30 of Your Favorite Road Trip Books
This Riot Recommendation is sponsored by A Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install.
Ben’s really great at failing at things—his job, being a husband, taking the garbage out. But then he finds a battered robot named Tang in his garden. And Tang needs Ben. More ornery and prone to tantrums than one would expect from something made of gears and springs, Tang desperately must be fixed—and he just might be the thing to fix what’s broken in Ben. Together they will discover that friendship can rise up under the strangest of circumstances, and what it really means to be human.
There’s just something about warmer weather that makes a road trip book sound like the perfect reading. Road trip books are fun, offer a lot of opportunity for strange and bizarre experiences, and they can offer a slice of life in places people don’t always know about. We asked you to tell us what your favorite road trip books were, and you answered. Get ready to get reading! American Gods by Neil Gaiman American Nomads by Richard Grant Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai The Car by Gary Paulsen Carsick by John Waters The Drifters by James Michener Flaming Iguanas by Erika Lopez Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Going Bovine by Libba Bray The Great Divide by Emily Kiernan Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Kissing in America by Margo Rabb The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson Not Quite Husband by Sherry Thomas On the Road by Jack Kerouac One Plus One by Jojo Moyes Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie The Road by Cormac McCarthy Setting Free The Bears by John Irving The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Ben’s really great at failing at things—his job, being a husband, taking the garbage out. But then he finds a battered robot named Tang in his garden. And Tang needs Ben. More ornery and prone to tantrums than one would expect from something made of gears and springs, Tang desperately must be fixed—and he just might be the thing to fix what’s broken in Ben. Together they will discover that friendship can rise up under the strangest of circumstances, and what it really means to be human.
There’s just something about warmer weather that makes a road trip book sound like the perfect reading. Road trip books are fun, offer a lot of opportunity for strange and bizarre experiences, and they can offer a slice of life in places people don’t always know about. We asked you to tell us what your favorite road trip books were, and you answered. Get ready to get reading! American Gods by Neil Gaiman American Nomads by Richard Grant Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai The Car by Gary Paulsen Carsick by John Waters The Drifters by James Michener Flaming Iguanas by Erika Lopez Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Going Bovine by Libba Bray The Great Divide by Emily Kiernan Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Kissing in America by Margo Rabb The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson Not Quite Husband by Sherry Thomas On the Road by Jack Kerouac One Plus One by Jojo Moyes Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie The Road by Cormac McCarthy Setting Free The Bears by John Irving The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
