These are just a few of the books I wish I had on hand for an upcoming road trip. Alas, I’ll have to make do with (perfectly lovely) other volumes. But a girl can dream (a dream of reading way too many books)!

• ReAction! Chemistry in the Movies by Mark Griep and Marjorie Mikasen
• On the Air The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning
• Darwin’s Camera Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution by Phillip Prodger
• D.W. Griffith’s the Birth of a Nation A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time by Melvyn Stokes
• The Urban Experience Economics, Society, and Public Policy by Barry Bluestone, Mary Huff Stevenson, and Russell Williams
• Nightmare in Red The McCarthy Era in Perspective by Richard M. Fried
• Atlas of the Medieval World by Rosamond McKitterick
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History Four Volume Set Edited by Bonnie G. Smith
• The Basque Country A Cultural History by Paddy Woodworth
• Paris Tales Stories Translated by Helen Constantine
• Scotland’s Books A History of Scottish Literature by Robert Crawford
• A Dictionary of Creation Myths by David Leeming with Margaret Leeming
• Swing Along The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook by Marva Griffin Carter