Harry Turtledove (spoiler alert: light reading, suitable, for uh, deadheading) is great on an e-reader.

Current rec: "A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution"- Theodore Draper.

Excellent read about the American Revolution from the English "colonists" (re: opportunists with a charter/patent..nothing wrong with that.), the British, and the French concerns about the whole fracas.

Get the hardback from the usual vendors for a couple of bucks and change. A bit "scholastic" (narrative choices necessary to make history interesting); if you're into the US revolution, you can do a whole lot worse than this book. NOT a hagiography,. but not Howard Zinn either.



(https://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Powe.../dp/0812925750)