Great Road Novels (36 books)

Great Road Novels

Novels about journeys on the road, transitional characters, drifters, and exotic places

1	The Road by Cormac McCarthy 3.93 avg rating — 149,242 ratings score: 293, and 3 people voted	My rating:
2	infernal drums by Anthony Wright 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	My rating:
3	On the Road by Jack Kerouac 3.63 avg rating — 80,544 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	My rating:
4	In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker 3.99 avg rating — 514 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	My rating:
5	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 3.81 avg rating — 139,572 ratings score: 193, and 2 people voted	My rating:
5	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson 4.07 avg rating — 52,787 ratings score: 193, and 2 people voted	My rating:
7	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig 3.63 avg rating — 37,502 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	My rating:
8	The Music of Chance by Paul Auster 3.83 avg rating — 2,404 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	My rating:
9	Finding Signs by Sharlene Baker 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	My rating:
10	The Widows' Adventures by Charles Dickinson 3.80 avg rating — 80 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	My rating:
11	Spinsters by Pagan Kennedy 3.29 avg rating — 112 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	My rating:
12	Heading West by Doris Betts 3.32 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	My rating:
13	Unknown Book 10588976 by Unknown Author 977 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	My rating:
13	Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler 3.63 avg rating — 1,190 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	My rating:
15	Unknown Book 10594784 by Unknown Author 785 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 94, and 1 person voted	My rating:
15	The Chinchilla Farm by Judith Freeman 3.45 avg rating — 76 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	My rating:
17	All Summer Long: A Novel by Bob Greene 3.59 avg rating — 59 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	My rating:
18	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 3.83 avg rating — 16,214 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	My rating:
18	Last Orders by Graham Swift 3.61 avg rating — 1,914 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	My rating:
20	King of the Road by Paul Hemphill 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	My rating:
21	Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 4.40 avg rating — 28,608 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	My rating:
21	The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata 3.44 avg rating — 48 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	My rating:
23	In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin 3.78 avg rating — 1,761 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	My rating:
23	Turnip Blues by Helen Campbell 3.13 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	My rating:
25	The Places in Between by Rory Stewart 3.80 avg rating — 4,207 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	My rating:
25	Northern Exposure: A Novel by Ann duMais McCormick 2.00 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	My rating:
27	So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams 3.99 avg rating — 31,018 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	My rating:
27	Going to the Sun by James McManus 3.82 avg rating — 74 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	My rating:
29	Marching to Valhalla: A Novel of Custer's Last Days by Michael Blake (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	My rating:
30	The Mississippi Run by Paul Darcy Boles 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	My rating:
31	Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell 3.59 avg rating — 1,962 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	My rating:
32	To the White Sea by James Dickey 3.81 avg rating — 292 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	My rating:
33	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.82 avg rating — 41,021 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	My rating:
34	Free Air by Sinclair Lewis 3.61 avg rating — 70 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	My rating:
35	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 3.78 avg rating — 101,479 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	My rating:
36	Dance of the Coyote by Bill Hotchkiss 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 79, and 1 person voted	My rating: