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The Lincoln Highway Reading Order
Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway (2021) is the road novel that follows Emmett Watson, eighteen years old and just released from a work farm, who returns to Nebraska to drive his eight-year-old brother Billy to California to find their mother — only for two fellow work farm residents to stow away in the trunk and redirect the journey to New York City. Covering eight days in 1954 and structured around the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental road in America, it became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was praised as Towles's best novel.
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Amor Towles·2021·Start here — the complete standalone novel; a companion to but not a sequel to A Gentleman in Moscow or Rules of Civility.
The Lincoln Highway — Frequently Asked Questions
Is The Lincoln Highway a standalone novel?
Yes. The Lincoln Highway is a complete standalone novel with no sequels. Towles's other novels — Rules of Civility (2011) and A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) — are also standalones set in very different periods and places (New York City in 1938; Moscow from 1922 to 1954). They can be read in any order.
What should I read next after The Lincoln Highway?
Towles readers typically continue with A Gentleman in Moscow, his most celebrated novel — Count Rostov under house arrest in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow for thirty-two years. For readers who loved The Lincoln Highway's American road setting and its portrait of 1950s America, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, True Grit by Charles Portis, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain are strong companions.
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