📚 Hitchhiking

The raised thumb’s whole culture: the postwar boom, the law-and-danger literature, and the journeys it made cheap.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject hitchhiking in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer	1996	32
	Hitch-hiker's guide to Europe	Ken Welsh	1972	13
	Round Ireland with a fridge	Tony Hawks	1998	10
	Carsick	John Waters	2014	7
	Hokkaido Highway Blues	Will Ferguson	1998	5
	The evidence for phantom hitch-hikers	Michael Goss	1984	4
	Iranian rappers and Persian porn	Jamie Maslin	2009	4
	In the rearview mirror	Lee Livingston	2011	4
	Roadside Americans	Jack Reid	2020	4
	Hitchhiking Around the World	Adam Cochran	2009	3
	The long hitch home	Jamie Maslin	2015	3
	Trio's trek	Mary Jaques-Aldridge	1955	2
	Walk the wide world	Donald Knies	1958	2
	Thumbprints	George Fetherling	1969	2
	Side of the road	Ben Lobo	1972	2
	The hitchhikers	Phil Wernig	1972	2
	West Africa for the hitchhiker	Fin Biering-Sørensen	1972	2
	The hitchhiker's field manual	Paul DiMaggio	1973	2
	Rule of thumb	Paul Coopersmith	1973	2
	Africa for the hitchhiker	Fin Biering-Sørensen	1974	2
	Moyen-Orient, Inde	Philippe Gloaguen	1976	2
	Le Québec sur le pouce	Yanick Villedieu	1978	2
	One for the road	Tony Horwitz	1988	2
	Hitchhiking in America	Dale Carpenter	1992	2
	Sea Legs	Rosita Boland	1992	2
	The Seagoing Hitchhiker's Handbook	Greg Becker	1993	2
	Autostop polski	Jakub Czupryński	2005	2
	Free as the Dolphins Travel	Penguino Rouge	2011	2
	...So I Did	Giulio Saggin	2011	2
	Ride the Storms	Rich Levy	2012	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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