This is a list of books and movies in which hobos and/or freighthopping are prominently featured or are a major plot device.BooksFiction
- Nelson Algren: Somebody in Boots and The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren
- Charles Ashleigh: The Rambling Kid
- James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice
- John Hodgman: The Areas of My Expertise (features a list of 700 absurd hobo names)
- Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums and On The Road
- Louis L'Amour: Hanging Woman Creek
- Dr. Ben Reitman: Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha
- Lucius Shepard: Two Trains Running
- Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
- John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
- James Blish: Cities in Flight (Actual hobos did not appear but the concept was central.)
- Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
Nonfiction
- Edward Abbey: The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
- Jack Black: You Can't Win
- Ted Conover: Rolling Nowhere
- Eddie Joe Cotton: Hobo
- Oscar Dexter Brooks: Legs: An authentic story of life on the road
- W.H. Davies: The Autobiography of a Supertramp
- Todd DePastino: Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
- Gaddis and Long (eds): Panzram: A Journal of Murder
- "Steam Train" Maury Graham: Tales of the Iron Road: My Life as King of the Hobos
- Woody Guthrie: Bound for Glory
- Louis L'Amour: Education of a Wandering Man
- Daniel Leen: The Freighthoppers Manual for North America
- Duffy Littlejohn: Hopping Freight Trains In America
- A-No-1 (Leon Ray Livingston): From Coast to Coast with Jack London
- Jack London: The Road
- Gypsy Moon: Done and Been: Steel Rail Chronicles of American Hobos
- Lloyd Morain: The Human Cougar
- Bill Palmini: Murder on the Rails
- Jim Tully: Beggars of Life
- : Riding the Rails:Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression
- Guitar Whitey: Ridin' Free
- Cliff Williams: One More Train to Ride
- Anonymous: Evasion
FilmsFiction
- Danger Lights: 1930 movie about a hobo who becomes a railroad engineer
- Wild Boys of the Road: 1933 drama about runaway youth, intended to scare kids away from hopping freights but had quite the opposite effect
- Sullivan's Travels: 1941 One of the greatest comedies, and tragedies, about the myth and reality of the hobo life,from writer/director Preston Sturges
- Emperor of the North Pole (also known as Emperor of the North): 1973 film starring Lee Marvin, Keith Carradine and Ernest Borgnine
- Hard Times: 1975 film starring Charles Bronson
- Bound for Glory: 1976 biographical drama about the life of Woody Guthrie
- Runaway Train: 1985 film starring Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as escaped convicts
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?: 2000 comedy
- Rail Kings: 2002 movie starring Robert Spediacci and Bobb Hopkins (incorrectly listed on IMDB and several other movie sites as a 2005 movie)
- "Ironweed":1987 film starring Jack Nicholson and Marel Streep. Follows a schizophrenic drifter.
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