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This shocked me: "The day before Thanksgiving isn’t just the most popular day of the year for travel—it’s also the biggest day for reading. According to a survey conducted by Barnes & Noble, more Americans crack a book on the day before Thanksgiving than on any other day. This is mainly because of the fourth Wednesday in November’s popularity as a day for travel. A whopping 77 percent of survey respondents said that they generally read
something—whether a book,
magazine, or newspaper
—while traveling on Thanksgiving Eve or around the holidays in general. Three-quarters of the participants believed that reading makes Thanksgiving travel more enjoyable."
Also, "28 percent of respondents believed that a book could be a great subject-changer should the Thanksgiving table chatter take an awkward turn." We try to stay away from both politics and religion, as well as sex, drugs, and rock and roll (OK, rock and roll is okay now).
For those of you with short attention spans, here are eighteen classics that can be read in just one day:
• The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Little Prince-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Macbeth-Wild Will Shakespeare
• Breakfast at Tiffany's-Truman
Capote
• Between the World and Me-Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway
• Tuck Everlasting-Natalie Babbitt
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-Robert Louis Stevenson
• Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
• A Christmas Carol-Charlie Dickens
• Animal Farm-George Orwell
• The Stranger-Albert Camus
• Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-Doug Adams
• Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle-Shirley Jackson
• The Color Purple-Alice Walker
• The Fault In Our Stars-John Green
A good fall back book is something about California. How about: In his 1962 novel, the American novelist Jack Kerouac writes of his alter ego’s (Jack Duluoz) three brief stays in his friend’s cabin in Bixby Canyon,
Big Sur punctuated by crazier times and excursions in San Francisco.
Big Sur explores themes of paranoia and returning to nature, while also considering the effects of success, excess, and alcohol — contemporary problems still quite relevant in the country. Some other favorites of mine (based on states): The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), In Cold Blood (Capote), Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriett Beecher Stowe), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter Thompson), The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), and Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson), If you are like me, I
prefer something very light when I travel. I usually choose a John Grisham novel, and Sheri chooses a Jane Green novel. I often trade my book for another at certain hotels, or with strangers at airports. I also carry a guide book or two, and I always like to read either a biography or historical story about the place I am going.
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