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Journey of Discovery/Search for Home
aka Road Trip Stories, although not all of them involve literal road trips
Related Genres
Coming of Age
Authors & Titles
- Anderson, Robert Mailer: Boonville

- Appollo, Annette: The Last One Home

- Banks, Russell: Rule of the Bone

- Bauer, Patricia: Shelterbelt
- Bond, Frances Anne: Old Acquaintances

- Brett, Lily: Ruth Rothwax series
- Too Many Men

- You Gotta Have Balls

- Brien, Nell: A Veiled Journey

- Brookner, Anita: The Bay of Angels

- Christopher, Nicholas: A Trip to the Stars

- Collignon, Rick: Perdido

- Colwin, Laurie: Goodbye Without Leaving

- Coupland, Douglas: Miss Wyoming

- Davis, Amanda: Wonder When You'll Miss Me

- Day, Angie: The Way to Somewhere

- De Witt, Abigail: Lili

- DeWitt, Helen: The Last Samurai

- Donnelly, Gabrielle: The Girl in the Photograph

- Doster, Stephen: Lord Baltimore

- Drabble, Margaret: The Gates of Ivory

- Dundon, Susan: To My Ex-Husband

- Durham, David Anthony: Gabriel's Story

- Echlin, Kim: Elephant Winter

- Egan, Jennifer: The Invisible Circus

- Eisenberg, Nora: Just the Way You Want Me

- Evans, Nicholas: The Smoke Jumper

- Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated

- Frank, Dorothea Benton: Sullivan's Island

(NOTE: This title is part of Frank's Lowcountry series, listed under Community.)
- Garnett, Gale Zoë: Visible Amazement

- Garrett, Greg: Free Bird

- Gaston, Bill: Sointula

- Gearino, G.D.: Counting Coup

- Giles, Molly: Iron Shoes

- Girardi, Robert: The Pirate's Daughter

- Godwin, Gail: The Odd Woman

- Gordon, Jaimy: She Drove Without Stopping

- Gralla, Cynthia: The Floating World

- Grande, Reyna: Across a Hundred Mountains

- Gunesekera, Romesh: Heaven's Edge

- Hall, Barbara: A Better Place

- Harris, Joanne: Blackberry Wine

- Harris, Marilyn: Lost and Found

- Harrison, Kathryn: The Binding Chair

- Haskell, John: American Purgatorio

- Hazzard, Shirley: The Bay of Noon

- Hegi, Ursula: Salt Dancers

- Helnwein, Mercedes: The Potential Hazards of Hester Day

- Heywood, Joseph: The Snowfly

- Hillsbery, Kief: War Boy

- House, Silas: Clay's Quilt

- Howie, Betsy: Snow

- Irving, John: Until I Find You

- Isaacs, Susan: Any Place I Hang My Hat

- Jackson, Joe: How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went On to Better Things

- Johnson, Mat: Drop

- Jungk, Peter Stephan: Tigor

- Just, Ward: The Weather in Berlin

- Kerouac, Jack: On the Road

- King, Roger: A Girl From Zanzibar

- Kingsolver, Barbara: The Bean Trees

- Kline, Christina Baker: The Way Life Should Be

- Kokoris, Jim: Sister North

- Koster, R.M.: Glass Mountain

- Kowalski, William: Somewhere South of Here

- Kunzru, Hari: The Impressionist

- Landers, Scott: Coswell's Guide to Tambralinga

- Landis, Jill Marie: Lover's Lane

(This title is part of the Twilight Cove series, listed under Romantic Suspense)
- Lichtenstein, Alice: The Genius of the World

- Listi, Brad: Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

- Litt, Toby: Beatniks

- Livesey, Margot: The Missing World

- Long, Goldberry: Juniper Tree Burning

- Louie, Andrea: Moon Cakes

- Malone, Michael: Handling Sin

- Manfredi, Renee: Above the Thunder

- Mapson, Jo-Ann: Blue Rodeo

- McCauley, Stephen: True Enough

- McCown, Clint: War Memorials

- McCrumb, Sharyn: St. Dale

- McFadden, Bernice: The Warmest December

- Meadows, Rae: Calling Out

- Meehan, Michael: The Salt of Broken Tears

- Merullo, Roland: Breakfast with Buddha

- Miller, Andrew: Oxygen

- Monroe, Mary Alice: The Four Seasons

- Montague, Dan: Second Chance

- Morris, Joe Edd: Land Where My Fathers Died

- Morrow, Bradford: Ariel's Crossing

- Mosley, Nicholas: The Hesperides Tree

- Murakami, Haruki: Dance Dance Dance

- Murakami, Haruki: Kafka on the Shore

- Muske-Dukes, Carold: Life After Death

- Naipaul, V.S.: The Enigma of Arrival

- Neff, Heather: Wisdom

- Nightingale, Steven: The Lost Coast

- Ondaatje, Michael: Anil's Ghost

- Paddock, Jennifer: Point Clear

- Parks, Tim: Rapids

- Perez, Loida Maritza: Geographies of Home

- Piazza, Tom: My Cold War

- Radish, Kris: Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

- Radish, Kris: Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn

- Radish, Kris: Sunday List of Dreams

- Reiner, Carl: NNNNN: A Novel

- Reynolds, April: Knee-Deep in Wonder

- Riley, Jess: Driving Sideways

- Rosenberg, Robert: This is Not Civilization

- Russell, Mary Doria: Emilio Sandoz series (aka Rakhat series)
- The Sparrow

- Children of God

- Rutland, Eva: No Crystal Stair

- Salzman, Mark: The Laughing Sutra

- Schmitt, Richard: The Aerialist

- Shakespeare, Nicholas: Snowleg

- Shukman, Henry: The Lost City

- Sides, Charles: Motorcycle Enlightenment

- Smith, D.L.: The Miracles of Santo Fico

- Sontag, Susan: In America

- Stoberock, Johanna: City of Ghosts

- Styron, Alexandra: All the Finest Girls

- Tilghman, Christopher: Roads of the Heart

- Vida, Vendela: Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

- Villasenor, Daniel: The Lake

- Ward, Annie: The Making of June

- Weidner, R.F.: The Journey of Benjamin Hopper

- Whitaker, Phil: Triangulation

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