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)
A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1)
Duke (Lucky River Ranch, #4)
My Favorite Fake Romance (The Favorites #3)
The Road to Tender Hearts
Astérix en Lusitanie (Asterix #41)
The Lincoln Highway
Run for the Hills
Not Our Daughter
In a Second (Friendship, Rhode Island #3)
Claus and Effect (Holiday Romances)
PS: I Hate You
Left of Forever (Spunes, OR, #2)
The Rest of Our Lives
Never Over
The Hitchhikers
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
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Best Road Trip Gay Romance
171 books — 157 voters

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Road in the Title
677 books — 30 voters
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Young Adult Road Trip Novels
385 books — 1,938 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
Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. A ...more
Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

Sylvia Plath
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. ...more
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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