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"

The Halifax Hellions (Halifax Hellions, #1-2)
Liberated
Hard Feelings (Serendipity & Shenanigans)
The Grumpiest Billionaire (Small Town Sisterhood #2)
Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar
The Road to Tender Hearts
The Rest of Our Lives
Duke (Lucky River Ranch, #4)
The Lincoln Highway
PS: I Hate You
Slags
Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
Left of Forever (Spunes, OR, #2)
Run for the Hills
The Hitchhikers
You, with a View
Not Our Daughter
The Grumpiest Billionaire (Small Town Sisterhood #2)
Tangled Up in You (Meant to Be, #4)
Mistakes We Never Made (Mistakes We Never Made, #1)
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
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonPaper Towns by John GreenAn Abundance of Katherines by John Green13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen JohnsonTwo-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
Young Adult Road Trip Novels
392 books — 1,939 voters
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffCannery Row by John SteinbeckAnd to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. SeussThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
City Streets
876 books — 104 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
2,033 books — 3,943 voters


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Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road. We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.
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