Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Genre: Biography

Description: Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.

Wildfire by Hannah Grace

Genre: Romance

Description: After a passionate one-night stand, Russ and Aurora are stunned when they bump into each other on the first day of the summer camp where they are both counselors and must learn to peacefully coexist while trying to deny the attraction that lingers between them.

The Trickster’s Lullaby by Barbara Fraser Fradkin

Genre: Crime

Description: When two teens go missing during a camping trip in the Laurentian Mountains, the police, Amanda, and Corporal Chris Tymko discover a web of deception and secrecy.

On Trails by Robert Moor

Genre: Nonfiction

Description: A groundbreaking exploration of the role of trails in shaping culture, order, and history draws on the author’s international travels and findings in myriad disciplines while exploring examples ranging from tiny ant trails and continental hiking paths to interstate highways and the Internet.

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Genre: Nonfiction

Description: In this engaging and highly unusual travelogue, journalist Sarah Vowell explores the history of American presidential assassinations. From the Florida Keys all the way to Alaska, Vowell visits assassination sites, museums, prisons, monuments, and even a religious commune. Along the way, she shares strange but true historical facts — for instance, did you know that Robert Todd Lincoln, “a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath,” was present at several presidential assassinations? — and offers keen observations about history, politics, and the connection of the past to the present.

Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Genre: Fiction

Description: A story of how the past affects the present, and of deeply entrenched racism, Sing Unburied Sing describes the life of a biracial boy, his addicted, grieving black mother, and his incarcerated white father. A road trip to Dad’s prison kick-starts the novel, which offers deeply affecting characters, a strong sense of place (rural Mississippi), and a touch of magical realism in appearances by the dead.

Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller

Genre: Young Adult Fiction

Description: Camille, seventeen, gives up her spot at a prestigious theater camp to drive from Texas to New Mexico to get an abortion, accompanied by her friends Annabelle and Bea.

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden

Genre: Graphic Novel

Description: A chance encounter sends runaway Bea on a journey through West Texas with Lou, who Bea must trust as she is driven to confront buried truths about loss and heartbreak.