading so much (and buying, as books are my work now as well), but my mind is a blank. Apologies! I'll add to it if I can later.

Have a great trip! That's one heck of a ride.

Answer 3

No such factor as a 22 hour flight. You have to have now not factored on your time zones or you've gotten a connecting flight. On such lengthy distance flights, there will probably be films with the TV's at the back of the seats, in addition they have video games and many others. Make certain you get a window seat as good so that you simply stare external while you're bored. I cant rather advise any well books - probably some thing six hundred pages lengthy?? Make certain you drink tons of WATER (restrict cola and different delicate drink) and make certain you stand up to have a stroll up and down the plane once or more an hour. Good good fortune!!

Answer 4

The book I last read on a flight (and didn't get very far through on the 2-hour plane ride) was 'Roma Eterna,' by Robert Silverberg. I thought the premise was intriguing: Connected short stories from the alternate-history premise that the Roman Empire survives. So far the story about the exiled Roman meeting Mohammed is the most interesting, I think. If you like scifi, you may like this book (probably appropriate, in both reading level and content, for bright 14-year-olds and over; it's written for adults.)

Answer 5

Robert Asprin and Terry Pratchett are both fast reading authors. Asprin "Time Scout" series co-written with Linda Evans is wonderful and not too far out. "Going Postal" by Pratchett is fantastic.

Douglas Preston's "The Codex" is a great book and not too long. Three half-brothers (same father, different mothers), find out thier wealthy father has taken the loot he made (plundering the tombs of Central and South Americas) to be entombed with him. If they want an inheritance they must work together and rob their father's final resting place. Can the boys keep greed from getting the best of them? Who is this pharmaceutical researcher that is after their father? Can she be trusted?

Answer 6

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (Trilogy)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin (Trilogy)

There is an Agatha Christie type detective series of books by an Australian Author, Kelly Greenwood called The Phryne Fisher Mysteries which is my favourite. It's set in Melbourne in the 1920's, Phryne Fisher is the lady detective and she's edgy and sassy and it's loads of fun, well worth the read.

Answer 7

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. It's just plain fiction, but it's my favorite. If you like thriller/mysteries then I would go with An Isolated Incident by Susan R Sloan or Stone Angel by Carol O'Connell

Answer 8

The locket by Evans
The Blue Bottle Club by Stokes
The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Gilman

Answer 9

Have you read Alain de Botton's "The Art of Traveling"? I read a paperback with lots of photos and good description with samples why and what we should do while traveling, philosophically speaking. I assure you'd get new ideas or views of life from the book, it's not a serious one, it's for anyone interested in applied/practical philosophy with some good ideas of looking at things.
Enjoy your flight.

Answer 10

Michener Any book is long enough for the flight... I would suggest either Covenant (South Africa) The Source (Middle East) Chesapeake (Maryland) Alaska or Centennial (Colorado) Historical Novels all

Answer 11

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anne of Green Gables <<< a series by L.M. Montgomery


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Those two are my faves.