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

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
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


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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Elizabeth Berg
Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.
Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

Aaron Lauritsen
Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

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