Up In the Air — Walter Kirn

Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor -- he fires people -- has kept him airborne for years. Although he despises his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls "Airworld." With a letter of resignation sitting on his boss's desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious firm, Bingham is agonizingly close to his ultimate goal: ONE MILLION FREQUENT-FLYER MILES.