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
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
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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Thomas Ligotti
If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.
Thomas Ligotti , The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

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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