Any recommendations on books to read in flight? I have a lot of long travel coming up - generally prefer realistic fiction (last book I loved was Bear Town) and hoping for some suggestions!

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Or uhh... Dresden Files...

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SHOE DOG!

Sorry I got excited by "book recommendation" and skipped the genre you like. But my recommendation still stands!

Celestine prophecy

The Goal

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

If you read bear town, did you read a man called ove?! If not, read that ASAP. It’s the authors beat book in my opinion, and I’ve read 4 of them so far

Beartown has a sequel that just came out, just started it myself

Thanks, all! A1, I haven’t read ove yet, started Britt-Marie was here but didn’t get as into it.

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