Keep Cool in the AC This Weekend with These Great Car Themed Books and Movies

Host a Couchbound “Drive-In” Night with These Car Inspired Movies:

• Mad Max (1979) Now streaming on Netflix.

• Initial D (2005) Now streaming on Netflix.

• Turbo (2013) Now streaming on Netflix.

• Framing John Delorean (2019) Now streaming on Netflix.

• Ford V Ferrari (2020) Now streaming on Amazon Prime.

• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) Now streaming on Peacock.

• Getaway (2013) Now streaming on Hulu.

• Gran Torino (2008) Now streaming on HBO Max.

• Need for Speed (2014) Now streaming on Hulu.

• Back to the Future Trilogy Available to Rent/Buy on Major Streaming Platforms.

• The Fast and Furious Franchise Available to Rent/Buy on Major Streaming Platforms.
   

   

 

While the list below is by no means exhaustive (get it, ha!) we definitely put these on the top of our “TBR Pile (to be read) and we think you might enjoy them too.  Feel free to drop your faves in a comment!

Great Nonfiction Reads:

• How Cars Work by Tom Newton

• How to Build a Car by Adrian Newwasefey

• Speed Read Supercar by Basem 

• The Complete Book of Ford Mustang by Mike Mueller

• Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans by A.J. Baime

• Car Science: An Under the Hood and Behind the Dash Look at How Cars Work at by Richard Hammond

• The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas by Chandler O’Leary

• 100 Parks, 5,000 Ideas by Joe Yogerst

• Nat Geo’s Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways

• Nat Geo’s Drives of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Most Spectacular Trips

• Lonely Planet’s Best USA Trips

• Rand McNally’s 2021 Road Atlas for US, Canada, and Mexico

Books to Read With Kids and Little Ones:

• DK Eyewitness Books: Car

• Three Cheers for Kid McGear by Sherry Duskey Rinker

• ABC’s for Future Race Car Drivers by Fast Kids Club

• Little Blue Truck by Alice Shertle

• Nat Geo’s Ultimate USA Road Trip Atlas for Kids

• Road Trip! A Whiskers Hollow Adventure by Steve Light

• Road Trip by Gary and Jim Paulsen

Great Car Centric Entries in Fiction:

• More Better Deals by Joe Lansdale

• Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

• Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

• It Came from the Garage: An Anthology of Automotive Horror by Stephen King

• Racing the Devil by Charles Todd

• American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott

• Cotton Crossing: Roadtrip Z Book 1 by Lilith Saintclair

• Night Road by Kristen Hannah

• In An Instant by Susan Redfearn

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

• Boop and Eve’s Road Trip by Mary Helen Sheriff

Don’t fret if you can’t purchase an e-book or print copy for your personal library.  Did you know that you can also support authors by checking things out at your local libraries? That’s right! Each time you check out a book, the author and publisher are supported by your borrowing. Libraries are incredible free resources open to everyone in your local community.  Stop by your local library today to check out some great reads and see what free or low-cost activities they’re offering this summer.