[Froide]

This list includes some expected books but some other titles that might be off the beaten path, so to speak. More are listed in a thread I created in July 2015, in the BN NOOK Forums, titled: "Some notable books regarding road trips in the USA, for better and for worse".

Fiction - Classics, Historical Fiction, & Sci-Fi/Fantasy:

• The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Fiction - Dystopia, Horror:

• The Enemy series by Charlie Higson
• The Long Walk by Stephen King

Non-fiction - flights to freedom:

• Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling
• Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington, Nugi Garimara
• The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives by Devon W. Carbado (Editor), Donald Weise (Goodreads Author) (Editor)
• The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir

Non-fiction - treks that ended in tragedy:

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Any book about forced marches, e.g., the Bataan Death March, the Trail of Tears

Other non-fiction:

• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• The True Story of Paul Revere's Ride by Susanna Keller
• Books about hobos

Poetry about pilgrimages

• "The King's Pilgrimage" by Rudyard Kipling
• "The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot