11 Books About Road Trips to Fuel Your Wanderlust

"Sing, Unburied, Sing" ($8, originally $17)

"Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward is part road novel, part ghost story. It tells the story of Jojo, a young Black boy living with his little sister and grandparents in a rural town. He is taken on a road trip by his unreliable mom to pick up his father from prison. A master of the Southern Literature genre, Ward's compassionate, stirring books about Black southerners living in the Gulf Coast have cemented her as one of the best writers of the genre — and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" is Ward deploying her gift at the highest frequency.