Set in a Small Town

Participating in Spring Books & Bites Bingo? Try these books that feature road trips!

Updated April 1, 2026
Jessamine County Public Library Books and Bites
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Beartown
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it...
Miracle creek
Kim, Angie
Paper Book
It
King, Stephen
Paper Book
27 years later, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back... Derry, Maine was just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live. It was a group of children who saw- and...
To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
Paper Book
ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'No one forgets this book' Independent 'One of the best first novels I remember ... uniquely unsentimental' Guardian 'There is humour as well as...
Betty
Mcdaniel, Tiffany
Paper Book
This is happiness
Williams, Niall
Paper Book
'A beautiful writer' HOZIERLonglisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a...

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