Top Ten Tuesday – February 17, 2026

By Denise @ Life With No Plot on February 17, 2026 • ( 0 )

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is:

Ten (or Eight) Books For Armchair Travelers

I love the way this topic is phrased! I don’t get to travel anywhere near as much as I would like, so this is the best way to get out there and experience new places vicariously through others. I am going to base this around a topic I did a few years ago, narrowing this down specifically to books about road trips. Road trips are my favorite ways to travel, especially when you don’t know exactly where you’re going. Here they are:

Paper Towns by John Green: A whirlwind road trip at the end of the book to try and find the elusive Margo.
Going Bovine by Libba Bray: Is this a real road trip, or is it all in Cam’s head? No real way to tell, but we’re all along for the ride.
Mosquitoland by David Arnold: A road trip to find your mom and your true self. What better reason to go?
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien: We usually think of road trips as using cars, but horses and carts and things are just as good. Why just go on just a road trip when you can go on an adventure!
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson: There may have been a few airplanes involved, but it’s mostly on the road, so it counts.
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson: A road trip across the entire United States with a stranger, all while you’re trying to grieve and figure out how your life is changing.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel: What better way to spend the apocolypse than traveling down the road with your Shakespearean theatre troupe! There’s a lot more going on, but it’s still a road trip!
The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston: This book features a lot of being on the road and on the run, but ends with a sudden, frantic road trip to head back to where everything began – the truth.