year that the company "maintain[ed] the dignity of literature by resolutely refusing to admit pernicious publications", The Times—noting the enormous success of The Parlour Library—surmised that "persons of the better class, who constitute the larger portion of railway readers, lose their accustomed taste the moment they smell the engine and present themselves to the railway librarian". Writers of airport novels Writers whose books have been described as airport novels include: Jeffrey Archer David Baldacci Peter Benchley Dan Brown Lee Child Suzanne Collins Michael Crichton Tom Clancy Clive Cussler Robert P. Davis Ian Fleming Vince Flynn Frederick Forsyth John Grisham Arthur Hailey Thomas Harris E.L. James Stephen King Stieg Larsson Robert Ludlum Andy McNab Stephenie Meyer James Patterson Jodi Picoult Matthew Reilly Chris Ryan Nicholas Sparks Danielle Steel Gérard de Villiers In popular culture The animated television series The Simpsons included a joke in the episode "The Joy of Sect" (airdate February 8, 1998), in which an airport bookstore is named "JUST CRICHTON AND KING". Hans Moleman asks, "Do you have anything by Robert Ludlum?" and is told by the clerk to get out. See also Potboiler Yellow-back References External links Mike Rozak contemplates the difference between airport novels and classic novels. Literary genres Books by type Book terminology Aviation mass media