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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The Roommate Rule
Return to Sender
Just a Highland Fling
Fossil Feud
Road Trip
The Very Definition of Love
Lost in the Summer of '69
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Good at Being Alive
Chase Me If You Can
Beginning Middle End
In Every Possible Way
You Won't Forget Me
The Guest Book
Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
The Road to Tender Hearts
Road Trip
Return to Sender
Duke (Lucky River Ranch, #4)
The Lincoln Highway
Left of Forever (Spunes, OR, #2)
Slags
The Rest of Our Lives
Beginning Middle End
PS: I Hate You
Chase Me If You Can
Lost in the Summer of '69
The Road Trip
Run for the Hills
You, with a View
You, with a View by Jessica  JoycePeople We Meet on Vacation by Emily HenryMrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah   AdlerSomething Wilder by Christina LaurenPowerless by Elsie Silver
Travel Romances
169 books — 21 voters
Absurdimals by Gwendolyn JavorBaby in the Garden by Catherine HabbieLlama Llama Holiday Drama by Anna DewdneyChicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.Oliver and Jumpy, Stories 46-48 by Werner Stejskal
Cute Children's Kindle Picture Books
28 books — 20 voters

Paper Towns by John  GreenLet's Get Lost by Adi AlsaidRoyally Lost by Angie StantonRivers of London by Ben AaronovitchNo Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown
Fiction with Map Covers
59 books — 29 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
54 books — 25 voters

The Dead I Know by Scot GardnerWaiting for Normal by Leslie ConnorDogtripping by David RosenfeltMotorhomes, Maps, & Murder by Tonya KappesItch by Michelle D. Kwasney
Campers
76 books — 21 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
2,053 books — 3,994 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
A Week to be Wicked (Spindle Cove, #2)
Open Road Summer
The Road to Tender Hearts
Run for the Hills

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Erik Pevernagie
We cannot wait for the other shoe to drop, when the road becomes unendurably bumpy. If the aura of truth starts to wane and the light of the sky begins to splinter, only resilience can settle things. (“Steaming ahead”)
Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie
A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. (“A thousand times”)
Erik Pevernagie

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