Books Set on a Train or Ship

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Updated December 17, 2025
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Books Set on a Train or Ship

Participating in Winter Books & Bites Bingo? Try these books set on a train or ship.

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Dead silence
Barnes, S. A.
Paper Book
A Best Book of 2022 by the New York Public Library * One of the Best SFF Books of 2022 (Gizmodo) * One of the Best SF Mysteries of 2022 (CrimeReads) * A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Science Fiction! Titanic meets Event Horizon...
The scourge between stars
Brown, Ness
Paper Book
Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. "A perfect scare to swallow up in one sitting." --Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times...
Murder on the Orient Express : a Hercule Poirot Mystery
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
THE EXCLUSIVE AUTHORIZED EDITION OF THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH "The murderer is with us--on the train now . . ." Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in...
Water for elephants : a novel
Gruen, Sara.
Paper Book
Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide #1 New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006 A USA Today Bestseller A Major Motion Picture starring...
The girl on the train
Hawkins, Paula.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt.   The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives, from the author of Into...
Bullet train : a novel
Isaka, Kōtarō
Paper Book
Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller that fizzes with incredible energy through a series of double-crosses and twists. "Fueled by a seductively explosive premise, it's fast, deadly, and loads of fun." (NPR's Fresh Air) An...
Dead wake the last crossing of the Lusitania
Larson, Erik
CD
#1 New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed...
Flight of dreams A Novel
Lawhon, Ariel.
Ebook
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River, this "enthralling nail-biter" (People) of a novel brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to life. "At every page a guilty secret bobs up; at every page Lawhon keeps us guessing....
Moby Dick
Melville, Herman
Ebook
Moby Dick (1851) is an epic tale of the conflict between man and his fate. Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to destroy the great white whale that tore off his leg leads the Pequod and its crew to disaster. Melville's extraordinary narrative defies classification: it teems with ideas and imagery and...
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