I'll second The Kite Runner, and Alexander McCaul Smith. Try his 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom, The Portuguese Irregular Verbs Trilogy. Rather intellectual, but incredibly funny--I thought David was going to die laughing, I read this book on the flight to Nice in June, and he read it on Voyager.


Wendy
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Booked: Uniworld Egypt, 2015
Tauck Amsterdam to Budapest, 2016
Paul Gauguin, Societies & Tuamotus 2016