A different slant to flying and an interesting one are two books by Mark Vanhoenacker an airline pilot who is gay and writes about his life on the way to and on the flight deck time in certain global cities from a pilots viewpoint , not from the flight deck but as an airline pilot might see them little time there but often. Mark r is a Belgian-American Boeing 787 pilot with British Airways and is also frequent contributor for the New York Times, The two books I've read -audiobooks- Skyfaring and Imagine a City .were really good and with a different slant on aviation and flying the world