Whether traveling by plane, train, or automobile–you’ll likely have some empty hours to fill when you’re on the road. Here are some of my top picks to help the time fly by!
Prepare to feel things more deeply than you have for a long time. Elif Shafak weaves an intoxicating web of intrigue, ambition, and loyalty during the height Ottoman Empire. You may be in an airport or on a bus, but open this up and you’ll be lost in the palaces and streets of glittering Istanbul.
Beloved writer, Iranian-American Firoozeh Dumas, assembles hilarious anecdotes that will resonate with anyone who’s grown up caught between two cultures. You’ll finish this heartwarming collection feeling like her friend, confidant, and–likely–her biggest fan.
Normally I try not to feed my fear of flying by reading books about plane crashes, but I couldn’t put this one down! Take a little bit of time travel, some romance, and throw in a post-apocalyptic alternate universe, and you’ve got yourself a winner.
People in airports across the world heard me chuckling (sometimes uncontrollably) as I read this tale of a big-wig LA TV programmer transplanted into a tightly knit, nigh-unbearably quirky New England town. Written by a veteran of “the Biz”, New Bedlam gives a tongue in cheek account of what really goes on behind your TV screen.
What better travel classic than one of adventure pioneer, Jules Verne? Join Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and later Aouda as they race to circumnavigate the globe. Phileas wasn’t one to stop and see the sights, but he still finds plenty of adventure along the way.
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