Caught Reading at the Airport, January 2016

Holiday travelers, we know you're sometimes excited and sometimes weary, but always ready to be done with the airport. Holiday travel does have one thing going for it: uninterrupted reading time. Yep, we caught you reading at the airport. Most of you were using the time to get lost in engrossing novels, while some of you chose Hollywood memoirs. Let's take a look at the books keeping you company at 30,000 feet.

On the way back from Knoxville, we caught you reading Station Eleven, a gripping, imaginative look at life after a flu pandemic kills most of the world's population. One of our Best of the Best 2014 selections, Station Eleven moves seamlessly through time and place, connecting the people and stories that keep this new world going.

Station Eleven is available in other formats.

On the same flight, we caught you reading In the Heart of the Sea, one of the few nonfiction books we saw. Perhaps it was a follow-up to seeing the film adaptation during your travels? The book recounts the wreck of the Essex, a Nantucket whaleship destroyed by a whale in 1820, which inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

In the Heart of the Sea is available in other formats.

On a flight from Philadelphia to Indianapolis (We had crazy weather re-routes, too.), we caught you reading The Girl on the Train, a psychological thriller known for an unreliable narrator who will keep you guessing until the end. And waiting in Detroit we caught you reading The Girl in the Spider's Web, the fourth installment in the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. The controversy over a new author for this series gave fans of Lisbeth Salander lots to talk about in 2015—the new year is a great time to find out what you think of him.

The Girl on the Train is available in other formats.

The Girl in the Spider's Web is available in other formats.

On that same layover, we caught you reading the practically classic Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner, a funny, insightful look at coming back from a failed relationship and public humiliation, and The Color of Earth, a graphic novel that chronicles the coming of age of a girl in rural Korea in what Publishers Weekly calls "a moving and evocative look at love."

Back in the air we caught you reading celebrity memoirs Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes and Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling. TV show creator Rhimes describes how her life changed when the say-no-to-everything introvert started saying yes to everything that scared her. Actress and writer Kaling, author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns), is back with more laugh-out-loud essays.

Year of Yes is available in other formats.

Why Not Me? is available in other formats.

And, of course, we caught many of you reading magazines: Bon AppetitRedbook and Wired, to name a few. Find these titles and many more online in Zinio for Libraries.