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A Book about a Road Trip: 2021 Reading Challenge

Blatt, Ben

I Don’t Care If We Never Get Back: 30 Games in 30 Days on the Best Worst Baseball Road Trip Ever

A pair of friends embark on a road trip to see thirty baseball games in thirty different stadiums over thirty days and describe their misadventures in this book about sports fans, loyalty, hot dogs, and friendship.


Brockmole, Jessica

Woman Enters Left

Intertwines the tale of 1950s movie star Louise, who sets out on a road trip from California to New Jersey when she inherits a screenwriter’s estate, and the story of Florrie and Ethel when they travel to Los Angeles in the 1920s.


Brown, Carolyn

The Empty Nesters

Three friends and army wives embark on a journey with a recently widowed elderly neighbor as they deal with the emotions of their daughters’ decision to enlist in the army together as well as the pain of divorce.


Cook, Claire

Time Flies

Having reluctantly moved to New England only to see her marriage end, successful metal sculptor Melanie is compelled to attend her high-school reunion and fantasizes about reconnecting with an old flame while struggling with her driving phobia.


Chang, Jade

The Wangs vs. the World

A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent, and the road trip they take across America that binds them back together.


Crandall, Susan

Whistling Past the Graveyard

A wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing roadtrip.


Higgins, Kristin

My One and Only

When she makes a cross-country trip with her ex-husband Nick, divorce attorney Harper James, who is engaged to another man, cannot deny the feelings that still linger between them and wonders if they can get it right this time.


Kugler, Rob

A Dog Named Beautiful: a Marine, a Dog and a Long Road Trip Home

A medically retired Marine recounts the poignant road journey he and his beloved chocolate lab shared in the final months of the dog’s life.


Macomber, Debbie

A Turn In the Road

Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They’re driving to Florida for Ruth’s 50th high school reunion. A long-time widow, Ruth would like very much to reconnect with Royce, the love of her youth.


Merullo, Roland

The Delight of Being Ordinary: A Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama

This playful, eloquent, and life-affirming novel finds the world’s two holiest men teaming up for an unsanctioned road trip through the Italian countryside.


Ratay, Richard

Don’t Make Me Pull Over! : An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

Explores the history of the family road trip, how its evolution mirrored the evolution of the United States, and why road trips have largely disappeared.

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