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"

Duke (Lucky River Ranch, #4)
My Favorite Fake Romance (The Favorites #3)
In a Second (Friendship, Rhode Island #3)
Secret Nights and Northern Lights
Planes, Reins, and Automobiles (Catching Feelings, #2)
Moonlit Nights & Northern Lights (The Killigrew Street Case Files, #2)
Duke (Lucky River Ranch, #4)
The Road to Tender Hearts
A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1)
My Favorite Fake Romance (The Favorites #3)
The Lincoln Highway
Not Our Daughter
Astérix en Lusitanie (Asterix #41)
Run for the Hills
PS: I Hate You
The Rest of Our Lives
Left of Forever (Spunes, OR, #2)
The Road Trip
You, with a View
Mistakes We Never Made (Mistakes We Never Made, #1)
In a Second (Friendship, Rhode Island #3)
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
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
53 books — 24 voters

The Parrot's Tale by Miller CaldwellPaper Towns by John GreenLet's Get Lost by Adi AlsaidRoyally Lost by Angie StantonRivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Fiction with Map Covers
56 books — 33 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
677 books — 30 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
Two-Way Street
The Road Trip
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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Charlotte Eriksson
I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definitio ...more
Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

Lana Del Rey
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.
Lana Del Rey

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