Route 66 Suggested Reading List

Route 66 - Oklahoma

• Oklahoma Route 66 - Jim Ross
• Get Off the Interstate and Enjoy Oklahoma's Route 66 - Bill Calkin, Tammra Radford
• Lucille: Mother of the Mother Road - Lucille Hamons
• Oklahoma Route 66 Association Trip Guide (published annually; available in hard copy or online in our Store)

Route 66 - General

• A Guidebook to Highway 66 - Jack Rittenhouse (first post-WWII guidebook)
• The Route 66 Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion - Tom Snyder
• The Illustrated Guidebook to the Mother Road - Bob Moore, Patrick Grauwels
• Route 66: The Highway and Its People - Quinta Scott, Susan Croce Kelly
• Route 66: The Mother Road - Michael Wallis
• Songdog Diary: 66 Stories from the Road - Michael Wallis, Suzanne Wallis
• Searching for 66 - Tom Teague
• Searching for 66 II - Tom Teague
• Route 66: The Empires of Amusement - Thomas Repp
• Route 66: The Romance of the West - Thomas Repp
• The Route 66 Cookbook - Marian Clark
• The Main Street of America Cookbook: A Culinary Journey Down Route 66 - Marian Clark
• Route 66 Adventure Handbook - Drew Knowles
• E Z 66 Guide for Travelers - Jerry McClanahan
• Route 66 Remembered - Michael Witzel
• Route 66 Chronicles, Volume One and Two - Gerald M. Knowles
• Riding the Travel Bureau - Oliver E. Rooker
• Blue Highways: A Journey into America - William Least Heat-Moon
• Behind the Wheel...on Route 66 - Howard Suttle

Route 66 - Other States

• Traveling the New Historic Route 66 of Illinois - John Weiss
• The Missouri US 66 Tour Book - C.H. (Skip) Curtis
• Route 66 Across New Mexico: A Wanderer's Guide - Jill Schneider
• Tales from the Coral Court - Shellee Graham

Fiction

• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• The Harvest Gypsies - John Steinbeck
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• Murder on Route 66 - Carolyn Wheat, editor

Children's Fiction

• Main Street: Lemonade Days - Susan E. Kirby
• Main Street: Home for Christmas - Susan E. Kirby
• Main Street: Goodbye, Desert Rose - Susan E. Kirby
• Main Street: Home Front Hero - Susan E. Kirby

Poetry

• The Route 66 Hip Pocket Trip - Joel Nash

Periodicals

• Route 66 Magazine
• National Historic Route 66 Federation News
• American Road

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