6 must-read classics books like Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in…

If you liked the classics plot in Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Dogging Steinbeck: How I Went in Search of John Steinbeck's America, Found My Own America, and Exposed the Truth about 'Travels with Charley'

By: Bill Steigerwald

3.26

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Bill Steigerwald had a brilliant plan for showing how much America has changed in the last half cen… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • travel
"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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3. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • literature
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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4. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • literature
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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5. Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highwaysis an unforgettable journey along … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

6. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

By: Jonas Jonasson , Rachel Willson-Broyles

2.00

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A madcap new novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climb… read more

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8. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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9. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

10. A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more

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11. Saint Richard Parker

By: Merlin Franco

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...… read more

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  • travel
"See you later, tailgater."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Dark is beautiful, brother."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Tell me, son, what do you seek?"

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"A saint has control over his anger and itches."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

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12. The Prophet and the Idiot

By: Jonas Jonasson

3.65

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hu… read more

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13. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

By: Jonas Jonasson

3.82

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his la… read more

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"Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"There are undoubtedly advantages to being dead, said Julius."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties,"

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"Les choses sont ce qu'elles sont et elles seront ce qu'elles seront."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

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14. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • classics
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15. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more

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"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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16. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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17. Someone Else's Bucket List

By: Amy T. Matthews

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

After the untimely death of her outgoing, hugely successful influencer sister, an introverted woman… read more

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  • travel
Cover of Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder

18. Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

By: William Souder

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression. The first fu… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

By: Namrata Patel

4.02

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secr… read more

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20. Last Tang Standing

By: Lauren Ho

3.52

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the … read more

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"That's what I like about Linda: she might look like Harrods on the outside but on the inside Linda's straight-up TJ MAXX-hobo without the chic."

-Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

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21. The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)

By: Jonas Jonasson

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of… read more

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"Οι ερευνητές είχαν διαπιστώσει μόλις ότι το μέσο επίπεδο νοημοσύνης είχε καθοδική πορεία. Ο Άλαν διάβασε πως αυτοί που ξόδευαν πολύ χρόνο στη μαύρη πλακέτα τους έχαναν την ικανότητα του διαλόγου. Η π…"

-Jonas Jonasson, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)

"Η ανθρώπινη λογική λειτουργούσε ως εξής: πάρα πολλοί θεωρούσαν εαυτούς εξτρεμιστές. Οσο οι Σουηδοί Δημοκράτες ήταν ό,τι πιο εξτρεμιστικό είχε να προσφέρει η Σουηδία, θα υπήρχαν πάντα αρκετοί που δε θ…"

-Jonas Jonasson, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)

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