Road Trip

“All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change.” And with this simple statement, the chain of events leading to Huck Finn’s trip down the Mississippi River begins.
However, if we’re settling down with a contemporary book, chances are that our travels aren’t going to happen on a river, but rather out on the open highway.
But what is a road trip novel? What makes one book a road tale and another a vacation story? Dictionary.com says a road trip is “a journey via automobile, sometimes unplanned or impromptu.” Well…yes and no. A road trip novel does not always need to be in a car (som
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New Releases Tagged "Road Trip"

Hard Feelings (Serendipity & Shenanigans)
The Grumpiest Billionaire (Small Town Sisterhood #2)
Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar
Duke (Lucky River Ranch, #4)
My Favorite Fake Romance (The Favorites #3)
In a Second (Friendship, Rhode Island #3)
The Road to Tender Hearts
The Rest of Our Lives
Duke (Lucky River Ranch, #4)
Not Our Daughter
The Lincoln Highway
Left of Forever (Spunes, OR, #2)
The Grumpiest Billionaire (Small Town Sisterhood #2)
Run for the Hills
PS: I Hate You
Resisting the Alien Rider (Cowboy Colony Mail-Order Brides, #3)
You, with a View
Hard Feelings (Serendipity & Shenanigans)
My Favorite Fake Romance (The Favorites #3)
The Hitchhikers
Mistakes We Never Made (Mistakes We Never Made, #1)
Walk Two Moons by Sharon CreechThe Saucepan Journey by Edith UnnerstadThe Solitaire Mystery by Jostein GaarderAn Occasionally Happy Family by Cliff BurkeThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Family Road Trips in Fiction
30 books — 3 voters
Zero at the Bone by Jane SevilleSpecial Delivery by Heidi CullinanArmed & Dangerous by Abigail RouxDrawn Together by Z.A. MaxfieldPerfect Imperfections by Cardeno C.
Best Road Trip Gay Romance
171 books — 157 voters

Julia and the Art of Practical Travel by Lesley M.M. BlumeSurvival Strategies of the Almost Brave by Jen  WhiteSisters by Raina TelgemeierSavvy by Ingrid LawDrive Me Crazy by Terra Elan McVoy
Middle Grade Road Trip Books
53 books — 24 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Favorite Travel Books
2,026 books — 3,940 voters

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
Paper Towns
An Abundance of Katherines
The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never, #1)
Saving June
You, with a View
On the Road
The Road Trip
Two-Way Street
In Honor
Mosquitoland
Open Road Summer
A Week to be Wicked (Spindle Cove, #2)
Let's Get Lost (English Edition)
Run for the Hills

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