Road Narrative Project: Road Reviews by Category

Orphans
Siblings
Scarecrows and minotaurs
marginalized
Couples or families
Privileged

Narrative analysis

• American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film by Ann Brigham
• The Automobile and American Culture edited by David Lanier Lewis
• Boundaries of Home by Doug Aberley
• Culture is Our Business by Marshall McLuhan
• Don Eddy: The Art of Paradox by Donald B. Kuspit
• Icons of Popular Culture by Marshall Fishwick
• In the Driver's Seat by Cynthia Golomb Dettelbach
• L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz by Katharine M. Rogers
• The Once Upon a Time Map Book by B.G. Hennessy and Peter Joyce
• The Road Movie Book edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark
• RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative by Kris Lackey
• Romance of the Road by Ronald Primeau

Orphans: (#FFFFF - FF0000)

orphan / utopia / cornfield

• Emily the Strange: Lost Days by Rob Reger
• The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Magic Cornfield by Nancy Willard
• Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: rereading for the American road narrative

orphan / utopia / maze

• BLAME! MASTER EDITION 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente

orphan / utopia / labyrinth

• Emily the Strange: The 13th Hour by Rob Reger and Buzz Parker

orphan / utopia / offroad

• Adele in Sand Land by Claude Pont
• Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl by Daniel Pinkwater
• Bad Luck Girl by Sarah Zettel
• The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente
• Descender, Volume 3: Singularities by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
• Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Speedy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
• Transcendental by James Edwin Gunn

orphan / utopia / blue highway

• Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
• Yellow Brick War by Danielle Paige

orphan / utopia / interstate

• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu
• The Train to Impossible Places by P.G. Bell
• The Vacation by Polly Horvath

orphan / uhoria / cornfield

• The Do-Over by Jennifer Honeybourn
• The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Kairos Mechanism by Kate Milford
• Three Years with the Rat by Jay Hosking

orphan / uhoria / maze

• Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 7 by Ryoko Kui
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Missing Years by Lexie Elliott
• The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi and Emily Balistrieri (Translator)

orphan / uhoria / labyrinth

• Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
• Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe by Jo Watson Hackl

orphan / uhoria / offroad

• All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
• The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole by Michelle Cuevas
• Emily the Strange: Dark Times by Rob Reger
• Immortality Inc. by Robert Sheckley
• Little Robot by Ben Hatke
• Mabel Jones and the Doomsday Book by Will Mabbitt and Ross Collins
• Malamander by Thomas Taylor
• An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
• The Portal by Kathryn Lasky
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

orphan / uhoria / blue highway

• Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck
• Trace by Pat Cummings

orphan / uhoria / interstate

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Waiting for Augusta by Jessica Lawson
• Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

orphan / wildlands / cornfield

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

orphan / wildlands / maze

• A Game of Fox and Squirrels by Jenn Reese
• Wild Blues by Beth Kephart

orphan / wildlands / labyrinth

• The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling

orphan / wildlands / offroad

• Amped by Daniel H. Wilson
• The Balloon Boy of San Francisco by Dorothy Kupcha Leland
• Keeper by Kathi Appelt
• Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly and Lian Cho
• Questions Asked by Jostein Gaarder
• Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale, Nathan Hale and Dean Hale
• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
• The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown

orphan / wildlands / blue highway

Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher

orphan / wildlands / interstate

• Soupy Leaves Home by Cecil Castellucci

orphan / home / cornfield

• A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano
• Descender, Volume 5: Rise of the Robots by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
• The Hedgehog of Oz by Cory Leonardo
• Outside In by Deborah Underwood and Cindy Derby
• Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
• Wee Sister Strange by Holly Grant

orphan / home / maze

• Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford: A road narrative deconstruction

orphan / home / labyrinth

• Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
• Heartwood Hotel 4: Home Again by Kallie George

orphan / home / offroad

• Heartwood Hotel 1: A True Home by Kallie George
• Instructions by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
• 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
• Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
• We Unleash the Merciless Storm by Tehlor Kay Mejia
• The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige

orphan / home / blue highway

• City of Orphans by Avi
• Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
• Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper and Kenard Pak

orphan / home / interstate

• Demon Volume 1 by Jason Shiga
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
• Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

orphan / rural / cornfield

• Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel

orphan / rural / maze

orphan / rural / labyrinth

• Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen by Anne Nesbet

orphan / rural / offroad

• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
• Finding Fortune by Delia Ray

orphan / rural / blue highway

• Because of the Sun by Jenny Torres Sanchez
• The Boneshaker by Kate Milford

orphan / rural / interstate

• The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee
• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

orphan / city / cornfield

• The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Oz: Road to Oz by Eric Shanower
• The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum

orphan / city / maze

• Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 1 by Ryoko Kui
• The Dragon That Lived Under Manhattan by E.W. Hildick
• Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier

orphan / city / labyrinth

• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

orphan / city / offroad

• Calamity Jack by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and Nathan Hale
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
• Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson and Junyi Wu (Illustrator)
• The Isle by Jordana Frankel
• My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
• Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson

orphan / city / blue highway

• The Fever King by Victoria Lee

orphan / city / interstate

siblings: (#CCFFFF - CC0000)

siblings / utopia / cornfield

• The In-Between by Rebecca Ansari

siblings / utopia / maze

• Beneath by Roland Smith
• Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas

siblings / utopia / labyrinth

• Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
• The Map of Stars by Laura Ruby

siblings / utopia / offroad

• Emily the Strange: Piece of Mind by Rob Reger
• Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
• The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum
• Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs
• Thor & Loki: Double Trouble by Mariko Tamaki and Gurihiru

siblings / utopia / blue highway

• Supernatural

siblings / utopia / interstate

• Above by Roland Smith
• Lift by Minh Lê and Dan Santat
• Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

siblings / uhoria / cornfield

• Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
• The Million by Karl Schroeder

siblings / uhoria / maze

• Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 4 by Ryoko Kui
• Descender, Volume 2: Machine Moon by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
• The Phantom Tower by Keir Graff
• Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White

siblings / uhoria / labyrinth

• Asking for Trouble by Sarah Prineas

siblings / uhoria / offroad

• Mabel Jones and the Forbidden City by Will Mabbitt and Ross Collins
• Turtle Under Ice by Juleah del Rosario

siblings / uhoria / blue highway

• The Ghost in Apartment 2R by Denis Markell
• The Ghost Road by Charis Cotter
• The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alka
• Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake

siblings / uhoria / interstate

• Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf
• Into the Windwracked Wilds by A. Deborah Baker

siblings / wildlands / cornfield

• Hansel and Gretel by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti

siblings / wildlands / maze

• Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater and Morgan Beem (illustrator)
• Vampiric Vacation by Kiersten White

siblings / wildlands / labyrinth

• Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum

siblings / wildlands / offroad

• The Big Wander by Will Hobbs

siblings / wildlands / blue highway

• No Place Like Here by Christina June

siblings / wildlands / interstate

• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• The Someday Birds by Sally J. Pla
• The Willowdale Handcar by Edward Gorey

siblings / home / cornfield

• The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

siblings / home / maze

• Sweet Legacy by Tera Lynn Childs

siblings / home / labyrinth

• Blastaway by Melissa Landers

siblings / home / offroad

• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Joy McCullough
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Heartwood Hotel 2: The Greatest Gift by Kallie George
• The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

siblings / home / blue highway

• The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
• Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley

siblings / home / interstate

• Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave by Jen White

siblings / rural / cornfield

• Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

siblings / rural / maze

siblings / rural / labyrinth

siblings / rural / offroad

• Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn
• The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López (Illustrator)

siblings / rural / blue highway

• Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke
• The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall
• The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall
• Roughneck by Jeff Lemire
• Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea by Lynne Rae Perkins

siblings / rural / interstate

• Bluffton by Matt Phelan
• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (1998)

siblings / city / cornfield

• All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
• Victory City by Salman Rushdie

siblings / city / maze

• Emily the Strage: Stranger and Stranger by Rob Reger

siblings / city / labyrinth

• The Silence of Bones by June Hur

siblings / city / offroad

• The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
• Sweet Shadows by Tera Lynn Childs
• The Ward by Jordana Frankel

siblings / city / blue highway

siblings / city / interstate

• Samantha Spinner and the Super Secret Plans by Russell Ginns

scarecrows or minotaurs: (#99FFFF - 990000)

scarecrow / utopia / cornfield

• Gideon Falls, Volume 3: Stations of the Cross by Jeff Lemire
• Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Volume 4 by Sumito Oowara and Kumar Sivasubramanian (Translator)

scarecrow / utopia / maze

• Nightmare of the Iguana by Ursula Vernon
• River of Dreams by Jan Nash
• The Similars by Rebecca Hanover

scarecrow / utopia / labyrinth

• August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White
• In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

scarecrow / utopia / offroad

• Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
• Every Bird a Prince by Jenn Reese
• Primordial by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino (Artist) and Dave Stewart (Artist)
• Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith

scarecrow / utopia / blue highway

• Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

scarecrow / utopia / interstate

scarecrow / uhoria / cornfield

• Gideon Falls, Volume 1: The Black Barn by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino
• Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
• Kowloon Generic Romance, Volume 3 by Jun Mayuzuki and Amanda Haley (Translator)
• Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn
• The Tea Dragon Festival by Kay O'Neill

scarecrow / uhoria / maze

• Amulet 8: Supernova by Kazu Kibuishi
• Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
• The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
• Joker: Killer Smile by Jeff Lemire

scarecrow / uhoria / labyrinth

• Kowloon Generic Romance, Volume 2 by Jun Mayuzuki and Amanda Haley (Translation)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

scarecrow / uhoria / offroad

• Captive Hearts of Oz Volume 2 by Ryo Maruya
• Descender, Volume 1: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen

scarecrow / uhoria / blue highway

• The End of Oz by Danielle Paige
• The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O'Neill

scarecrow / uhoria / interstate

• The Great Brain Robbery by P.G. Bell

scarecrow / wildlands / cornfield

• Bob by Wendy Mass
• Camp Creepy by Kiersten White

scarecrow / wildlands / maze

• Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
• Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher
• Rogue Princess by B.R. Myers
• Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
• You Can't Hide by Dan Poblocki

scarecrow / wildlands / labyrinth

• Tin by Candace Robinson and Amber R. Duell

scarecrow / wildlands / offroad

• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

scarecrow / wildlands / blue highway

• The Seeds by Ann Nocenti and David Aja (Artist)

scarecrow / wildlands / interstate

scarecrow / home / cornfield

• Feathertop by Robert D. San Souci
• The Great Unknowable End by Kathryn Ormsbee
• A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
• Otis by Loren Long
• Otis and the Scarecrow by Loren Long
• The Scarebird by Sid Fleischman and Peter Sís
• Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
• Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
• Unspoken Magic by Emily Lloyd-Jones

scarecrow / home / maze

• The Gathering by Dan Poblocki
• Trouble in the Stars by Sarah Prineas
• Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse

scarecrow / home / labyrinth

• Bull by David Elliott
• Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 6 by Ryoko Kui
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

scarecrow / home / offroad

• The Bone Garden by Heather Kassner
• The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
• Descender, Volume 4: Orbital Mechanics by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
• Dragonfell by Sarah Prineas
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

scarecrow / home / blue highway

• American Street by Ibi Zoboi
• The Invisible Boy by Alyssa Hollingsworth
• The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover

scarecrow / home / interstate

• The Enchanted Bridge by Zetta Elliott and Cherise Harris (Illustrations)
• Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
• Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen

scarecrow / rural / cornfield

• Black Hammer Volume 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire
• Black Hammer Volume 2: The Event by Jeff Lemire
• Scarecrow Magic by Ed Masessa

scarecrow / rural / maze

• Mazes and Labyrinths: Their History and Development by W.H. Matthews

scarecrow / rural / labyrinth

• Foe by Iain Reid

scarecrow / rural / offroad

• Quentin Corn by Mary Stolz
• A Storm of Wishes by Jacqueline West

scarecrow / rural / blue highway

• The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill

scarecrow / rural / interstate

• The Family Fortuna by Lindsay Eagar

scarecrow / city / cornfield

• Captive Hearts of Oz Volume 1 by Ryo Maruya and Mamenosuke Fujimaru
• The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum

scarecrow / city / maze

• The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
• The Collectors by Jacqueline West
• Dead City by James Ponti

scarecrow / city / labyrinth

• Mazebook by Jeff Lemire
• The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad

scarecrow / city / offroad

• The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee
• The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton
• We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen

scarecrow / city / blue highway

• The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars by Jean Merrill

scarecrow / city / interstate

• The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
• Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
• Spell & Spindle by Michelle Schusterman

Marginalized (#66FFFF - 660000)

marginalized / utopia / cornfield

• Lowriders to the Center of the Earth by Cathy Camper

marginalized / utopia / maze

• Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand
• Misfit City Volume 2 by Kirsten Smith

marginalized / utopia / labyrinth

• The Clockwork Ghost by Laura Ruby
• The Maze in the Mind and the World: Labyrinths in Modern Literature by Donald Gutierrez

marginalized / utopia / offroad

• The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase by Wendy Mass
• The Extremely High Tide! by Kir Fox and and M. Shelley Coats
• Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
• Lowriders in Space by Cathy Camper
• The Yggssey by Daniel Pinkwater

marginalized / utopia / blue highway

• The Dragon Thief by Zetta Elliott
• This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews
• When Fairies Go Bad by Ursula Vernon

marginalized / utopia / interstate

• Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker

marginalized / uhoria / cornfield

• The Deep by Rivers Solomon
• Every Missing Piece by Melanie Conklin
• Misfit City Volume 1 by Kirsten Smith
• When the Sky Fell on Splendor by Emily Henry

marginalized / uhoria / maze

• Archimancy by J.A. White
• House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
• Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
• The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

marginalized / uhoria / labyrinth

• Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford

marginalized / uhoria / offroad

• The Boney Hand by Karen Kane
• The Boy from Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis
• Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton and Khadijah Khatib (Illustrator)
• Notorious by Gordon Korman
• Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani
• The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire
• The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones by Will Mabbitt
• Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega

marginalized / uhoria / blue highway

• Attack of the Ninja Frogs by Ursula Vernon
• Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon
• Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
• 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma
• Very Rich by Polly Horvath

marginalized / uhoria / interstate

• Depth by Lev A.C. Rosen
• Yokohama Station SF by Yuba Isukari

marginalized / wildlands / cornfield

marginalized / wildlands / maze

• The Amelia Six by Kristin L. Gray
• Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
• Speculative Los Angeles edited by Denise Hamilton

marginalized / wildlands / labyrinth

• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

marginalized / wildlands / offroad

• Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
• The Discworld Graphic Novels by Terry Pratchett
• Freddy Goes to Florida by Walter R. Brooks
• Lions and Liars by Kate Beasley and Dan Santat
• Over the Moon by Natalie Lloyd
• The River at Night by Erica Ferencik
• Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

marginalized / wildlands / blue highway

• The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
• Internment by Samira Ahmed
• Lair of the Bat Monster by Ursula Vernon
• Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares by Tehlor Kay Mejia
• Revenge of the Horned Bunnies by Ursula Vernon
• The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden by Karina Yan Glaser

marginalized / wildlands / interstate

• In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III
• Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid

marginalized / home / cornfield

• Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
• Sunflower House by Eve Bunting

marginalized / home / maze

• Shadowghast by Thomas Taylor
• The Thief Knot by Kate Milford and Jaime Zollars

marginalized / home / labyrinth

• As Far as You'll Take Me by Phil Stamper
• No Such Thing as Ghosts by Ursula Vernon
• The View from the Very Best House in Town by Meera Trehan

marginalized / home / offroad

• Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
• Cotton Tenants: Three Families by James Agee
• Heartwood Hotel 3: Better Together by Kallie George
• Julia's House for Lost Creatures by Ben Hatke
• Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins
• Royal Blood by Aimee Carter
• Trailer Park Fae by Lilith Saintcrow
• Tune It Out by Jamie Sumner

marginalized / home / blue highway

• The Ballad of Ami Miles by Kristy Dallas Alley
• The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
• Best Wishes by Sarah Mlynowski
• Kazu Jones and the Denver Dognappers by Shauna Holyoak
• No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen
• I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
• Summerlost by Ally Condie

marginalized / home / interstate

• Carson Crosses Canada
• Mosquitoland by David Arnold
• Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh

marginalized / rural / cornfield

marginalized / rural / maze

• 24 Hours in Nowhere by Dusti Bowling

marginalized / rural / labyrinth

• Phantoms by J.A. White
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito

marginalized / rural / offroad

• The Better Country by Dallas Lore Sharp
• Breakout by Kate Messner
• Fearless Mary by Tami Charles and Claire Almon
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender
• Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 by Marilyn Irvin Holt
• My Favorite Band Does Not Exist by Robert T. Jeschonek
• Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian
• Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
• Undead by Kirsty McKay
• Unfed by Kirsty McKay
• Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey

marginalized / rural / blue highway

• The Ash Family by Molly Dektar
• Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
• Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
• Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez
• Diners, Bowling Alleys, And Trailer Parks by Andrew Hurley
• The Doughnut Fix by Jessie Janowitz
• Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing by Erika Lopez
• Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
• I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
• The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
• Lowriders Blast from the Past by Cathy Camper and Raul III
• One Night in Georgia by Celeste O. Norfleet
• Road of Her Own: Women's Journeys in the West by Marlene Blessing
• The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker

marginalized / rural / interstate

• Everything I Know About You by Barbara Dee
• Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Choir by Sharon Kahn
• See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
• Traveling Light by Lynne Branard

marginalized / city / cornfield

marginalized / city / maze

• A History of Glitter and Blood by Hannah Moskowitz
• Curse of the Were-wiener by Ursula Vernon

marginalized / city / labyrinth

• Black Hammer, Volume 4: Age of Doom Part Two by Jeff Lemire
• The Case of the Toxic Mutants by Ursula Vernon

marginalized / city / offroad

• Around the World by Matt Phelan
• The Broken Lands by Kate Milford
• Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
• Mrs. P's Journey by Sarah Hartley
• Pantomime by Laura Lam

marginalized / city / blue highway

• Doll Bones by Holly Black
• Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
• Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger and Emily Woo Zeller
• Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
• On Highway 61 by Dennis McNally
• Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

marginalized / city / interstate

• Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle
• Darling by K. Ancrum
• Everywhere You Want to Be by Christina June
• Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle
• For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu
• A Little Twist of Texas by Linda Raven Moore
• Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
• Silver Alert by Lee Smith and Caitlin Davies (Narrator)
• The Witch's Apprentice by Zetta Elliott

Couples or families: (#33FFFF - 660000)

couples / utopia / cornfield

• Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
• Dark Waters by Katherine Arden
• The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
• The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein
• Wayward Witch by Zoraida Córdova

couples / utopia / maze

• Demon Volume 3 by Jason Shiga
• Demon, Volume 4 by Jason Shiga
• Hotel Dare by Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre

couples / utopia / labyrinth

• Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

couples / utopia / offroad

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again by Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott
• A Friendly Town That's Almost Always by the Ocean! by Kir Fox and M. Shelley Coats
• Julia's House Moves On by Ben Hatke
• Logan's Run
• Let's Go for a Drive by Mo Willems
• Menacing Manor by Kiersten White
• Oh My Gods! by Stephanie Cooke, Insha Fitzpatrick, and Juliana Moon (Illustrations)

couples / utopia / blue highway

• The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
• The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum

couples / utopia / interstate

• The Endless Pavement by Jacqueline Jackson
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Inn Between by Marina Cohen
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes

couples / uhoria / cornfield

• Black Hammer, Volume 3: Age of Doom Part One by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston
• Bluecrowne by Kate Milford
• 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
• Family Tree, Volume 1: Sapling by Jeff Lemire and Phil Hester
• The House of Brides by Jane Cockram
• The Last Treasure by Janet S. Anderson
• Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks
• Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie
• Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon

couples / uhoria / maze

• Delicious in Dungeon Volume 2 by Ryoko Kui
• Kowloon Generic Romance, Volume 1 by Jun Mayuzuki and Amanda Haley (Translator)
• The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
• The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall

couples / uhoria / labyrinth

• Are We There Yet? by Dan Santat
• Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
• Black Hammer, Volume 5: Reborn, Part One by Jeff Lemire, Caitlin Yarsky (Illustrator) et. al
• Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon
• One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
• One Way or Another by Kara McDowell
• Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
• War Stories by Gordon Korman
• The Winterhouse Mysteries by Ben Guterson and Chloe Bristol

couples / uhoria / offroad

• The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time by Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Don't Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno
• Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar
• Jukebox by Nidhi Chanani
• Just South of Home by Karen Strong
• Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

couples / uhoria / blue highway

• Clean Getaway by Nic Stone and Dawud Anyabwile
• Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega
• Gideon Falls, Volume 2: Original Sins by Jeff Lemire
• Paradox Bound by Peter Clines
• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
• A Sprinkle of Spirits by Anna Meriano
• Tumble by Celia C. Pérez
• Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink

couples / uhoria / interstate

• Clues to the Universe by Christina Li
• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

couples / wildlands / cornfield

• The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon
• The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

couples / wildlands / maze

• Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney and Stephanie Racine (Narrator)

couples / wildlands / labyrinth

couples / wildlands / offroad

• The Bigfoot Files by Lindsay Eagar
• Buffalo Grass by Frank Gruber
• California by Edan Lepucki
• Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
• The Little Guys by Vera Brosgol
• The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time by Steven Sherrill
• Mysterious Magical Circus Family Kids: The Chocolate Cake Turkey Lip Crumb Trail Mystery Adventure by R. Hawk Starkey
• Off the Map by Trish Doller
• On the Trail to Sunset by Thomas William Wilby and Agnes Anderson Wilby
• Ozma by Candace Robinson and Amber R. Duell
• Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly
• The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

couples / wildlands / blue highway

• Counting to Perfect by Suzanne LaFleur
• The Great Desert Race by Betty Baker
• Little Red Rodent Hood by Ursula Vernon
• Return to Augie Hobble by Lane Smith
• Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
• They Came in from the Road by Marjorie Starbuck and Elizabeth Platko

couples / wildlands / interstate

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• How to Avoid Extinction by Paul Acampora
• Out of Tune by Gail Nall

couples / home / cornfield

• Anna's Corn by Barbara Santucci
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
• Mighty Jack and the Goblin King by Ben Hatke
• A Mixture of Mischief by Anna Meriano
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

couples / home / maze

• The Left-Handed Fate by Kate Milford
• The Secrets of Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
• The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
• The Way to Bea by Kat Yeh

couples / home / labyrinth

• Are We There Yet? by Nina Laden
• Samantha Spinner and the Boy in the Ball by Russell Ginns

couples / home / offroad

• Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam
• Charlie & Frog by Karen Kane
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
• The Forest of Stars by Heather Kassner
• Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya
• Past Perfect Life by Elizabeth Eulberg
• The Penderwicks in Spring (audio) by Jeanne Birdsall
• Rust: Soul in the Machine by Royden Lepp

couples / home / blue highway

• Baby Driver: A Story About Myself by Jan Kerouac
• Big Dog...Little Dog: A Bedtime Story by P.D. Eastman
• Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
• The Dollar Kids by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
• The House That Lou Built by Mae Respicio
• Just Us Women by Jeannette Franklin Caines
• Knock About with the Fitzgerald-Trouts by Esta Spalding
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts by Esta Spalding
• My Fate According to the Butterfly by Gail D. Villanueva
• Nevers by Sara Cassidy
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi
• Turtle in Paradise: The Graphic Novel by Jennifer L. Holm and Savanna Ganucheau
• Where the Heart Is by Jo Knowles

couples / home / interstate

• Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink
• Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 8 by Ryoko Kui
• Delivery to the Lost City by P.G. Bell
• Demon Volume 2 by Jason Shiga
• Far from Fair by Elana K. Arnold
• The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
• Line 135 by Germano Zullo
• Northward to the Moon by Polly Horvath
• Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

couples / rural / cornfield

• Crow by Candace Robinson and Amber R Duell
• Dead End by Helen R. Myers
• The Dragons of Spratt Ohio by Linda Zinnen
• Pumpkin Town! by Katie McKy

couples / rural / maze

• The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert

couples / rural / labyrinth

• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

couples / rural / offroad

• A Buss from Lafayette by Dorothea Jensen
• The Great Good Summer by Liz Garton Scanlon
• Hundreds and Hundreds of Pancakes by Audrey Chalmers
• A Woman's World Tour in a Motor by Harriet White Fisher
• Winnebago Graveyard #2 by Steve Niles

couples / rural / blue highway

• Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
• The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway by Karal Ann Marling
• Field Trip by Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
• The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
• Fred and Ted's Road Trip by Peter Eastman
• Light Years From Home by Mike Chen
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
• Road Trip by Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
• Roll with It by Jamie Sumner
• A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
• Winnebago Graveyard #1 by Steve Niles

couples / rural / interstate

• Crunch by Leslie Connor
• Slacker by Gordon Korman

couples / city / cornfield

• Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova
• Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 3 by Ryoko Kui
• Golden Girl by Sarah Zettel
• Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao
• A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

couples / city / maze

• All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
• We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

couples / city / labyrinth

• Gideon Falls, Volume 6: The End by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino
• Julieta and the Diamond Enigma by Luisana Duarte Armendáriz

couples / city / offroad

• Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
• Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks
• The Divided Earth by Faith Erin Hicks
• The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater
• Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson

couples / city / blue highway

• Across the Continent by The Lincoln Highway by Effie Price Gladding
• By Motor to the Golden Gate by Emily Post
• The Doughnut King by Jessie Janowitz
• It Might Have Been Worse by Beatrice Larned Massey
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
• The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

couples / city / interstate

• Cadillac Couches by Sophie B. Watson
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Hearts by Hilma Wolitzer
• I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest
• Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
• Kissing in America by Margo Rabb
• The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
• Samantha Spinner and the Perplexing Pants by Russell Ginns
• Samantha Spinner and the Spectacular Specs by Russell Ginns
• Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin and translated by Sheila Fischman

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privileged / utopia / cornfield

• Candor by Pam Bachorz

privileged / utopia / maze

• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

privileged / utopia / labyrinth

• It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

privileged / utopia / offroad

• Boat of Dreams by Rogério Coelho
• The Cardboard Valise by Ben Katchor
• Five Thrillers by Robert Reed
• Sliders
• Worldshaker by Richard Harland

privileged / utopia / blue highway

• Delphine by Richard Sala
• The Ride by Tom Brandner

privileged / utopia / interstate

• The Damned Highway by Nick Mamatas and Brian Keene
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Sky Island by L. Frank Baum

privileged / uhoria / cornfield

• Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
• Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia
• The Raconteur's Commonplace Book by Kate Milford
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• The Witch's Glass by Holly Grant

privileged / uhoria / maze

• The Beauty Trials by Dhonielle Clayton
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher
• A Song of Wraiths & Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown

privileged / uhoria / labyrinth

• Dehaunting by J.A. White
• The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf and Clare Higgins (Narrator)
• There's a Ghost in This House by Oliver Jeffers
• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

privileged / uhoria / offroad

• Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
• Paradox in Oz by Edward Einhorn and Eric Shanower
• Seven Days

privileged / uhoria / blue highway

• Back to the Future
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny

privileged / uhoria / interstate

• The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
• A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong

privileged / wildlands / cornfield

privileged / wildlands / maze

• The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas

privileged / wildlands / labyrinth

• Gargantis by Thomas Taylor

privileged / wildlands / offroad

• Attention All Shipping by Charlie Connelly
• Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
• In Memory of the Map by Christopher Norment
• Off Road by Sean Gordon Murphy
• The River by Alessandro Sanna

privileged / wildlands / blue highway

• Out West: A Journey through Lewis and Clark's America by Dayton Duncan

privileged / wildlands / interstate

• The Endangered Species Road Trip by Cameron MacDonald
• The Take-Us by John Raymond Takacs

privileged / home / cornfield

• "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby
• What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

privileged / home / maze

• Gideon Falls, Volume 5: Wicked Worlds by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino (Illustrator)
• Kerry and the Knight of the Forest by Andi Watson
• Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

privileged / home / labyrinth

• Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl
• Oh My Gods! The Forgotten Maze by Stephanie Cooke, Insha Fitzpatrick, and Juliana Moon (Illustrations)

privileged / home / offroad

• Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman

privileged / home / blue highway

• Crossing the Tracks by Barbara Stuber

privileged / home / interstate

• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

privileged / rural / cornfield

privileged / rural / maze

• The Haunting of Rookward House by Darcy Coates

privileged / rural / labyrinth

• Gideon Falls, Volume 4: The Pentoculus by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino (Illustrator)

privileged / rural / offroad

• The Firefly Code by Megan Frazer Blakemore
• The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
• Pastoral Cities by James L. Machor
• Unplugged by Gordon Korman
• Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

privileged / rural / blue highway

• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
• Go, Dog. Go! by P. D. Eastman
• The Lincoln Highway by Michael Wallis
• No Judgments by Meg Cabot
• Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway by Phil Patton
• A Problematic Paradox by Eliot Sappingfield
• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

privileged / rural / interstate

• Angels of Interstate 29 by Donald James Parker
• Fed, White, and Blue: Finding America with My Fork by Simon Majumdar
• Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene
• Signspotting by Doug Lansky
• Slider by Pete Hautman

privileged / city / cornfield

• The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum

privileged / city / maze

• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
• Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye
• Theseus

privileged / city / labyrinth

privileged / city / offroad

• American Road by Pete Davies
• Autokind Vs. Mankind by Kenneth R. Schneider
• Futurama
• A Most Unique Machine by George S. May
• Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby

privileged / city / blue highway

• Along a Long Road by Frank Viva
• The American Highway by William Kaszynsk
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
• Cars Galore by Peter Stein
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
• The Road is Yours Reginald M. Cleveland
• The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright

privileged / city / interstate

• The Big Roads by Earl Swift
• Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe
• The Graduate by Charles Webb
• Interstate 69 by Matt Dellinger
• Made You Look by Diane Roberts
• Speak Easily by Clarence Budington Kelland
• Trucks by Byron Barton
• Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell