Set in a Small Town

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

Updated April 1, 2026
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Beartown
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
Now an HBO Original Series "You'll love this engrossing novel." --People Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of...
The care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls
Gray, Anissa
Paper Book
The Butler family has had their share of trials - as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest - but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives.Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with and her younger sisters have alternately...
Promise
Griffiths, Rachel Eliza
Paper Book
'A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew' Marlon James The people of Salt Point are afraid of the world beyond their rural town. Most of them are born, live and die never having gone more...
Open, heaven
Hewitt, Seán
Paper Book
When James meets Luke, everything changes - an exhilarating tale of hidden desire and sudden freedom in the wild countryside. THE INSTANT TOP 10 IRISH BESTSELLER DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE LONGLIST 2026 'An achingly beautiful story of first love'...
My heart is a chainsaw
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
Some girls just don't know how to die. Jade Daniels is an outcast - half-Indian, with an abusive father, an absent mother - in Proofrock, a town that wants nothing to do with her. Now, one class away from dropping out of school, she is pouring her life and soul into her last assignment...
Miracle Creek
Kim, Angie
Paper Book
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel A Time Best Mystery and Thriller Book of All Time The "gripping... page-turner" (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane...
Salem's lot
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Thousands of miles away from the small township of Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.
It
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It's a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain...
To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper
Paper Book
Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025. Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize...
Lula Dean's little library of banned books
Miller, Kirsten
Paper Book
'Clever and astute ... a cracking read' The Belfast Telegraph 'One by one, residents read the books and find their lives changed in unexpected ways' Hello Magazine * * * From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to...
Daughter of mine a novel
Miranda, Megan
Paper Book
" The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors. When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local...
Buckeye
Ryan, Patrick
Paper Book
A New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025 A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick September 2025 One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything. 'Poignant, powerful' Independent 'Omniscient, sweeping, almost...
Mother-daughter murder night : a novel
Simon, Nina
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK  Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. "I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother, and a teenage daughter." --Reese Witherspoon Think: Gilmore...
Tell me everything : a novel
Strout, Elizabeth
Paper Book
It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house...
Listen for the lie
Tintera, Amy
Paper Book
Am I a murderer? You tell me . . . Lucy Chase can't remember anything about the night her best friend was murdered. Lucky her, you're probably thinking. Who would want that to be their last memory of someone they love? But for Lucy, it's become an issue....
This is happiness
Williams, Niall
Paper Book
The November 2025 Late Show Book Club Pick! "I am such a fan of Niall Williams." -Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake A profound and enchanting novel set in the rural Irish village of Faha, from bestselling Time...
Now is not the time to panic : a novel
Wilson, Kevin
Paper Book
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge - aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner - is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who is as lonely and awkward as she is. As romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, Frankie...

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