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Road Trip USA
Books about road trips across the United States
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June 2001
Compiled by Kelly Benson
of Three Rivers Public Library District, 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.)
Fiction
Alpert, Catherine. Rocket City.
Brinkley, David. Majic Bus.
Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods, Lost Continent.
Campbell, Helen. Turnip Blues (Two ladies in their seventies road trip to Bessie Smith's grave.)
Chalfoun, Michelle. Roustabout (A woman runs away to be a fair midway worker and spends her summer on the road.)
Childress, Mark. Crazy in Alabama.
Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons.
Dickinson, Charles. The Widow's Adventures.
Dodge, Jim. Not Fade Away.
Edmonds, Mark Tiger. Longrider: A Tale of Just Passing Through.
Greene, Bob. All Summer Long.
Greenfeld, Josh. Harry and Tonto.
Hemphill, Paul. King of the Road.
Hill, Weldon. Lonesome Traveller.
Kennedy, Pagan. Spinsters.
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road
Kingsolver, Barbara. Bean Trees & Pigs in Heaven
Lehrer, Jim. White Widow.
Malone, Michael. Handling Sin.
McManus, James. Going to the Sun. (A woman rides her bike from Chicago to Alaska.)
McMurty, Larry
Nabokov, Vladimir. L Lolita.
Paulsen, Gary. Pilgrimage on a Steelride.
Percy, Walker. The Last Gentleman.
Phillips, Susan E. First Lady
Shainee Gabel & Kristin Hahn. Anthem.
Simpson, Mona. Anywhere But Here.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Tyler, Anne. Earthly Possessions.
Non-Fiction
Abraham, Marilyn J. First We Quit Our Jobs . . .
America: True Stories of Life on the Road, edited by Fred Stetterberg.
Bryson, Bill. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America.
Cahill, Tim. Road Fever: A High Speed Travelogue.
Clark, Marian. The Route 66 Cookbook.
Codrescu, Andre. Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century.
Condon, Sean. Drive thru America.
Genovese, Peter. The Great American Road Trip.
Harris, Eddy L. Mississippi Solo.
Hubbell, Sue. Far-Flung Hubbell.
Jenkins, Peter. A Walk Across America
Kirby, Dough. New Roadside America.
Kurtz, Irma. The Great American Bus Ride: An Intrepid Womanās Cross-Country Adventure.
Lamb, David. Over the Hills: A Midlife Escape Across America by Bicycle.
Least Heat Moon, William. Blue Highways.
McAdoo, Richard. Eccentric Circles Around America in a House on Wheels.
Paterniti, Michael. Driving Mr. Albert: a Trip across America with Einstein's Brain.
Peterson, Dale. Storyville, USA.
Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Purdum, Stan. Roll Around Heaven All Day: A Piecemeal Journey Across America by Bicycle.
Savage, Scott. A Plain Life: Walking My Belief.
Sheer, George. Booked on the Morning Train.
Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley
Sundeen, Mark. Car Camping: The Book of Desert Adventures.
Synder, Tom. Route 66 Travelerās Guide and Roadside Companion.
Wallis, Michael. Route 66: The Mother Road.
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