This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Planes, Trains & Automobiles/Books Featuring Travel (books whose plots involve travel or feature modes of transportation on the cover/title) (submitted by Cathy @ What Cathy Read Next)”.
I have listed below four books featuring planes, four with trains and two with automobiles!
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Planes
1. The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin – The story of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of the famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh, and an accomplished pilot in her own right.
2. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson – I’ve just recently finished this one, so no review yet. A group of ladies in post-WWI England form a motorcycle club, then come up with the idea of expanding to offer flying lessons to women.
3. Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie – A Poirot mystery in which a woman is found dead on a plane flying between Paris and London. After landing in England, Poirot must decide which of his fellow passengers was responsible for the murder.
4. The Wild Air by Rebecca Mascull – I loved this novel about a young woman who decides she wants to become an aviator and sets out to pursue her dream.
Trains
5. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith – Only a small part of this psychological thriller is actually set on a train, but it’s the scene of a very significant meeting between a pair of strangers who find themselves discussing a plan to commit two perfect murders!
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie – Christie wrote several novels set, or at least partly set, on trains: Murder on the Orient Express and 4.50 from Paddington are two others. In this one, Poirot investigates the murder of an American heiress found dead in her compartment on the famous Blue Train.
7. The Venice Train by Georges Simenon – Another psychological novel in which a man travelling from Venice to Paris by train agrees to deliver another passenger’s briefcase to an address in Switzerland. I read an English translation by Ros Schwartz.
8. The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks – An alternative history/fantasy novel set on the Great Trans-Siberian Express in 1899. A book that leaves us with lots to think about!
Automobiles
9. Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart – This suspense novel set in Provence is one of my favourites by Mary Stewart and features a very memorable car chase scene.
10. Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce – A sequel to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, in which Harold’s wife, Maureen, travels by car from the south of England to the north to visit a garden containing a memorial to her son.
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Have you read any of these? Which other books can you think of featuring forms of transport?
She Reads Novels 
I’ve only read Maureen Fry from your list but like the sound of The Hazlebourne Ladies.
The Hazelbourne Ladies is really good. My review should be up next week!
I’ve read both of the Christies and love them! 😀
The Mystery of the Blue Train isn’t one of my favourites, but I loved Death in the Clouds!
Both the Christies and I will hopefully read the Simenon and Highsmith.
I enjoyed both of those books, particularly the Simenon.
Love your choices for this week’s TTT! I really enjoyed Strangers on a Train, and I want to read the Hazelbourne Ladies one. That looks like fun. 😀
Yes, The Hazelbourne Ladies was fun. A perfect summer read!
I’ve read one Christie and the Hazelbourne book! I enjoyed it well enough, but airplanes didn’t play as large a role as I’d imagined. XD
Yes, I thought planes would play a bigger part in the Hazelbourne Ladies, but we didn’t see any until surprisingly late in the book!
I really enjoyed the Cautioius Traveller’s guide to the Wastelands. Another series I’ve enjoyed is Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express set in Siberia (logically 😃)
I don’t think I’ve come across that series. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
This time I’ve only read Strangers on a Train and Madam Will You Talk?
I’m surprised you haven’t read either of the Christies!
I don’t think I have. I have had The Blue Train on my radar.
Any list with a book by Rachel Joyce is a good one for me!
I’ve only read two Rachel Joyce books but enjoyed them both. I must read more of them!
I haven’t read any of these, but it is remarkable that Christie has so many books set on modes of transportation (definitely trains!)
I really want to read Strangers on a Train and Madam Will You Talk?
Here’s my list: https://franlaniado.wordpress.com/2024/08/13/top-ten-tuesday-road-trip-fiction/
Yes – and Christie also wrote Death on the Nile, set on a boat! Strangers on a Train is a fascinating book and Madam, Will You Talk? is one of Mary Stewart’s best, in my opinion. I would highly recommend them both.
These sound like great books! 😊
I can recommend all of them. 🙂