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 Kids (Ages 4-8)
Bye, Car
Backtrack, Vol. 1
Road Trip!: A Whiskers Hollow Adventure
How To Build A Car
How Cars Work
Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
All the Way to Havana
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
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Clarkson on Cars
Car: The Definitive Visual History
Auto Repair For Dummies
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Car Science
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
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksChitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian FlemingThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Sounds
668 books — 51 voters

Case Histories by Kate AtkinsonKarma for Beginners by Jessica BlankBecoming Chloe by Catherine Ryan HydeThe After Life by Daniel EhrenhaftFarangi Girl  Growing Up in Iran by Ashley Dartnell
Dashboards
14 books — 6 voters
Ride or Die by Gail-Agnes MusikavanhuCatch the Rabbit by Lana BastašićBlonde Ambition by Zoey DeanKarma for Beginners by Jessica BlankYou Don't Know About Me by Brian Meehl
Car Mirrors
23 books — 4 voters

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonPaper Towns by John GreenAn Abundance of Katherines by John Green13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen JohnsonA Walk Between Raindrops by Amalie Jahn
YA Roadtrip Fiction
65 books — 121 voters
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy E. Shaw'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John  FordEclipse by Stephenie MeyerOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
It's not a car -- it's a book!
165 books — 25 voters


Robin McKinley
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