What is Airport Lit? Well, as Dominique Browning, a NY Times travel writer, opined recently, it's literature that features "plain, old-fashioned, unrelenting, compelling storytelling." She finds such books so engrossing that she can easily ignore the increasing indignities of air travel (hence the name).
My reaction is - why save such good reads for the airplane? They're engaging and satisfying anytime and anywhere.
Ms. Browning listed some of her favorite 'AL' authors - George R. R. Martin, Scott Turow, P. D. James, Maeve Binchy, Bernard Cornwell, Ruth Rendell - and opened up the article for comments. Her readers cited a wide range of writers, including novelists Deborah Crombie, Jo Nesbo, Ian Rankin, Charles Todd, Joanna Trollope, Georgette Heyer, and Louise Penny, and such nonfiction authors as David McCullough. Here's a link to the article and reader suggestions.
I would enthusiastically include in this group fiction writers Philip Kerr (Bernie Gunther series), Robert Harris, and Elizabeth Jane Howard (Cazalet Chronicles), plus nonfiction notable Erik Larson.
Have you got any names to add to this list of sure-bet reads? Please add them below!
Mary Hoskinson-Dean
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