Cars

A car is a wheeled, self-powered motor vehicle used for transportation and a product of the automotive industry. Most definitions of the term specify that cars are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels with tyres, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the modern car. In that year, German inventor Karl Benz built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars did not become widely available until the early 20th century. One of the first cars that was a ...more

The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
Surviving to Drive
Grand Prix: An Illustrated History of Formula 1
The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris―The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
Bluff (Stacked Deck, #6)
Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership: Uncomplicating Cars for All of Us
Little Fox and the Wild Imagination
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Racing in the Dark: How the Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans
A Letter for Bob: An Award-Winning Indigenous Picture Book About Family and Memories for Children (Ages 4-8)
Bye, Car
Backtrack, Vol. 1
Road Trip!: A Whiskers Hollow Adventure
How To Build A Car
How Cars Work
All the Way to Havana
Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
Christine
If I Built a Car (If I Built Series)
From a Buick 8
My Car: A Wonderful Story About Vehicles, Colors, Shapes, and Community for Preschoolers
Toot Toot Beep Beep
Moo!
Clarkson on Cars
Car: The Definitive Visual History
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car
Car Science
Number One Sam
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Cab Driver and Taxi Books
111 books — 10 voters

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleHarold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonIf You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe NumeroffCorduroy by Don FreemanPete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin
Preschool-'C'
54 books — 10 voters
Batouala by René MaranDark Age by Brian TitleyCulture and Customs of the Central African Republic by Jacqueline C. WoodforkCo-Wives, Co-Widows by Adrienne YabouzaDaba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui by Makombo Bamboté
Books Set in Central African Republic
24 books — 11 voters

Driving with Dead People by Monica HollowaySix Feet Under or Up in Smoke by Jim EamesA Tale Du Mort by Katrina MonroeGood Mourning by Elizabeth MeyerThe Country Undertaker by Jim Eames
Hearse
7 books — 3 voters


Roman Payne
It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!
Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

Patricia Briggs
Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him. ...more
Patricia Briggs, Silver Borne

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