I love short stories for travelling—I can read one or two on a domestic flight and then put it away without thinking about it all day while I’m doing other things. The Stories of John Cheever is a collection of 61 short stories

Do you do this too? Snatch out a moment anywhere you can to keep up with a great action book? That's Stephen King reading Lee Child's Tripwire between innings at the baseball—looks like he’s deep into one of Jack Reacher’s exploits. (Apparently King’s a big Boston Red Sox fan, so it’s not like he’s wishing he was somewhere else.)