Book Reviews: Road Trips and the Semantics of the Road

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Across the Continent by The Lincoln Highway by Effie Price Gladding
• Adele in Sand Land by Claude Pont
• The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
• Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl by Daniel Pinkwater
• All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
• Along a Long Road by Frank Viva
• The American Highway by William Kaszynsk
• American Road by Pete Davies
• American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film by Ann Brigham
• American Street by Ibi Zoboi
• Amped by Daniel H. Wilson
• Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
• Angels of Interstate 29 by Donald James Parker
• Anna's Corn by Barbara Santucci
• Are We There Yet? by Nina Laden
• Are We There Yet? by Dan Santat
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Around the World by Matt Phelan
• Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
• Attention All Shipping by Charlie Connelly
• Autokind Vs. Mankind by Kenneth R. Schneider
• The Automobile and American Culture edited by David Lanier Lewis

B

• Baby Driver: A Story About Myself by Jan Kerouac
• Bad Luck Girl by Sarah Zettel
• The Balloon Boy of San Francisco by Dorothy Kupcha Leland
• Because of the Sun by Jenny Torres Sanchez
• Beneath by Roland Smith
• The Better Country by Dallas Lore Sharp
• Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle
• Big Dog...Little Dog: A Bedtime Story by P.D. Eastman
• The Big Roads by Earl Swift
• Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
• The Big Wander by Will Hobbs
• Black Hammer Volume 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire
• Black Hammer Volume 2: The Event by Jeff Lemire
• Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
• Bluffton by Matt Phelan
• Bo at Iditarod Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill
• Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
• The Boneshaker by Kate Milford
• Boundaries of Home by Doug Aberley
• The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu
• The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Broken Lands by Kate Milford
• Buffalo Grass by Frank Gruber
• Bull by David Elliott
• By Motor to the Golden Gate by Emily Post

C

• Cadillac Couches by Sophie B. Watson
• Calamity Jack by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and Nathan Hale
• California by Edan Lepucki
• Candor by Pam Bachorz
• The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase by Wendy Mass
• The Cardboard Valise by Ben Katchor
• The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole by Michelle Cuevas
• Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam
• Cars Galore by Peter Stein
• Carson Crosses Canada
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again by Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time by Frank Cottrell Boyce
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
• The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway by Karal Ann Marling
• Cotton Tenants: Three Families by James Agee
• Crossing the Tracks by Barbara Stuber
• Crunch by Leslie Connor
• Culture is Our Business by Marshall McLuhan

D

• The Damned Highway by Nick Mamatas and Brian Keene
• Dead City by James Ponti
• Dead End by Helen R. Myers
• Delphine by Richard Sala
• Demon Volume 1 by Jason Shiga
• Demon Volume 2 by Jason Shiga
• Demon Volume 3 by Jason Shiga
• Demon, Volume 4 by Jason Shiga
• Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Diners, Bowling Alleys, And Trailer Parks by Andrew Hurley
• The Discworld Graphic Novels by Terry Pratchett
• Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
• Doll Bones by Holly Black
• Don Eddy: The Art of Paradox by Donald B. Kuspit
• Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
• Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
• The Dragon That Lived Under Manhattan by E.W. Hildick
• Dragons Beware! by Jorge Aguirre
• The Dragons of Spratt Ohio by Linda Zinnen
• Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel

E

• The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars by Jean Merrill
• Emily the Strange: Dark Times by Rob Reger
• Emily the Strange: Piece of Mind by Rob Reger
• Emily the Strage: Stranger and Stranger by Rob Reger
• Emily the Strange: Lost Days by Rob Reger
• The Endangered Species Road Trip by Cameron MacDonald
• The Endless Pavement by Jacqueline Jackson
• Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

F

• Far from Fair by Elana K. Arnold
• The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Feathertop by Robert D. San Souci
• Fed, White, and Blue: Finding America with My Fork by Simon Majumdar
• Field Trip by Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Finding Fortune by Delia Ray
• The Firefly Code by Megan Frazer Blakemore
• Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle
• Five Thrillers by Robert Reed
• Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing by Erika Lopez
• The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
• For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu
• Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young
• Fred and Ted's Road Trip by Peter Eastman
• Freddy Goes to Florida by Walter R. Brooks
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
• A Friendly Town That's Almost Always by the Ocean! by Kir Fox and M. Shelley Coats

G

• The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
• Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While by Catherynne M. Valente
• Go, Dog. Go! by P. D. Eastman
• Golden Girl by Sarah Zettel
• The Graduate by Charles Webb
• Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
• The Great Desert Race by Betty Baker
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Great Good Summer by Liz Garton Scanlon
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford: A road narrative deconstruction

H

• Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar
• How to Avoid Extinction by Paul Acampora

I

• I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
• Icons of Popular Culture by Marshall Fishwick
• Immortality Inc. by Robert Sheckley
• In the Driver's Seat by Cynthia Golomb Dettelbach
• In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III
• In Memory of the Map by Christopher Norment
• The Inn Between by Marina Cohen
• Instructions by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
• Interstate 69 by Matt Dellinger
• The Isle by Jordana Frankel
• "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby
• It Might Have Been Worse by Beatrice Larned Massey

J

• Just Us Women by Jeannette Franklin Caines

K

• The Kairos Mechanism by Kate Milford
• Keeper by Kathi Appelt
• Kissing in America by Margo Rabb
• Knock About with the Fitzgerald-Trouts by Esta Spalding

L

• L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz by Katharine M. Rogers
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
  
• The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
• Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
• The Left-Handed Fate by Kate Milford
• Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
• Let's Go for a Drive by Mo Willems
• The Lincoln Highway by Michael Wallis
• Line 135 by Germano Zullo
• Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 by Marilyn Irvin Holt
• Little Robot by Ben Hatke
• A Little Twist of Texas by Linda Raven Moore
• London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
• The Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
• Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts by Esta Spalding
• Lowriders in Space by Cathy Camper
• Lowriders to the Center of the Earth by Cathy Camper

M

• The Magic Cornfield by Nancy Willard
• The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Maze in the Mind and the World: Labyrinths in Modern Literature by Donald Gutierrez
• Mazes and Labyrinths: Their History and Development by W.H. Matthews
• The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
• The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time by Steven Sherrill
• Mosquitoland by David Arnold
• A Most Unique Machine by George S. May
• Mrs. P's Journey by Sarah Hartley
• My Favorite Band Does Not Exist by Robert T. Jeschonek
• Mysterious Magical Circus Family Kids: The Chocolate Cake Turkey Lip Crumb Trail Mystery Adventure by R. Hawk Starkey

N

• The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Northward to the Moon by Polly Horvath
• Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins

O

• Off Road by Sean Gordon Murphy
• On Highway 61 by Dennis McNally
• On the Trail to Sunset by Thomas William Wilby and Agnes Anderson Wilby
• The Once Upon a Time Map Book by B.G. Hennessy and Peter Joyce
• Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene
• Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway by Phil Patton
• Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
• Otis by Loren Long
• Otis and the Scarecrow by Loren Long
• Out of Tune by Gail Nall
• Out West: A Journey through Lewis and Clark's America by Dayton Duncan
• Oz: Road to Oz by Eric Shanower
• Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum

P

• Pantomime by Laura Lam
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Pastoral Cities by James L. Machor
• Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
• Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
• Pumpkin Town! by Katie McKy

Q

• Questions Asked by Jostein Gaarder

R

• Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale, Nathan Hale and Dean Hale
• Return to Augie Hobble by Lane Smith
• The Ride by Tom Brandner
• The River by Alessandro Sanna
• The Road is Yours Reginald M. Cleveland
• The Road Movie Book edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark
• Road of Her Own: Women's Journeys in the West by Marlene Blessing
• Road Trip by Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
• Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny
• RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative by Kris Lackey
• Romance of the Road by Ronald Primeau
• Roughneck by Jeff Lemire
• Rust 01: Visitor in the Field by Royden Lepp
• Rust 02: Secrets of the Cell by Royden Lepp
• Rust 03: Death of the Rocket Boy by Royden Lepp

S

• The Scarebird by Sid Fleischman and Peter Sís
• Scarecrow Magic by Ed Masessa
• See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
• Signspotting by Doug Lansky
• Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye
• Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
• Slacker by Gordon Korman
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Slider by Pete Hautman
• The Someday Birds by Sally J. Pla
• Soupy Leaves Home by Cecil Castellucci
• Speak Easily by Clarence Budington Kelland
• Speedy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
• Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
• Sunflower House by Eve Bunting
• Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave by Jen White
• Sweet Shadows by Tera Lynn Childs
• Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs

T

• The Take-Us by John Raymond Takacs
• Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartmen
• They Came in from the Road by Marjorie Starbuck and Elizabeth Platko
• Three Years with the Rat by Jay Hosking
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Trailer Park Fae by Lilith Saintcrow
• Transcendental by James Edwin Gunn
• Traveling Light by Lynne Branard
• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
• Trucks by Byron Barton

U

• Undead by Kirsty McKay
• Under New York by Linda Oatman High
• Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
• Underground London: Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith
• The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire
• Unfed by Kirsty McKay
• The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones by Will Mabbitt

V

• The Vacation by Polly Horvath
• Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin and translated by Sheila Fischman

W

• Waiting for Augusta by Jessica Lawson
• The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
• The Ward by Jordana Frankel
• Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
• The Way to Bea by Kat Yeh
• Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
• The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
• The Willowdale Handcar by Edward Gorey
• Winnebago Graveyard #1 by Steve Niles
• Winnebago Graveyard #2 by Steve Niles
• Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
• The Witch's Glass by Holly Grant
• A Woman's World Tour in a Motor by Harriet White Fisher
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: rereading for the American road narrative
• Worldshaker by Richard Harland
• Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

X

Y

• The Yggssey by Daniel Pinkwater

Z

• Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved by Patricia Hruby Powell