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Featured Genre:
Road Trip!
Sometimes you just want to throw a suitcase in the car and hit the road! There is a sense of freedom when you drive along America's highways and byways through unfamiliar places. In stories, a road trip often symbolizes the inner journey a character makes. If the price of gas is too high this summer, check out one of our road trip reads to travel without leaving your lawn chair. Reading takes you everywhere!
"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." Henry Miller
Road Trip!
Journey Along America's
Highways and Byways
Sometimes you just want to throw a suitcase in the car and hit the road! There is a sense of freedom when you drive along America's highways and byways through unfamiliar places. In stories, a road trip often symbolizes the inner journey a character makes. If the price of gas is too high this summer, check out one of our road trip reads to travel without leaving your lawn chair. Reading takes you everywhere!"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." Henry Miller
Road Trip Books
Fiction
Nonfiction
- Berg, Elizabeth The Pull of the Moon
- Bruckheimer, Linda Dreaming Southern
- Kadohata, Cynthia The Floating World
- Kerouac, Jack On the Road
- Kingsolver, Barbara Bean Trees
- McCarthy, Cormac The Road
- McCrumb, Sharyn St. Dale
- McLarty, Ron The Memory of Running
- McMurtry, Larry Loop Group, Cadillac Jack
- Samuel, Barbara Lady Luck's Map of Vegas
- Simpson, Mona Anywhere But Here
- Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
- Tyler, Anne Earthly Possessions, Breathing Lessons
- Waller, Robert James A Thousand Country Roads: an Epilogue to the Bridges of Madison County
- Williamson, Debrah Singing with the Top Down
Travel Guides
- 917.30492 BRYSON Bryson, Bill The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
- 917.3 JENKINS Jenkins, Peter A Walk Across America, The Walk West
- 973.92 KURALT Kuralt, Charles Charles Kuralt's America
- 917.3 HEAT Least Heat Moon, William Blue Highways: A Journey into America
- 917.3049 LEONARD Leonard, Mike The Ride of our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
- 973 PETERSON Peterson, Dale Storyville, USA
- 973.099 PIRSIG Pirsig, Robert M Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- 917.3049 STEINBECK Steinbeck, John Travels with Charley
To find these guides in the library:
- Fodor's
- Frommer's
- Lonely Planet
- Mobile
- Moon
- National Geographic
- Off the Beaten Path
- Rand McNally Road Atlas
- Smithsonian
Search for the series name
OR
Search for the state or city name and "guidebooks"
OR
Ask a librarian
Road Trip Movies
Available from the Athens Regional Library System:
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Breathing Lessons
- Broken Flowers
- Getting There
- Leaving Normal
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Lost in America
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Rain Man
- Smoke Signals
- Thelma & Louise
- Transamerica
Web Sites
Map your trip with:
www.randmcnally.com
www.mapquest.com
http://maps.google.com
Find out more:
www.aaa.com
www.roadtripamerica.com
www.roadsideamerica.com