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Road Novels
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July 1999
Compiled by Joanna Hazelden
of the Chicago Public Library from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Abbey, Edward Fool's Progress
Adams, Douglas So Long & Thanks for the Fish
Blake, Michael Marching to Valhalla
Boles, Paul Darcy The Mississippi Run
Boswell, Robert Mystery Ride
Caldwell, Erskine Tobacco Road
Callaghan, Mary Rose I Met A Man Who Wasn't There
Childress, Mark Crazy in Alabama
Christie, Agatha Murder on the Orient Express
Cohen, Wm. The Double Man
Constable, George Where You Are
Day, Robert The Last Cattle Drive
Dickey, James To the White Sea
**Dreiser, Theodore Hoosier Holiday (travel narrative) NPR called it the book that created the road novel genre.**
Easterman, David The Ninth Buddha
Estleman, Loren Motor City Blue
Estleman, Loren Stress
Faulkner, Willam. The Reivers
Faulkner, Willam The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain
Gallico, Paul The Poseidon Adventure
Gifford, Barry Wild At Heart
Greenberg, Joanne Where the Road Goes
Greene, Bob All Summer Long
Harson, Dylan Kansas Blue
Hogan, Wm. The Quartersize Trip
Kadohata, Cynthia The Floating World
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Kingsolver, Barbara Pigs In Heaven
Kupfer, Fern No Regrets
Lewis, Sinclair Free Air
Lopez, Erika Flaming Iguanas
MacLeish, Roderick The First Book of Eppe
Malone, Michael Handling sin
McCarthy, Cormac The Crossing
McCloskey, Wm. Highliners
McMurty, Larry Cadillac Jack
McMurty, Larry Pretty Boy Floyd
Mead, Robert Douglas Heartland
Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita
Nance, John J. Medusa's Child
O'Coonor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
Pynchon, Thomas Mason & Dixon
Robertson, Don Praise the Human Season
Simpson, Mona Anywhere But Here
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Janet Departure: A Novel
Talbout, Michael The Ends of the Earth
Twain, Mark Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark Roughing It
Tyler, Anne Earthly Possessions
Tyler, Anne Ladder of Years
Unsworth, Barry Sacred Hunger
Voight, Cynthia Dicey's Song
Wheeler, Kate Not Where I Started From
Wheeler, Richard S. Sierra
Williams, Jeanne The Longest Road
*Walk Two Moons* (a young adult novel) by Sharon Creech.
OTHER AUTHORS
Anderson, Alisa
Bontempelli, Bruno
Brookner, Anita
Forster, E.M.
Hodge, Joan Aiken
James, Henry
Jong, Erica
Frederick, Lenz
Louie, Andrea
Morgan, Marie
Soister, Helena
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