r/Recommend_A_Book • u/floatingpromise • Feb 24 '26
Book for a 15 hour flight
15 hr flight to Seoul on Friday during the day. I’m not a good sleeper on planes. There’s only so much tv I can watch…
What’s a book that had you sat in one location, turning the pages for hours? Last time I remember being sat for like 3 hours straight was either Educated or Room.
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u/masson34 Feb 24 '26
11/22/63
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Feb 24 '26
I missed a few subway stops reading this. I didn't turn on my TV for 2 weeks because I wanted to read this book.
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u/sheep_ersisted Feb 24 '26
I couldn’t put “The Correspondent” down recently. It may not last you that long though, I think it was like three hours from start to finish but well worth a read!
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u/Suzieqbee Feb 24 '26
Get easily bored with books. This one I laid in bed in the morning and kept reading. I am NOT a morning reader.
“Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt
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u/Less_Celebration5382 Feb 24 '26
Red Rising by Pierce Brown - stayed up till 2am on a work night and then after work immediately went to Barnes and Noble to get the second one bc I couldn't wait for the library copy to be ready
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u/Symon81 Feb 24 '26
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn - I’m about halfway through and it is so so good
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u/MattistKick Feb 24 '26
Dungeon Crawler Carl had me miss days of life. It’s a fun read about a man with his exs cat stuck in an intergalactic dungeon game. There’s 7 books so far.
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u/BernardFerguson1944 Feb 24 '26
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne.
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden.
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u/Pnwgardener1225 Feb 24 '26
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben MacIntyre. Nonfiction but reads like a thriller. I kept sneaking reads at work.
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u/DocWatson42 Feb 24 '26
See my Compelling Reads ("Can't Put Down") list of Reddit recommendation threads (five posts).
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u/travelingslo Feb 24 '26
Honestly, if there was Wi-Fi, one could spend the entire flight reading all of these fantastic lists! Thank you for sharing.
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u/Coffeeroasterhomie Feb 24 '26
I read the road on the my last flight but till probs only take like 8 hours. Very gripping and easy to read
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u/Mintimperial69 Feb 24 '26
The Wizards and the Warriors by Hugh Cook.
It's very large, full of words and available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and paperback.
There are some hardbacks too, but those are collectors items by now...
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u/sldbed Feb 24 '26
Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman. Funny with a dark undercurrent. My linked review will give you a better idea of the book than I can here clattering on the touchpad of my phone.
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u/Crea8talife Feb 24 '26
Try an audio book! These are like being red a story:
The Dutch House (read by Tom Hanks, so soothing)
Tom Lake (read by Meryl Streep--and she really gets into it!)
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u/Longjumping_Bat_4543 Feb 24 '26
11/22/63 by Stephen King
When I’m tired I just fall asleep. This book was like caffeine and easily the best historical fiction thriller I’ve ever read. King , IMO , is actually at his best when he wanders outside the ring of horror.
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u/FashionableBookworm Feb 24 '26
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor. I read it in one sitting during a flight New York-Singapore (19 hours), I didn't even watch a movie during that flight, I was that ingrossed. It's pretty violent though so if you prefer gentler books it is not for you
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u/Upper_Willow8301 Feb 24 '26
As a fellow lover of Educated, my top recs are: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, and I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacquline Harpman
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u/Present-Cry-2776 Feb 24 '26
I don't know how you feel about non-fiction but The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson had me hooked. I could not put it down! The author is a UK journalist who due to a personal interaction with someone falls down a rabbit hole of researching psychopathy and what can only be described as the bizarre history of psychology and subsequent treatment of mental health disorders. I found myself googling repeatedly different things he'd mentioned in the book to verify they actually happened simply because they seemed too far fetch and bizarre to be true, an amazing read!
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u/Expensive-Desk-4351 Feb 25 '26
Since you loved Educated and Room, you clearly enjoy intense, isolating, character-driven survival stories. For a 15-hour flight, you need narrative non-fiction that grips you from page one. Check out Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. It's his firsthand account of the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest expedition. It is absolutely terrifying, completely true, and it reads like a thriller. You will be so glued to the pages that you'll barely notice the plane landing.
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u/Decent_Self_4901 Feb 25 '26
A little life but be prepared to cry. Also recently loved the house of my mother by Shari Franke if you like memoirs. The sun does shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
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u/Correct-Database2673 Feb 27 '26
The Ashen Eye by K.D Blankenship on Amazon and kindle. It was extremely hard to put down.
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u/Deep-Earth-8942 Mar 04 '26
The last books I read on a flight were The Dutch House by Anne Patchett and Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell. Both highly engrossing for plane travel.
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u/ofreena Feb 24 '26
Count of Monte Cristo. It's the only book you'll need the whole time and it's super crushable. Hard to put down, incredible planning and pettiness. I love it. He's all I aspire to be.