Train Book List
*Please Note: This is not an exhaustive list of books featuring trains. Whenever we find new ones we like to add them to the list.*
If you are interested in finding more books about trains, visit our local library or talk to a librarian for more suggestions!
Children
- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (1985)
- A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond (1958)
- The Railway Series by Rev. Wilbert Awdry and Christopher Awdry
Young Adult
- Murder on 'The Canadian' by Eric Wilson
Adult Fiction
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (1934)
- The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton (1975)
- The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
- La Bete Humaine by Émile Zola (1890)
- Stories of the Railway by VL Whitechurch (1912)
- The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux (1975)
- Parallel Lines by Ian Marchant (2003)
- Around the World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1872)
- 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie (1957)
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (1950)
- Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood (1991)
- Murder on the Flying Scotsman by Carola Dunn (1996)
- Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett (2013)
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006)
- The Christmas Train by David Baldacci (2001)
- The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie (1928)
- Drood by Dan Simmons (2009)
- Railway Confessions – A Collection of Short Stories by Carolyn Moncel (2012)
- The Railway Station: A Social History by Jeffrey Richards and John M. MacKenzie (1986)
- The Oxford Companion to British Railway History by Oxford Press (1997)
- Union Pacific: Salt Lake Route by Mark Hemphill Boston Mills Press (1995)
- Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company, The: Historic Union Pacific Salt Lake Route (Second Edition) by John Signor Golden West Books (2020)