Holiday season is on our minds, which means one thing: road trip time! How exciting would it be to travel around the world and stop off where you fancy? If you can't make it on a trip, these road trip books should help!

With these fantastic reads, you can travel wherever you want to. With your next favorite book, take to the road and explore cities large and small, countrysides far and wide, and real and imagined worlds. So, what are you waiting for?

I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest

A debut young adult rom-com about an African American ballerina who finds love on the road to an audition.

When Chloe Pierce's mother forbids her from applying for a spot at her dream dance conservatory, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the closest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists on hitchhiking, threatening to tell Chloe's mother if she leaves him and his stinky dog, Geezer, behind. So Chloe is chasing her ballet dreams down the east coast, with two unwanted (but kinda cute) passengers in her car, butterflies in her stomach, and a really dope playlist on repeat.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

American writer Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road is based on his and his friends' travels across the United States. It is regarded as a seminal work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture movements, with its protagonists navigating life amid jazz, poetry, and drug use.

Paper Towns by John Green

John Green's novel Paper Towns was published on October 16, 2008, by Dutton Books. The novel follows the protagonist, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, as he grows up and searches for his neighbor and childhood crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer wrote Into the Wild, a nonfiction book, in 1996. It is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article on Chris McCandless, "Death of an Innocent," which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside.

This is not an easy story to read but Jon Krakauer writes well about the heart of the wilderness, its terrible beauty and its relentless harshness.

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail is a 1998 travel book by Bill Bryson about his attempt to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail in the spring and summer of 1996.

I loved this and it made me realise how much I enjoy Bill Bryson books! It’s a great diary of life in nature and the trouble in the human mind as we try and make sense of everything.

Down Under by Bill Bryson

Down Under is the British title of Bill Bryson's best-selling travelogue book about Australia, which was published in 2000. In the United States and Canada, it was published under the title In a Sunburned Country, which is derived from the famous Australian poem "My Country."

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is a book by travel writer Bill Bryson that chronicles his 13,978-mile journey around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring of 1988. This was Bryson's first travel book.

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The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island is a humorous travel book written by American author Bill Bryson and published in 2015. Twenty years after the publication of Notes from a Small Island, Bryson returns to Great Britain to see how things have changed.

A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins

A Walk Across America, a nonfiction travel book, was first published in 1979. Peter Jenkins, a travel author, wrote his first book with support from the National Geographic Society. The book follows his journey from Alfred, New York to New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing is American author Jesmyn Ward's third novel, published by Scribner in 2017. It follows a family in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. The novel received overwhelmingly positive reviews, and The New York Times named it one of the top ten books of 2017.

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