Jack Kerouac, On the Road
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Denis Johnson, Train Dreams
Joan Didion, The White Album
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur
John McPhee, Coming into the Country
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Larry Brown, Big Bad Love
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon a River
Richard Wright, Black Boy
Carl Sandburg, Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live
Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
BONUS: Dashboard Books
Going cross country, the car is your home and the dashboard is your coffee table.