Road novels is a literary genre that would appeal to anyone looking for adventure, looking for changes, redemption in their life, maybe a way to escape from the treadmill of life, search for new direction in life or just the trip that was put aside because of different reasons. It can also appeal to someone who is looking for something that would enlighten their lives. For young adults, a road trip probably would represent a new way to learn, new adventures, see the world under different perspective or to gain life experience and help to take decisions before committed into bigger responsibilities as studies or other life commitments.

Whichever is your reason and if you are unsure which path to follow join to this road trip where you can choose the following road novels literature pathways:

• Psychological fiction
• Place and Identity
• Humorous
• Domestic fiction and
• Young adult fiction.

I hope you will find your selection useful and enjoyable!!

Humorous Fiction_The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe

Maxwell Sim’s world is crumbling; he is on bad terms with his father, recently divorced and is in a broken relationship with his only daughter. Even when he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can talk about his problems. Then a business proposition comes his way and he has to drive from London to a remote retail outlet on the Shetland Isles.

Setting out with an open mind, good intentions and a friendly voice on his GPS navigator for company, Maxwell finds that this journey soon takes a more serious turn, taking him into some of the deepest and darkest corners of his own past. This sparkling, disillusionment and men self-discovery road novel is an examination of what is like to be alone in the early 21^st century and about the peculiar shapes into which technology can bend our experience of being solitary. This is a hugely enjoyable book where the author reinvents the picaresque novel for our time.

Coe, Jonathan. The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim, London : Viking, 2010.

Interview with Jonathan Coe

Are We There Yet?: Rach and Jules Take to the Open Road

This is a warm, engaging, and funny road trip novel of two 30’s unmarried women, Rachael and Julie. In the pursuit of happiness, in a world dominated by couples, these two friends decided to take two glorious weeks and forget about work, run away from the empty routine of their lives and at the style of Thelma and Louise without the assault and descent into a criminal vortex, of course , embark on a road trip of their lives. Along the way they will found laughter, scenery and maybe a little love. If you are a single, know someone who's single or might indeed be single sometime in the future, this story will have you laughing all the way to the health spa or the nearest bar.


Weiss, Rachel and Adams, Julie. Are we there yet? : Rach and Jules take to the open, Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen and Unwin, 2004.