Although gas prices are generally keeping people closer to home this summer, I hope you get the chance to have at least one long weekend away. If your plans include flying, it would be a good idea to have a book with you to make your wait at the airport more pleasant. This list of suggested airport reading includes books that are fast paced enough to make time fly by and engaging enough to keep your attention from people watching or starring at whatever is playing on the airport news channel.

Sandworms of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson is the final novel in the Dune Chronicles, a series of novels set in an immersive sci-fi universe created by Herbert’s father Frank and often compared to the Lord of the Rings in its scope and depth. All the events from the original series by the elder Herbert and the prequels by Herbert and Anderson come together here for an ending that is mostly satisfying, though not majestic.

• Read a complete review of Sandworms of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

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