Best public-transport fiction

Description
Most of us spend a lot of time reading on public transport, but what about all those great stories in which buses, trains, ferries or metros play a role? From celestial omnibuses to Glaswegian busconductors...
1
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
20,660 members
472 reviews
4.1
4 Members
DaynaRT, aulsmith, cej1027, ahef1963
2
Night Train to Lisbon
by Pascal Mercier
3,394 members
108 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thorold, sneuper, Dilara86
3
The Polar Express
by Chris Van Allsburg
11,754 members
475 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
4
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau
2,894 members
57 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thorold, Dilara86
Explanations
thorold: 99 bus-ride stories. Or the same bus-ride story 99 times?
5
London Transports
by Maeve Binchy
830 members
13 reviews
3.2
2 Members
lahochstetler, ahef1963
6
What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
by Agatha Christie
5,387 members
121 reviews
3.8
2 Members
lahochstetler, ahef1963
7
The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
14,547 members
410 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
thorold, norabelle414
Explanations
thorold: Main character is a tram conductor
8
Zoo Station
by David Downing
862 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aulsmith, elkiedee
9
Strangers on a Train
by Patricia Highsmith
3,015 members
106 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
thorold, elkiedee
10
Raising Steam
by Terry Pratchett
4,228 members
131 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thorold, Dilara86
11
Stamboul Train
by Graham Greene
2,099 members
51 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
thorold, ahef1963
12
The Waste Lands
by Stephen King
15,973 members
218 reviews
4.1
Member
cthulhuslibrarian
13
Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson
2,265 members
129 reviews
3.9
Member
sneuper
14
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
1,890 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Actually this is mostly a story about not being able to ride on the Métro...
15
253
by Geoff Ryman
585 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
16
The Zigzag Kid
by David Grossman
423 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
SqueakyChu
17
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
15,230 members
310 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
18
The Train
by Georges Simenon
425 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
19
The Busconductor Hines
by James Kelman
246 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
20
The Roads Must Roll [short fiction]
by Robert A. Heinlein
71 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
21
Iron Council
by China Miéville
3,733 members
87 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
22
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
by Connie Willis
415 members
15 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
23
Corto viaggio sentimentale
by Italo Svevo
106 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Member
sneuper
24
Crazy Paving
by Louise Doughty
41 members
1 review
2.8
Member
elkiedee
25
Small Pleasures
by Clare Chambers
788 members
35 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
26
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories
by E. M. Forster
328 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
27
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
26,631 members
632 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
28
Railsea
by China Miéville
1,858 members
106 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
29
The Golden Rule
by Amanda Craig
97 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
elkiedee
30
The Third Level [short story]
by Jack Finney
7 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
31
Je n'ai pas eu le temps de bavarder avec toi
by Brahim Metiba
3 members
3.8
Member
Dilara86
32
La Bête Humaine
by Émile Zola
1,857 members
26 reviews
4
Member
thorold
33
The Edge
by Dick Francis
1,758 members
21 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
34
COLECTIVO, EL (Spanish Edition)
by Eugenia Almeida
23 members
3.8
Member
Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Another novel about people waiting for public transport rather than taking it...
35
The Sleeping-car Murders
by Sébastien Japrisot
347 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
36
The Other City
by Michal Ajvaz
220 members
8 reviews
4.1
Member
Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Tramway
37
L'orage rompu
by Jacqueline Harpman
20 members
3
Member
Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Train
38
The Appointment
by Herta Müller
816 members
29 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Tramride to an appointment with the secret police
39
Closely Watched Trains
by Bohumil Hrabal
1,203 members
32 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: A small Czech station during WWII
40
Eastbound
by Maylis de Kerangal
340 members
23 reviews
4.1
Member
Dilara86
Explanations
Dilara86: Transsiberian
41
Fundbüro
by Siegfried Lenz
113 members
7 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Novella set in a railway lost-property office
42
Train de nuit avec suspects
by Yōko Tawada
23 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
43
The Laughing Policeman
by Maj Sjöwall
2,002 members
66 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Classic Swedish detective story that opens with a shooting on a bus.
44
The day lasts more than a hundred years
by Chingiz Aitmatov
647 members
15 reviews
4.1
Member
Dilara86
45
Tuer, ne pas tuer
by Tchinghiz Aïtmatov
1 member
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
46
The Dead Lake
by Hamid Ismailov
116 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
47
The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
2,397 members
46 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
48
The White Steamship
by Tschingis Aitmatow
278 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
Dilara86
49
Il tram di Natale
by Giosue Calaciura
16 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Member
Dilara86
50
The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
21,772 members
1,188 reviews
½ 3.6
51
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
7,081 members
474 reviews
4
52
The New Life
by Orhan Pamuk
1,217 members
20 reviews
½ 3.3
53
Moscow to the End of the Line
by Venedikt Erofeev
1,061 members
20 reviews
3.9
54
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
by P. Djèlí Clark
1,055 members
78 reviews
4
55
Trains and Lovers
by Alexander McCall Smith
594 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
56
Flagman Thiel
by Gerhart Hauptmann
496 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
57
Peaces
by Helen Oyeyemi
433 members
14 reviews
½ 3.3
58
Compartment No. 6
by Rosa Liksom
279 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
59
Night of the Milky Way Railway
by Kenji Miyazawa
259 members
6 reviews
3.9
60
The Yellow Arrow (New Directions Paperbook)
by Viktor Pelevin
235 members
9 reviews
3.9
61
The Trolley
by Claude Simon
130 members
1 review
3.2
62
Subway Story
by Julia Sarcone-Roach
108 members
7 reviews
4.1
63
Netzkarte
by Sten Nadolny
77 members
1 review
½ 3.6
64
The Zero Train
by Yuri Buida
70 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
65
The Celestial Railroad [short fiction]
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
67 members
3.9
66
The Underground
by Hamid Ismailov
45 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
67
Strangers on the 16:02
by Priya Basil
34 members
2 reviews
2.8
68
Der Himmel unter Berlin
by Jaroslav Rudis
32 members
1 review
½ 3.4
69
Il tunnel
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
27 members
4
70
D-Zug dritter Klasse
by Irmgard Keun
19 members
½ 3.4
71
Die guten Tage: Roman
by Marko Dinic
13 members
1 review
4.1
72
U
by Timur Vermes
11 members
1 review
½ 3.3