Winter Reading Challenge 2026: Modes of TransportationLike this list

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• Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

  Stevenson, Benjamin,

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  Ever since Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, the train has been the perfect setting for a locked room mystery. This train trip doubling as a mystery convention gathers mystery writers, readers, and critics--one of whom has learned…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Drowning

  the Rescue of Flight 1421

  Newman, T. J. (Novelist)

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  Perhaps save this book about a crashed plane sinking to the ocean floor until after your own flight has landed safely!

• Jasmine and Jake Rock the Boat

  Lalli, Sonya

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  Jasmine has embarked on a seniors cruise with her family and childhood friend-turned-enemy Jake. As the two begin to realize their feelings for each other, will their newfound romance be smooth sailing or is it doomed to sink?

• The Harvey Girls

  Fay, Juliette,

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  This historical novel set in 1926 follows three women who set out to become "Harvey Girls", waitresses on the Sante Fe Railroad.

• The Last Flight

  Clark, Julie, 1971-

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  After meeting in an airport and swapping stories about their lives and desires to escape, two women end up swapping flights bound for different destinations. But when one plane crashes, the other woman learns there was more to her counterpart than…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Continental Affair

  Mangan, Christine (Christine Rose),

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  When Louise makes off with a bag of money intended for a criminal organization, it sets up a cat-and-mouse chase by train, only to have her pursuer become invested in her and her escape.

• One Last Stop

  McQuiston, Casey

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  August develops a crush on subway companion Jane, only to realize there are many obstacles to their potential love story--namely that Jane is stuck in a time loop.

• The Paris Express

  Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

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  Inspired by a true story, this novel follows the intersecting lives of passengers aboard an 1895 train from Granville to Paris who don't know one of them has a bomb aboard.

• Murder Takes a Vacation

  Lippman, Laura, 1959-

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  A mystery writer on a river cruise can't leave her day job behind when she gets caught up in a mystery invesigation of her own.

• The Cuban Heiress

  Cleeton, Chanel,

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  The lives of a jewel thief and an heiress, both harboring secrets, collide aboard the SS Morro cruise ship in this historical novel set in 1934.

• Never Been Shipped

  Thompson, Alicia, 1984-

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  When their band reunites for a themed cruise, Micah and John, former bandmates and friends, have five days onboard to see where life and love might take them this time around.

• A Pair of Wings

  a Novel Inspired by Pioneer Aviatrix Bessie Coleman

  Hopson, Carole

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  Bessie Coleman was a pioneering aviatrix who traveled to Europe to learn her craft after being denied opportunities in the United States. This biographical novel, written by a pilot, explores Coleman's fascinating life and adventures.

• The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

  Chakraborty, S. A.,

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  A retired sea captain gets her misfit crew back together for one last adventure, a quest to find a missing girl that puts them in the path of magical islands and a demon ex-husband.

• Bullet Train

  Isaka, Kōtarō, 1971-

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  One train. Five assassins. Who will come out on top in this fast-paced thriller?

• Flipping Boxcars

  Kyles, Cedric, 1965-

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  Comedian Cedric the Entertainer trades in comedy for crime caper in this novel about a train robbery scheme.