Tunes - C. Country - Summer 2025 Reading Road Trip - LibGuides at DACC Library
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5. Tunes - C. Country
The fifth decision on your road trip is what kind of road trip tunes you'll be listening to! You'll have three road trip tune genres to choose from, and the third choice you can make is listening to Country tunes!
Complete the Country choice by reading any title that you feel fits this choice in any capacity, at any point in the story and recording the title on your Road Trip tracking sheet.
There are lots of ways to interpret this choice, so feel free to get creative! Some interpretations could include:
You can use any title that you’d like, but here are some suggestions to complete the Country choice.
Dolly Parton, songwriter by Dolly Parton (Libby eBook)
It's a Long Story: my life by Willie Nelson (Print)
Black Country Music: listening for revolutions by Francesca Royster (Libby eBook)
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (Print)
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (Print) (Libby Audio)
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (Print) (Libby eBook)
Prairie Fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Print)
Example by Example (I-Share Print) (I-Share Audio) (Libby eBook) (Libby Audio)