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)
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
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
27 books — 19 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
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


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
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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Wendell Berry
There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
Wendell Berry, Remembering

J.R.R. Tolkien
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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