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* '''Derelict Days... Sixty years on the Roadside Path to Enlightenment''' by [[Irv Thomas]]. (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004). Personal tales from across a 60-year span of American (and some European) hitch-hiking, in a 226-page text. Mostly written at the time of each adventure, these highlight the consciousness-raising aspect of the experience. Included is a newspaper account of the earliest American hitch-hiker on record (1916). In English.
* '''The Hitchhiking Grandmother''' by Grace Small, as told to Ruth Barton Davis (Forest Grove, OR: Pilgrim Way Press, 1990). Quite remarkable life story of a 46-year old woman who took up hitch-hiking in 1941, indulging her adventurous spirit thusly for some 25 years, both in the US and Europe. The 200-page book is cheaply obtainable on bookfinder.com. In English.
* '''[http://www.assoc-amazon.de/egp/irproduct/1862543623?tie=UTF8&tag=hitchwiki-21&llinkCode=as2&ocamp=1638&creative=36742&acreativeASIN=1862543623 Hitching: tales from the byways and superhighways]''', by Kirsty Brooks. A collection of stories by hitchhikers, mostly Australians, hitching in Australia, the US, Europe and some random places. Some interesting stories. In English.
* In Russian there are a lot of books about hitchhiking, ''Praktika Volnyh Puteshestvyi'' by Anton Krotov being the most famous and according to many essential reading material for hitchhiking in [[Russia]] - if you read Russian that is.
* '''Off the map''' - A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off the Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off on the winds of the world. This story is told with genuine hope, and a voice that never loses its connection with the mysteries of life. [http://www.crimethinc.com/books/otm.html OTM].
