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===Books=== * ''All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life'', by [[Loren Eiseley]], 1975. {{ISBN|978-0803267411}} * ''American Travels of a Dutch Hobo 1923β1926'', by {{Interlanguage link multi|Gerard Leeflang|nl}}, 1984, {{ISBN|978-0813808888}}.<ref>{{cite book |title=American Travels of a Dutch Hobo, 1923β1926|isbn= 978-0813808888 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/americantravelso00leef |year=1984 |last1=Leeflang |first1=Gerard |publisher= Iowa State University Press }}</ref> * ''A Period of Juvenile Prosperity'' (2013) by [[Mike Brodie]], {{ISBN|978-1936611027}} * ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'' by [[John Hodgman]] - Humor book which features a lengthy section on hoboes, including a list of 700 hobo names which spawned an online effort to illustrate the complete list. * ''[[The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp]]'', by [[W. H. Davies]], 1908 * ''Bottom Dogs'', by [[Edward Dahlberg]] * ''Beggars of Life'', (1924), by [[Jim Tully]] * ''[[Evasion (book)|Evasion]]'' by Anonymous * ''From Coast to Coast with Jack London'' by "A-No.-1" ([[Leon Ray Livingston]]) * ''[[Hobo (book)|Hobo]]'', by Eddy Joe Cotton, 2002. {{ISBN|978-0609607381}} * ''The Hobo - The Sociology of the Homeless Man'', by [[Nels Anderson]], 1923. * ''[[Ironweed (novel)|Ironweed]]'' by [[William Kennedy (author)|William Kennedy]], 1983. A [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel, also adapted for a 1987 film (see below). * ''[[The Jungle]]'' by [[Upton Sinclair]] contains a section in which the main character, [[Jurgis Rudkus]], abandons his family in Chicago and becomes a hobo for a while. * ''[[Lonesome Traveler]]'', by [[Jack Kerouac]] ("The Vanishing American Hobo") * ''[[The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane]]'' by [[Kate DiCamillo]] * ''Muzzlers, Guzzlers, and Good Yeggs'' by [[Joe Coleman (painter)|Joe Coleman]] * ''[[Of Mice and Men]]'', by [[John Steinbeck]] * ''[[On the Road]]'', by Jack Kerouac * ''One More Train to Ride: The Underground World of Modern American Hobos'' by [[Clifford Williams (academic)|Clifford Williams]]. * ''Ramblin' Boy: The Letters of Steve Hoyt'' edited and with commentary by Daniel Leen, ISBN 0-9632912-9-7, publisher Ecodesigns Northwest Publishers * ''Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://erroluys.com/RidingtheRails.htm |title=The Great Depression β The Story of 250,000 Teenagers Who Left Home and Ride the Rails |publisher=Erroluys.com |date=1933 |access-date=May 7, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505084138/http://www.erroluys.com/RidingtheRails.htm |archive-date=May 5, 2013 }}</ref> by [[Errol Lincoln Uys]], (Routledge, 2003) {{ISBN|978-0415945752}} * ''Riding Toward Everywhere'' by [[William T. Vollmann]], 2008. {{ISBN|978-0061256752}} * ''[[The Road (London book)|The Road]]'' (1907), by [[Jack London]] * ''Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes'' by [[Ted Conover]] - Paperback: 304 pages, Publisher: Vintage (2001), {{ISBN|0375727868}} * ''Sister of The Road: The Autobiography of [[Boxcar Bertha]]'' - (as told to) Dr. [[Ben Reitman]] * ''[[Stumptown Kid]]'', By Carol Gorman and Ron J. Finley * ''Tramping on Life'' (1922) and ''More Miles'' (1926), by [[Harry Kemp]] * ''Tramping with Tramps'' (1899) by [[Josiah Flynt]] * ''Waiting for Nothing'', [[Tom Kromer]] * ''Wild Honey'' (1927), by [[Frederick Niven]] * ''[[You Can't Win (book)|You Can't Win]]'', by [[Jack Black (author)|Jack Black]] * ''[[John Patric#A Yankee Hobo in the Orient|Yankee Hobo in the Orient]]'', (1943), by [[John Patric]] * ''[[Down and Out in Paris and London]]'', by [[George Orwell]]
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