Start with high-confidence commercial aviation books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Airline Maps
Mark Ovenden, Maxwell Roberts
Come Fly the World
Julia Cooke
Flight 232
Laurence Gonzales
Flying Blind
Feodor Chin, Peter Robison
A Field Guide to Airplanes, Third Edition
M. R. Montgomery
Inside the Sky
William Langewiesche
The Black Box
Malcolm Macpherson
Aircraft
DK, D.K. Publishing
Michael O'leary
Matt Cooper
Drones for Dummies
Mark LaFay
Fly Girl
Ann Hood
Boeing Versus Airbus
John Newhouse
Concorde
Mike Bannister
Cockpit Confidential
Patrick Smith
Airplane Flying Handbook
Federal Aviation Administration
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
Jet Age
Sam Howe Verhovek
The Flight 981 Disaster
Samme Chittum
Flight
Mark Phelps, Flying Magazine Editors of
Aviation Weather
(N/A) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Remote Pilot Test Prep 2025-2026
ASA Test Prep Board
FAR/AIM 2026
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)/Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)/Aviation Supplies & Academics (Asa)
Twelve Years of Turbulence
Gary Kennedy, Terry Maxon
