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"

We Burned So Bright
This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
Enemies to Lovers
Wish We Were Here
Star Shipped
Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
Show Me (Play Me #3)
Almost Criminal
A Much Maligned Miss (Victorian Reversal of Fortune, #2)
The Road to Tender Hearts
Duke (Lucky River Ranch, #4)
The Rest of Our Lives
The Lincoln Highway
PS: I Hate You
Slags
Left of Forever (Spunes, OR, #2)
The Hitchhikers
Run for the Hills
Show Me (Play Me #3)
You, with a View
The Road Trip
Mistakes We Never Made (Mistakes We Never Made, #1)
The Truth Is in the Detours
The Bayou Never Tells
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Odyssey by HomerThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Road Trip
529 books — 269 voters
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

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Wanderlust
1,089 books — 1,189 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacThe Road by Cormac McCarthy84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffTobacco Road by Erskine CaldwellThe Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
Road in the Title
679 books — 32 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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